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Welcome.

The Texas Hill Country is my favorite part of the world, but it (and everything west of interstate 35) is a dry climate, no two ways about it. One could garden extensively, hunt, and drink well water/harvested water, but you'd have to deal with the constraints of rocky rangeland.

I'm wondering if somewhere in the piney hills of East Texas might satisfy more of your needs/desires.

Wherever you settle, you can get information from the Extension Service (http://agrilifeextension.tamu.edu/) about horticulture, gardening, water harvesting, livestock, wildlife management, and a lot more, some of it specifically geared for "newly rural" folks .