How is our Byzantine Village coming?

I've decided on chickens and beef cattle for my acreage.

I love eggs, chicken, and steak, so I'll then be set.

Also, I've started home brewing, so I also may have a small brewery operation going.

Just let me know when we're ready to make our mass exodus to the farmland, and I'll pack the family into the covered wagon and meet you there.

We could just start out with buying a whole town:

http://cgi3.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewUserPage&userid=bridgeville-by-kompolt

This one is in California though...

While natural beef is great (buffalo even better), sheep and goats don't require as much acerage.

Once you have fresh lamb - you won't be the same. And nothing beats goat's milk for making cheese (and CHEESE PASKHA...get a grip on yourself, man... :rolleyes: )
FDD

I will take that into consideration, but can make no promises that I will raise sheep and goat .

Maybe I'll just grow the ingredients that I need to make my beer, then I'll trade you all my beer for food. Sound like a plan?

In all seriousness. I think the major obstacle for something like this would be everyone agreeing on a state. I watched the Free State Project that was a group of libertarians wanting to move to a state and convert them to "free living". Well, it may have had a chance, but when they chose New Hampshire as the state, all the rugged Montana/Wyoming people said no way.

Just a thought.

I just keep thinking of steak and eggs, and my stomach is a rumbling.

No Commiefornia for me. It would be awesome to go through with this though. We could have our own schools, at least one local Monastery, and we would finally have the opportunity to build Churches without pews.

We need someone to grow the grapes and make the Altar wine though! I'll raise the dogs. If we do this in Florida or Lousiana we could even include an Alligator Farm.

Any volunteers to be be Cocoa Bean Farmers?

Since alligators have backbones, are they considered meat?

We have a local restaurant here that serves alligator bites as appetizers.

Maybe we could create a Byzantine Restaurant? All kinds of good ethnic foods, and a complete meat and dairy free menu for Fast days.

Michael

Why not just open a Fast Food Restaurant. We could call it McRusnak's.

How can a name like McRusnak's serve gyros, souvlaki, and bakala, in addition to pirohies, kapusta, kolachis, and kielbai?

Also, should we not try to stay away from any oil on fast days? Most fast food is fast cuz it is deep fried in oil.

I wonder how a deep fried mashed potato and cheese pirohi covered with applesauce would taste? hmmm....

How about "Antihellukrainia" for the restaurant name?

Church with now pews, fresh air, organic food, monastery, how can you say no to that!?

Where to get cheap fertile land though???

Kansas?

By FAST food I was refering to Fast food. Meaning No animal products. Puny portions. Etc.

Also, none of our businesses will be open on the Lord's day. And won't forget to observe Holy days on the True Calendar.

It's happened again

Here we are during the Great Fast and what happens - a perfectly reasonable interesting thread turns to
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just how do we do it ? has anyone got any idea ?

Anhelyna

I agree, no biz on Sunday.

We should try to make this also tourist friendly. There's nothing better than tourist money! Obviously, not at the expense of our values.

Come to our Byzantine Village, eat organic ethnic foods, spend a day working on the farm (believe it or not some people pay to do this), drink Nathan's Specialty Craft Beer!

I can see it now....

Or will the brewing be the expertise of the monks?

I'm ok with that.

Perhaps our Monks could make the chips!

Yesterday I got an idea for dessert Pirohi.
Sweet Potato, Marshmallow, and Brown Sugar filling fried in butter!

We still need volunteers to grow Cocoa Beans and to open an Ice Cream stand. (Yes that's Ice Cream Stand, not Ice Cream in a Pew)

MMmmmmm Ice cream stand (not pew)....lol.

What is the name of our village going to be? Private school or public? It'd be tough, but we should try to be located within a couple hours from a major city so we can sell our goods...but maybe land would be too expensive then?

So many decisions....