Day one

This is my first and very first experiance with blogging. I hope to share with others how I am learning to create a urban homestead in the middle of the bay area. We are luckly enough to be in an unincorporated city so we have less laws than others do but I feel that creating a urban homestead is possible for anyone.
Let me tell you a little about myself and my family. I am married to a wonderful man that puts up with all of my strangness. I have 2 fantastic children. My son Justin is the oldest he is 17 and leaving for Basic Training on May 19th. Go ARMY.
My daughter is 12yo. She has some difficulties that no little girl should have to deal with but I guess I will tell more about that later.
We also have Deuce a siberian huskey
6 cats and 1 kitten that we are fostering for Friends of Fairmont Animal shelter
1 quinea pig
2 red ear slider turtles
2 pygmy goats
2 chickens
25 rabbits
I raise rabbits for show and food. Yes I eat my rabbits and do all of the butchering, cleaning and cooking. I will also eat my chickens, goats and I have thought about the turtles. When I say that i am creating an urban homestead that is exactly what I mean. My goal is to raise all the food needed for my family here on my property. We will get milk from our goats after we rebreed, eggs and meat from chickens, meat and fur from rabbits and of course my garden which has been started finally.
No I will not eat my cats or my dog. I think everything else is fair game.
There are many other interesting things happening in my life. Sarah adoption will be finalized in August and we hope to add a sibling group of younger children to our home by the end of the year.
Tomorrow we leave for Monterey for a rabbit show. I am showing American blue and whites and my daughter is showing Californians. Wish us luck