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| Posted By: Adam Posted On: Dec 8, 2008 Views: 421 | Farming: The Way to Go? If you were given the opportunity to give it all up and start farming would you take it? Explain. |
| Posted By: darwin Posted On: Dec 8, 2008 Views: 417 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Sure, if you could make a living that way... If I inherited a million bucks, I probably would. Short of that, you cannot make enough money to live off unless you already own the land and the machinery. Farming is rapidly becoming (or already has become) an industrialized venture. Hobby farming for your own self sufficiency or small market selling is useful and admirable, but you must have supplemental or retirement income to do it. Back yard gardening is making a comeback and I think this will continue in a big way as people get sick of feeding/cutting large grass lawns. |
| Posted By: beans Posted On: Dec 8, 2008 Views: 401 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? I don't think it's an either/or situation. Anyone can have a victory garden-type set up - I do in a 2-room apt and it's totally awesome. But yeah, I would love to farm. Hard work, though. |
| Posted By: buckskinbass Posted On: Dec 9, 2008 Views: 395 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? An orchard would be the way to go. |
| Posted By: Adam Posted On: Dec 9, 2008 Views: 384 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Farming would be the way to go. I'm just asking because I found out several months that my family owns 34,000 acres of land and we were planning on moving back to the countryside away from everything else. Our plans are to have every individual family grow and cultivate their own garden and food while everyone, together, has to take care of the livestock. On our land, we have to windmills, two dams, plenty of grazing land, wood behind our house, and plenty of wilderbeasts who want to gobble up our livestock. |
| Posted By: jm Posted On: Dec 9, 2008 Views: 378 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? wow adam, that sounds amazing! i am curious, where is your land, generally speaking? |
| Posted By: Farmmer Posted On: Dec 9, 2008 Views: 360 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? 34,000 acres? What is that like bigger than the planet Errth!!!!1111 |
| Posted By: smog Posted On: Dec 10, 2008 Views: 349 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? the price of land will propably go up everywhere in the world, as i hear the world is shrinking (or was the population increasing?), so if not to farm, aquiring land is a very good idea at this point, if you haven't allready. and as price of food goes up, since people choose to feed their cars instead of the poor, farming will become more lucrative. have you noticed by the way, that alot of people these days are concidering small farming communities? its as if were trying to go tribal again, in this individualistic day and age. guess we're starting to realize the common good is only worth **** if people stand together. |
| Posted By: Adam Posted On: Dec 10, 2008 Views: 339 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Navajo Nation... Grandfather went to the President himself and asked him not to take the land, because it was for us... his children and his childrens children and all generations to follow. Crazy, right? I thought so too when I first heard about it. |
| Posted By: J)(el Posted On: Dec 10, 2008 Views: 333 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? not. corporate farms are more land efficient. this is important as space becomes more sought after. striking out on your own as a farmer you are certain to use tons of pesticides, weed killers and fertilizers. Not to mention fresh water in places where it is not naturally ocurring. Can anyone reconcile that with being green? Going organic? The carrots the size of a pinkie should be hot sellers. With the industrial revolution we already had a mass exodus from the agrarian lifestyle. it's a nice sentiment (my family had a multigenerational farm) but the realities of mortgages, taxes and land prices are sure to keep it that way. |
| Posted By: Adam Posted On: Dec 10, 2008 Views: 325 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Organic would in fact be the way to go. The foods are so much more nutritious. As for land, it's stupid that you must pay for such a thing. Reverting to tribal would be the way to go. Communism as it has been coined; but leaders of the past and present have given it such a bad name. Tribal, that's what we should return to. All of our land is in Arizona, sounds like it may not work, but it's actually perfect land to farm on. Our farm was working great when I was younger, but then everybody, the family, abandoned the land and now no one is living on it. But I made it my goal to return there to farm. |
| Posted By: beans Posted On: Dec 10, 2008 Views: 303 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Adam - how does the water thing work? (Forgive me, I know very little about Arizona. All I've ever seen of it was desert but maybe there are lush parts of it?) And if I may ask, what made your family leave in the first place? |
| Posted By: Rooster Posted On: Dec 11, 2008 Views: 292 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Adam, if you can, do it!!! Do it now before it's too late. Young people need to take back their interest in the land. It's hard work, mind you. My family has around 500 acres in Burgundy, France, in the Charolais cattle-raising region. Small farms, almost self-sustaining -- veggie patch, orchards, home-made everything, 2 milk cows for milk, butter and cheese, 2 beef cows for own consumption each year, 5-6 pigs for self consumption, chickens, a couple of lambs, cereals cultivated to make flour to feed the cows in the winter and straw for their bedding, hay cut once or twice a season, bailed and stored for winter feed, and cattle and sheep raising for income (tougher and tougher to live off of that however). Picking mushrooms in the fields in September, blueberries in the hedges, apples, dandelions for salads, chestnuts in the woods, fish in the river, cutting rods of hazelnut trees to make walking/cattle sticks, long working days in the summer, short ones in the winter, lean and mediterranean diet in the summer, more fat in the winter, helping neighbors out for big tasks, lending one another equipment... and the pride, and the roots, and nature's schedule. Sure beats playing on a Nintendo DS if you ask me. |
| Posted By: Adam Posted On: Dec 11, 2008 Views: 271 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? Reply to beans: Windmills and water wells. Just because it's desert, when in fact it is not, does not mean that there is no water. The windmills are powered by wind to pump water. We are also making it our decision on using solar and wind energy, because they are finally getting running water and electricity on the reservation; which I think is terrible, because all people do with great things is take them for granted. Water wells on the otherhand are pretty much everywhere on the reservation. All the water out there comes out of the ground. Why we moved? ... I don't know. Guess we all just kinda wanted more than what we were getting and eventually realized that our thirst for more made us sick, so now we've decided to move back. Reply to Rooster: It sounds like you've already got it made, have any tips for a beginner. |
| Posted By: sunshine girl Posted On: Dec 11, 2008 Views: 264 | RE: Farming: The Way to Go? lets see. the year I lived in Harrisonburg va which is Mennonite Central. I lived on a couple of acres of land with my dog and ex husband. it was a lot of fun in some ways. i had a flock of chickens and made a hideous attempt at an organic garden. i got a few gorgeous tomatoes some inedibly hot peppers and pure weeds and garbage from everything else. meanwhile the neighbor's Miracle Grow garden grew, well, like a miracle. I raised those chickens from babiesand got a total of 3 eggs, plus some bad scratches when it turned out that two of the chicks were actually roosters and not chickens. an incredible experience that was pretty fun and i wouldnt exchange. but it cured me of my delusions. i am squarely a city girl or recreational country girl only. if you are interested you should go work on someone else's farm for a year or two to get a REALLY good feel for it, get real experience behind you. and have them teach you how they run the business end of it. |
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