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[quote=Anonymous]My husband does this on a small scale in Bethesda, of all places. He has enough of a veggie garden that he can barely manage it and work full time. He tries to grow things we can't get in stores, for example, like Black Krim heirloom tomatoes, and French Charentais melons, which taste divinely. I wish he could grow my favorite fruit like apricots and peaches, but in this area it's hard to keep healthy stone fruit trees. We can't have hens because our property is too small for it to be legal (25ft setback on all sides for a coop), but we've rented chicks and hatched eggs and enjoyed looking after them.

You don't need a lot of land to do all this, OP. You DO need to go to an agricultural area to have livestock such as sheep, goats, horses or cattle, because no matter what land you have close to the city, it's not legal to keep larger livestock here. I dream of having sheep and getting dairy products. Total Heidi fantasy.

The biggest problem with this, personally, is travel. You need to install drip irrigation for your crops if you leave during the growing season, and it's prone to blockage and leaks, and  you can't protect your crops from weather if you're not there. If you have animals, you need someone to tend to them while you're away. It's just a lot of hassle. We travel regularly because our families are spread out across the globe, so a farm is not in our future. I do hanker after those little lambs, though... :-)

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