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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My husband has this wild idea about us moving to the country and living off the land. We have always been city people and planned to move to the suburbs when our kids are older, but he has been talking about it the last couple of weeks. He wants to move to an area - even out-of-state where we can get 2-3 acres of land. He wants to grow our own food and maybe have some chickens. He is a great cook and has really been getting into cooking things from scratch, growing your own food, and living off the land. I thought it was just a wild idea but it’s becoming an almost daily conversation. I’m not even sure how I feel about it. [/quote]

He's an idiot. I could understand it if he grew up on a farm, but he clearly has no idea what he's talking about. To start with, you are not going to be able to have a viable farm on 2-3 acres- even a real hobby farm is going to be 10 times that big. Farming is miserable back breaking work and he wants to do it on a subsistence scale likely ruling out anything tool designed to make it less miserable. Do you plan on working to buy food when he inevitable produces far less than you need (not to mention money for utilities, clothing, transportation...)? The further out you go the less access you will have to good jobs and jobs in general if you go rural enough. You also are likely to have trouble getting an internet connection good enough to work remotely on if you are too rural (Hughes is miserable and unworkable and standard in rural America). [/quote]

I think OP means that he wants enough space for a vegetable garden. That can easily be done on 2-3 acres.

My aunt lives in FL on 1 acre. She has a big vegetable garden and grows produce year round. [/quote]

My auntie in FL puts a couple of gators up in the freezer for the winter.[/quote]

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