Your farm?

[megg902]

Northeast Louisiana!

Our home and yard sit right in the middle of a 40 acre leased out pasture. We have about 2 acres to work with of our own. 3 dogs, 2 cats, 16 new layers. Also have 5 horses in a different location. Considering getting into meaties but havent finished all my research yet. And my son is begging for a sheep to practice his "mutton busting" on.... but thats a different post.

Likes: Im a wuss when it comes to cold so the weather here works for me. Very mild winters. Usually plenty of rain fall all year, although right now we are in drought conditions. Nearest neighbor is about 3/4 miles through some grown up woods. No crazy kids stealing my garbage cans!!

Dislikes: I want the pasture around me!!!! But thats not gonna happen for another 2 years.

Also it can get too hot. Its not so much the temp that I dont like but the humidity that goes with it. 90 is completely doable but when you throw in some 80% humidity it is rough. Radio just said it was 92 out but feels like 98. Guess its better than the 98 but feels like 104 from a couple days ago.....

 

[becky3086]

Just over an acre, half of it woods. In Georgia. Nice sized pens in the back were here when I got here. We have added a lot more.
Likes: It is not too cold in the winter...usually--this winter didn't count
Dislikes: Red clay EVERYWHERE, no topsoil. Entirely too hot in the summer and not enough rainfall

We have small gardens where ever I can fit them in, fruit and nut trees. Lots of chickens, ducks, quail and one pheasant, (cats and dogs). I am raising about 25 meat birds this year-12 are already butchered. I am constantly hatching quail and will be butchering as soon as they are ready (the ducks and pheasant are "pets" so far).

 

[MyFirstFarm]

Four acres, half of it woodland. We're on Vancouver Island off the southwest coast of British Columbia.

When we bought it last year it was virtually all woodland, the house got no direct sunlight. We cleared about a 1/2 acre and turned it into pasture (it also contains my fenced 30 x 30 foot veggie garden) and that's where the meaties will roam in their tractor when they outgrow the brooder. We also raise pigs each summer for meat. They have their own 1/2 acre paddock that's part grass and part woods.

Love the community and the support here for small, local farmers. It's a great climate too (I don't mind the rain at all; I'm quite sensitive to cold so I prefer our mild wet winters). It's a lush, beautiful part of the world!

The downside is there is so much to do and we don't own a tractor or much in the way of tools, so we do a lot of it by hand and that is slow going. Our very rocky soil makes any task involving digging a major effort. Or we save up for a bout of landscaping with hired help - that part is always fun!

 

[krcote]

New Hampshire- 3/4 of an acre in a suburban neighborhood. We are micro farming! 50 meaties in a 10x12x2 tractor inspired by Joel Salatin. 20 laying birds, Square foot gardening, compost system and a small orchard/fruit patches in the front yard round out our farmlet.

Likes: 4 seasons.
Dislikes: Winter is very long, summer is very short!

Meaties far right, garden left, layers farther left out of the pic.

Layers

Compost bins

 

[LilyD]

Vermont we free range our egg layers and have a 80 by 30ish pen area for the meaties to be in. We have found that if we take the food they should have in the morning and night and scatter it in the outdoor pen they eat it much slower and we have less problems with flip than we did just feeding them from a feeder.

I like the extra space to have room for the animals I want to keep.

Sometimes the zoning regulations still become a pain. We have to be a certain amount of feet from the center of the road and a certain amount of feet from our neighbors. The neighbors is easy since our nearest one is over 450 feet away, but the 80 feet from the road means I can only have it in my back yard which is where my horses are. Makes for much more juggling that way.

 

[BarredBuff]

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We are in Kentucky, and not really a farm. I prefer Homestead because its just our central location we have different areas on our 5 acres and they all have a different purpose. The only things I dont like is that its mainly hills and I havent got a space for a goat or a patch of wheat. We have lots of greenery, overgrown in some spots. But I think the birds like it. All of my birds free range at one point. It can get very hot and it can get very cold.

 

[mommabrowncow]

Oregon Coast

Rain, rain and more rain. As much as I dislike it, it keeps my state a beautiful shade of green all year long, which I love. I also love the fact that we see snow only every few years for maybe a day or two and an inch deep at the most. If Oregon was maybe 15 degrees warmer all year I would have no complaints at all.

We have about an acre fenced on a wooded hillside. Freerange 23 chickens for eggs and meat and also have 2 American Guinea hogs who are on a personal mission to excavate giant holes everywhere. Everytime I discover a new "project" I imagine them out there with their hardhats and heavy equiptment, getting to work. As for my chickens I tried Cornish X last year and didnt like them at all. They tasted good but seemed like crazed little raptors, un-natural somehow. Anyway I am trying Delawares this year and so far like them much better. Butcher time is in 2 weeks.

I have only been "farming" for a little over a year but am enjoying it so much. It's a lot of work but the animals always can make me laugh with whatever crazy antics are going on.

 

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[redsoxs]

North Central Kansas...9 acres

Likes: lots of wildlife, peace and serenity, gardening, freedom to do what I want without worrying about neighbors.

Dislikes: rock ledge below the soil makes establishing trees more of a challenge. Also lots of chicken-stealing predators.

Final verdict: would never live in town!

 

[Oregon Blues]

Central Oregon.

Likes: Desert, dry weather, no mud, no fleas, no ticks, lots of sunshine, constant activities and sports, festivals, and outings available, great shopping with no sales tax. Gorgeous scenery, 3 ski mountains

Dislikes: cost of gasoline. Free range chickens would be an instant coyote buffet.