All great advice and wonderful resources!
But Ty if you can give us some parameters that would be good, because like Jessica alluded to, you're probably going to object to certain animals or protocols or whatever it may be.
Basically, the most critical principle is working with nature, not against her. Gentle nudges are ok, but brute coercion is so inefficient as to be laughable. In other words, don't plant blueberries up on top of a bluff when they want to be down in a bog with acidic soil and lots of moisture all the time. Don't try to raise more cattle than your land will support, don't bring in extra 'feed' (stored forage in this case) just to handle a handful's more head.
Beyond that there are some general guidlines.
Don't produce waste, make sure it is a closed system to the best of your ability, this should be possible, that's what nature is, doesn't mean it will happen right away though.
Be fairly small and diversified.
Raise lots of different plants, not just what you're going to eat, but what your livestock and wildlife want to eat too.
Keep lots of different livestock, learn how their wild counterparts would relate to eachother and mimic those interactions. IE use chickens to disperse cow pies and keep fly populations down.
Have good sources of water. If you're going to have a river, stream running through, find out what is upstream. You don't want your animals drinking water that's flowing by a factory or whatever other vector of pollution. Well's are great, ponds are great. You should have some kind of pond on your land and this pond ideally should support a full system ie: fish, frogs, insect larva, crayfish, egrets, etc. You don't want it breeding too many mosquitoes and you don't want it growing over with algae, or stagnant.
Be efficient with your work. That goes for most endeavors, but doubly for farming. Farming is a lot of work, that is no joke, but if you're efficient with your actions, you can have huge impact with your efforts. Likewise, being inefficient will make you feel like you're not getting anything done at all.
Ponder all the ways your livestock can find to kill themselves. Especially with smaller animals like baby chicks, doesn't take much for them to drown(though adult chickens will die this way too), or get their heads caught in something. Animals were not designed to live in human enclosures, it's not their fault they're always getting caught in and on things, and they mostly can't think so we have to do it for them.
Large animals have large mineral, food and water needs. Minerals are CRUCIAL to the health of large animals. Their mineral levels depend on the health and availability in your soil and forage. A good pasture should have dozens of kinds of grasses, legumes, wildflowers. These days a good pasture has ten+ varieties of forage, but wild prairies would have thousands of different species, each serving a function as food or medicine for these large ruminants at a given time. Get native seed for your pastures, it is becoming more and more common to find companies geared specifically toward your region, selling seed mixes.
Don't get stuck in a rut, always be considering ways you can increase your outputs, while reducing your inputs/efforts and maintaining quality. But NEVER lose sight of quality, farming can be a fairly smoothe endeavor if quality (read: health) is maintained, but just look at CAFO's for what happens when you sacrifice quality, that's when antibiotics come in.
Try to raise less bred animals. Animals that still have a reasonable share of their instincts intact. It's nice when fowl will hatch their own offspring. It's great when cows are sure footed and can make efficient use of less than optimal forage. Wilder animals are awesome too, deer, elk, buffalo, quail, pheasant, etc But they usually require different handling methods and protocols so figure that out before you attain them!
You're going to be in the middle of nowhere most likely so having critical equipment is a good idea.
Air compressors, saws, drills, battery charger for car batteries, tire patch kits. Basically whatever you need to maintain everything it takes to care for the farm. You can't have your animals going without food for too long because you couldn't move a giant round bale in winter because you had a flat tire or whatever stupid thing you can think of.
That is enough for now. Give us some more detail, like what animals are considered Paleo to you, because it doesn't make sense to type in a bunch of info only to have you say 'that's not paleo'
And anything else that's important to know.
