How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

[FiveAcres]

Soon to be backyarder, just outside the city limits..... ready to hear the rooster crow

 

[mommas chickens]

Backyarder, I live out in the sticks but only on an acre so I only have kids, chickens, cats, and a basset hound who has recently started thinking shes a hen.lol.

 

[Mac in Wisco]

This my backyard:

 

[sonally]

Backyarder. One acre.. somewhat suburban-rural area. Our town has a great "Right -to Farm" by-law. So I could be a farm.... if i have tiny animals.... and a tiny barn ! But ,we are SO backyard vs Farm... we don't even have a truck! We do have one rusted disabled car in the driveway with dirt and weeds growing around it.... does that make us farm-y?

This should be a poll or something, so we will have an actual percentage!

 

[sonally]

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"farm" !

 

[Mac in Wisco]

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Am I a farmer? Five acres of that is mine. I keep 2500 hens and a small vegetable garden. I sell a couple thousand dollars of eggs a week though our organic cooperative. I don't own a tractor and I don't plant crops. Sometimes I make small quantities of hay with a scythe, most of the the time I have neighbors cut and bale the few acres we have in hay. I sell the manure to the neighbors who use it to fertilize the organic crops you see in the background.

I always tell our organic certifying agent that I'm not so much a farmer as a poultryman...

 

[pdsavage]

backyarder....
Heck I don't even live in a town its considered a village and zoned for agriculture.

Most lots are big here mine is almost an acre.More and more people are getting chickens,there is also cows,horses,goats and rabbits.

 

[BantamoftheOpera]

Backyarder working up to hobby farmer

 

[areyoumymother]

I'm a backyarder on a farm. LOL

I'm a city girl with almost 3 acres in a lil town (Pop. 600) about 30 miles outside of Dallas, just moved here about 2 years ago.

Have always wanted chickens so naturally they have been my first 'farming venture' thus far.

I have aspirations of getting a cow and some goats, not interested in horses tho, they are beautiful creatures just seems like they are more maintenance than I can handle, I am a recently transplanted city girl after all.

I plan on having a garden next spring, I need to create raised beds as our clay soil is not conducive to a productive vegetable garden.

I do have an old barn built in the 60's that has seen much better days and is more nostalgic than functional. It creeks and moans, kids say it is haunted, makes for great Grandpa story material (if/when we are blessed with Grandkids)

 

[Dar]

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LOL thats funny...

I am a total backyarder