How many here are actual backyarders vs. Farmers?

[duckluv]

I'm a backyarder; lived on a farm a few years back, but everything was falling apart - as soon as we fixed one thing, another got broken. Now I have a tiny, half-acre yard, a good chunk of it taken up by the garden.

 

[silky_3699]

i am a farmer. 14,000 acre's.

 

[Longhorns&Chickens]

I'm a farmer. We own about 40 acres and lease about that many more.

I love all the critters, we have 30 head of registered Texas Longhorns, 2 horses, 3 dogs, 4 cats, 7 SL wyandottes, and more guppies than I can count, and I'm working on a pony, the kids need one

 

[MammaBear]

I envy you!!! I also cannot understand why people would live in the city. I would love to have 2000 acres and I would put my house right in the middle of it!! 14,000 would be even better.

Mrs. Fluffy Puffy :

Farmer (actualy Rancher...

) We live on about 2,000 acres out in the Texas Panhandle. It's very private, the closest neighbor is about 3-4 miles away. You cannot see their house for our house...no way!

I can have all the chooks I want without anyone telling me to get rid of them...okay just about anyone!

We raise cows, we of course have quite a few horses. Milkcows of course, and of course I raise chickens/guineas/peafowl etc.
Some people freak out when they come to our ranch, b/c it's so out in the country, but I wouldn't have it any other way!
They can't understand why on earth we want to live out in the middle of nowhere (the boonies)..what I can't understand is how they can possibly live in the city?

~ Aspen

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[nightowl223]

Rural backyarder. The nearest neighbor on one side is a quarter-mile away, a half-mile on the other, and nothing but overgrown woods behind us.

We have 3 1/2 acres, 18 pullets, 3 young roos (and 6 more roos needing re-homed or harvested

), 4 horses (only 2 are ours, though, horse-sitting the other 2), 2 dogs, several barn cats and a couple of spoiled inside cats, two good-sized side-yard gardens and several raised beds with everything from asparagus to tomatoes, a greenhouse, rain barrels, compost bins, fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and a collection of unfinished projects.

Wanting to add a goat to the menagerie, soon.

We're hoping to save enough for a down-payment on the land attached to ours

(that overgrown woods I mentioned) before it gets sold to someone else. Then we'll have room for even more critters!

In the meantime, just starting to sell fresh eggs

, and only getting enough goodies from the garden this year to consume/can/freeze for ourselves. The weather didn't cooperate very well

.

 

[P-Funk]

Upper lower middle class sub-rural. The closest stop light is 5 miles, but there's a new wallyworld now. Right in between the 2 stoplights. what?

 

[jennh]

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AMEN to that!!!!

 

[chicmom]

I'm also a backyarder. It's a pretty big backyard, a little over six acres, which seems huge to me because I was born and raised in the city with virtually NO backyard. Mine is mostly wooded. I just love it. I wish I was a farmer and had a big red barn though......

 

[kfacres]

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what's an ancer? City lingo for acre???

 

[kfacres]

Farmer here, lived in town while in college, worst time of my life..

Farm grain- 2500 acres- mainly focused on sheep and dairy cattle.. but also have beef, goats, dogs, and everything else people always want. O ya, can't forget about the poultry...