How am I going to do it??

[duckncover]

I am so sick of dreaming about living on a farm. I want my flock so badly. I would do anything to live on a tiny farm with a small flock of birds and maybe a potbelly pig. I just don't know how I am going to get there. I can't even find places that are zoned to allow farm animals any more. I just wish everything would fall together for me so I can start living the life that everyone else on here is living!

 

[Michael OShay]

I am so sick of dreaming about living on a farm. I want my flock so badly. I would do anything to live on a tiny farm with a small flock of birds and maybe a potbelly pig. I just don't know how I am going to get there. I can't even find places that are zoned to allow farm animals any more. I just wish everything would fall together for me so I can start living the life that everyone else on here is living!

I have no idea what your income status is, but if you can't afford to buy a farm, perhaps you could rent a farm home. You might try looking at one of the online sites that lists farm homes for rent in your area such as http://homes.trovit.com/for-rent-farmhouse-pa. Good luck in getting moved onto a farm. )

 

[MeepBeep]

As Michael said, we don't know your financial situation, and if you can't find anything local you might need to relocate... There are places to be found by you need to be in a position to afford and grab them... We watched and had automatic notification setting plugged in for our ideal property at realtor.com and jumped on the place we are in within hours of it being listed for rent, and upon looking at it we made our intentions that we really wanted to rent it very clear...

Beyond that there are plenty of places down south and out west (or even very rural up north) that will allow livestock and the cost of living is generally lower, but many of those location don't have many job opportunities so that has to be factored in...

 

[jaide]

You know how I found mine? I was living in a mobile home with a tiny yard. I put an ad on Craigslist asking if anyone had extra area in their yard they would rent me for a flock of chickens and a medium size garden. I got 2 replies from older couples who were very willing to let me plant a graden (share produce less yard work =no rent. I love older people) and then got an email about a house with about an acre he owned and would we like to look at it. It's an old farmhouse and it needs a lot of work. But my rent is cheap any improvements to the home come off my rent and he gave me about an acre and a half. I now have a pretty good size flock of chickens and am hoping to get goats this spring. Sometimes you have to put it out there and the universe will help you. But you have to compromise.

 

[donrae]

No offense, but nothing just fell together for us to get where we are. It took a sound financial plan, education to back that plan, sacrifice to stick with that plan. Our first acreage didn't meet our goals, so we moved 130 miles over the mountains to find what we liked better. Our current homestead has been okay, but it's by no means our goal. We're still working towards our goal, life has thrown us some challenges that have set things back a few years. Our plan now is to be here about 4 more years, then look for our forever home. We're in our early 40s, so this isn't an overnight process.

You say you would do anything. So, what's your first obstacle? Location or financial?

 

[Michael OShay]

No offense, but nothing just fell together for us to get where we are. It took a sound financial plan, education to back that plan, sacrifice to stick with that plan. Our first acreage didn't meet our goals, so we moved 130 miles over the mountains to find what we liked better. Our current homestead has been okay, but it's by no means our goal. We're still working towards our goal, life has thrown us some challenges that have set things back a few years. Our plan now is to be here about 4 more years, then look for our forever home. We're in our early 40s, so this isn't an overnight process.

You say you would do anything. So, what's your first obstacle? Location or financial?

X2 on donrae. We are finally closing on a farm in NW Montana this coming Monday; debt free with no mortgage and with the land and freedom to do whatever we want to do on it in terms of livestock or agriculture. This is the forever home that we've been working toward (and we're a couple of decades older than donrae). ) As donrae said, this has come about by planning, education, and investment.