Reddit reviews Fences for Pasture & Garden

That's news to me, but I never asked many questions about it from the folks I knew that did Peace Corps.

One alternative is the Student Conservation Association. You can join a backcountry trail crew. You don't really need any skills, but it can be an opportunity to develop some skills. I believe it's a 9 month commitment on a ten day rotation, of which 7 days will be on the trail, usually in the backcountry, but sometimes in the front country.

If you wanted to learn basic skills to be comfy and healthy out there, it'd be to learn how to pitch a tent taught using all guy lines, backcountry sanitation, water purification and how to protect your filter in freezing temperatures, and how to keep your gear and especially down insulation dry. Those are the shortcomings I observed when working alongside their crews.

Since it's so long, I'd get a few books to learn from while you're out there. I like some of the ultralight backpacking books to teach you how to apply skills when you need to cover some serious ground, which is very helpful when you have to walk far into the backcountry, and even more so when you have to carry tools in addition to your personal gear and a weeks worth of food. Add a couple survival books, nature field guides, a knot book and a fencing book, and I think you'll be in very good shape.

I fenced 1.7 acres two years ago. I don't know what your budget is but anything more than a "field fence" made of 14 gauge wire was going to be prohibitively expensive. A field fence consists of h-braces on the corners and between the runs depending on the distance. These are made of 8" diameter pressure treated posts. Between the h-braces, t-posts keep the wire running along the contour of the ground and your fence line. The fence wire will keep small animals enclosed but not chickens. For grown goats you'll need a single electric wire on top, which will be easy to place on top of the field fence.

For 1.7 acres, it was about $4,000 for all the materials. I live in Hawaii, which complicates things because you have to drill/jack-hammer almost every post hole. To pay someone to do it would have brought the cost up to ~9-13,000. Considering the rock and jungle I had to deal with, I would think that's a worst-case scenario cost.

I found this book to be invaluable in choosing a fence type and building it. I highly recommend you get started by reading it cover to cover.
https://www.amazon.com/Fences-Pasture-Garden-Gail-Damerow/dp/088266753X

[Edit] This is what my wire looks like: https://www.ruralking.com/red-brand-field-fence-1047-12-11-47-x330-monarch-knot-70038.html