> All of that said, a lot of the negativity directed toward anyone who has the dream of growing their own food is often coming from a conventional mindset. The

> All of that said, a lot of the negativity directed toward anyone who has the dream of growing their own food is often coming from a conventional mindset. The most I saw was mostly "well fuck you mister rich guy that can not only afford a house but enough space to do so and have the job to pay for that hobby"... not anything related to farming methods > If nothing else, you learn first-hand the challenges (and joys) of growing food, become more connected to the world that sustains us, and maybe gain a better appreciation for the people who work really hard for very thin margins to keep us all fed. I've lived on a "farm" (it had a bit of everything, grain, fruit trees, cucumbers etc) that was around 10 hectares. It went from "good living" (actually affordin new-if-cheap car etc.) to "going by" to my father basically selling land for development and getting "normal" job because it just wasn't paying. Frankly I think current subsidies structure just made it worse and worse because farming on low scale is near-impossible to make profitable and even bigger ones live on small profit margins as stuff from subsidies just immediately gets burn on fertilizer and other stuff. But yeah if average person did a year of farming and a year of designing and making something difficult we'd live in far less annoying stuf