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I'm doing it with almost none of the modern technologies. Loving it so far, but it definitely isn't for profit. Farming is a losing business these days, few mak
by _heimdall 3y ago
I'm doing it with almost none of the modern technologies. Loving it so far, but it definitely isn't for profit. Farming is a losing business these days, few make profit that isn't effectively living off of government subsidies.
I wouldn't trade it for the world at this point though. Its a very strange, and satisfying, experience to raise, butcher or harvest, and cook food that you raised on farm.
- andoando 3y agoHow long does it take you in a day? I had saved up a good amount of money (before losing it all lol, where I could do this). I was thinking about buying some nice land, setting up an aquaponics farm, and just running some solar farms/generators. No fret from me if you want to do it all by hand, but there really ought to be a middle ground between living as if it was the 1800s and working 8-10 hours day at a desk.
- _heimdall 3y agoIt very much depends on what you want to grow/raise and how you want to manage it. If your goal is to feed your family, you can pretty easily do that with a few hours of good work in a day when its all setup. We don't do absolutely everything by hand, but we definitely avoided many of the modern approaches. We have 13 cows, 9 chickens and 20 chicks that just hatched, and a small garden (~3500 sq ft). There's always certain jobs that take all day or multiple days, like cutting our fields (~50 acres), planting/harvesting, and butchering a pig was a huge undertaking given that we've never done anything like it before. On average, I'd say we put it 6-8 hours a day split between two people, with the occasional days of both working 8-10 hours each.