I often drop by and read a bit, but thought its time to join in. We have a couple of acres in a tiny hamlet, an ancient apple orchard which I renovated in 1990 and a new orchard with about 175 various fruit trees, mainly rare apple trees which were planted about four years ago. There has been an apiary between the orchards since 1997. Having worked away a lot, we came home for good in 2010, chickens came soon after and more dogs. Our business is in photographic production.