How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

[afey1]

Backyard .... 1 acre... 27 Chickens, 6 - 11 weeks old, 6 - 8 weeks, & 2 - 1 week old.... 5 Dogs, and a beautiful size garden...

 

[EastSideEggs]

We're an extremely small backyarder in Providence , RI

 

[DKRickey]

Backyarder... on the edge of city limits with only 1/4 acre! Six girls roaming around and take every opportunity to get inside the house too!

 

[Erebus]

I live on a 5.5acre block in a rural zone but it's not a farm. It's a ramshackle used-to-be farmlet with no other animals other than fowl and the pet cats.

 

[chickenbythesea]

we're backyarders... would love more land (we live rural) around us but it's all owned by a rich doc who won't sell. We've got an acre and a quarter but would love about 10... we'll probably have to move to get it. Land by the ocean (here anyways) is very expensive.

 

[Niss]

Backyarder...although Hubby just got a tractor last wk--does that change things?
We have one rural acre and plans for growing our chicken feed in a nieghbor's field and hand harvesting some for household use.

 

[Darlasmum]

Small backyard- er here with 3 hens. Thats at least a dozen eggs a week. They get "out door" time on my days off.

 

[Kudzu]

Farmer....(think Green Acres)

 

[Desert Plum]

Backyarder though for a Southern California spot, it is in semi-rural/edge of suburban area.

Parental unit and I live just over a 1/4 acre with six raised beds (four built two more to go), some chickens and mini LaMancha goats on the way.

I am cutting down plants/trees to make room for anything edible I can plant as I like useful plants. A blood orange tree is being taken out so the goats have a larger play area in the back. The front space needs raised beds for edible flowers, native plants and just other pretty stuff that isn't yucky palm trees or cypress (soooooo sick of cypress!

) but attracts Bees/hovering flies.

Once those go up I will be seriously considering adding Bees in the mix. I dubbed us urban farmers....almost...kind of...getting there?

 

[awesomefowl]

We have four acres, and I consider myself a farmer: I have chickens I raise for eggs, and bantam Silkies I breed for..fun and fluff, and two sheep I'm hoping will be the start of an exemplary meat flock. Oh, and the goat.

I LOVE farming! Our property consists of lawn, old farm buildings, brush, weeds, and a teeny little pine snippet of pine woods. Perfect for sheep.