I also agree that unless you have commited yourselves to this property, you BARELY have enough land to keep one goat, never mind two, without supplementing their feed. Look for at least 5 acres, 10 or more would be better. As suggested above, you can probably rent out the land you aren't using - supposing the fences are in good shape, and the land is needed - don't absolutely count on it. If there is a neighbor with the equipment who is willing to do it, AND if the grass is not too full of weeds and scrub trees, you may be able to get it hayed for a share of the bales - otherwise, you'll have to pay for the haying, but it would probably be cheaper than buying, as long as you can store it conveniently for your goat(s). It takes a bigger tractor than you would think to pick up and carry one of the round bales to where you want it. You WILL probably need to get a tractor - having a bush-hog, tiller or cultivator/disc, snow plow, front-end loader, box-blade, etc., will all come in handy at some point, and some of them will be necessities - BUT they all cost, need maintenance and need to be stored. While you can get these used - old John Deere's don't die, they just get sold for an upgrade - it's not cheap. If you are more than 6-8 miles out of the nearest shopping town, you had better count in a lot more time and gas to do your shopping, and you probably won't be running out for impulse buys. Factor in the price of gas - I doubt it will go down much, and it may well go up again. As well, if you want pizza, etc., you will make it yourself or go get it - it won't be delivered. You will probably need a car and a truck - to haul fencing stuff, feed stuffs from the feedstore, pull the trailer, etc., so factor in the costs of 2 vehicles and their insurance and gas/diesel. You really do need both - unless you are good friends with a neighbor who keeps a spare truck you can borrow - you and your husband may need to be off the property in different directions, or need the truck for fencing, etc. all at the same time on the same day. A tractor can substitute for a truck on the farm, and you can accept that your car is a working vehicle, purchasing accordingly, and get by with a car or SUV, but 2 means of transport is nicer. SUV's do guzzle gas after all. Your goat lady may have told you, but goats are consumate escape artists, and if they get out, they do like to walk on cars. You will need good fencing - probably electromesh, as they can slip between the wires of a conventional electric fence. Does need to be bred so they produce milk - you do NOT want to keep a billy yourselves, unless you get a MUCH larger place - their odor will show up in the milk. You will have to recognize when the doe is in season and be able to take her to a billy to be bred, so you will need access to a compatable billy. What are you going to do with the kid(s)? If female, they can be added to your milking herd - but you then have to be careful of the numbers you can carry on the land and can deal with comfortably. If males, is there an auction house to take them to to be sold, will you get then butchered for your own use, or is there another market for them? I am sure there are more considerations not listed here, which others may point out. Try asking on a homesteading forum, or reading a few homesteading books, to get a few more ideas of what it entails. Good luck in what you decide to do.

Most people who successfully leap into a new thing like farming would try to do it as a hobby first. After that hobby starts to pay for its self and you believe that if you devoted your full time to it that you could make a living off of it... Only then would it be an actual GOOD idea to become a full-time farmer. It may actually be very hard to get a loan for a farm if you don't have a business plan or the equipment or an agricultural job to use as a reference that you would be capable of farming on your own. I recently bought a house. My credit score is very good, my income is better than it needs to be for the loan and I had plenty of money to put down a full 20% payment. Still, with today's loan market they had me jump through so many silly hoops to be absolutely sure that I was safe for them to give a loan to. Generally there are several checks but this time it was quite ridiculous. I imagine that for a high risk business loan the requirements would be even higher.

this is a pretty local question.. for a world wide audience ... especially when you dont really tell us what you mean by 'larger' ... if it were me.. i would visit the nearest one or two .. TOP LEVEL nurseries.. and ask them what they can ORDER IN.. for spring delivery ... this is the time of year.. they are doing such.. and frankly.. that is how you get what you want .... in the size you want ... none of this.. waiting around and hoping bigboxstore stocks them ... also.. perhaps a new post .. to attract others back .. on what options you might have.. since you really didnt talk about that either ... i am presuming you might not want 'some sort of apple' .... and finally.. the bigger the tree.. the harder it will take the transplant.. and the harder it will be for a novice to have it survive ... if you are doing this yourself.. i would suggest nothing bigger than about 6 feet ... after the pot is sunk in the ground ... if you are paying a pro to do it.. the sky is the limit ... but the bigger the transplant.. the more important PROPER watering will be.. so when its all said an done.. come back and learn how to water it properly .... good luck ken

oh, I may have to check that out. Along with the white bearded, I have some Siberian Iris (that I thought I killed when I replanted last year, but they came back, only to have the deer chomp on them!) I also have some nice dark purple Louisiana Iris that love the wet spot at the bottom of my stone steps. Iris do so well, that when I thinned mine out last year and put the scraps in the compost pile, I now have about 15 sprouting out from that pile. Along with some mystery vegetable. I think parsnip from Thanksgiving. And yes, Buford is next to Sugar Hill. I am very close to Sugar Hill, about 1/2 mile west of Peachtree Industrial Road north of SR 20.