Your farm?

[ladyride]

East Tn We have 28 acres in total. 3.5 acres cleared & beautiful the other 25 wooded & natural.

Likes being able to have my chickens , dogs have an acre fenced yard to run & play in . Having a garden again to provide me organic food that doesn't cost me an arm & leg to have.

We do have some really good neighbors . They aren't located close in proximity. Dislikes : having a hour to drive to work , or to any real shopping area that isn't dollar general. But I will take this over the city any day.

We do have mild winters , but lord have mercy the summers sometimes are hotter than blazes. The pace of life is so much nicer living here. We have our share of predators no doubt my biggest battle has been mice.

When designing the coops we kept all of them in mind, as we have to protect our garden from the rabbits & deer. It has been a huge learning curve on many levels . But I am loving it.

Now if I can just find a good mouser.

 

[Peruvian]

Southern VT. We're not a commercial farm. We have 10 acres, about 3 cleared. We live next to a 100 acre parcel of woods. Our closest full time neighbor is 1/4 mile away. We have a decent sized (70x100 ft garden), berries, apple trees, and raise 50-60 broilers in the summer.

part of our garden

blueberries

likes: skiing right out the back door, 70% of our town is national forest, great place to raise kids.

dislikes: tourists keep prices around here make it seem like we live in NYC.

 

[Teeah3612]

Wild Wonderful West Virginia... I love the mountains and the seasons! Wouldn't live anywhere else.

Dislikes...Right now we live in Clendenin, my horse lives in Alum Creek, and my farm is in Cottageville.

Soon to be like...In November we will all be in one place (Cottageville) and I can really get started on my farm. We bought 33 acres and are building a house! With all the critters we have we need it. One horse, one rabbit, three dogs, and seven cats.

Another like is that there are no zoning regulations to worry about and my nearest neighbor will be my 23 year old son

 

[Teeah3612]

I should add that my DH says no chickens or any other critters until we actually live on the farm.

 

[jaj121159]

We live in NE Nebraska on 32 acres. We have some pasture woods and waste land (Nebraska term for creek bottom).

Likes:
Several old buildings I have enjoyed converting to coops. Plenty of pasture for broiler tractors. Neighboring farm house over a 1/4 mile away and next closer neighbor is a half-mile. 160 irrigated quarter to the east and 128 acre irrigated field to the west. We live six miles from the nearest town and 15 miles from a big-small town (24,000). We enjoy our creek and our pond. Shooting pheasants and deer in the backyard. Plenty of room for chickens and dogs.

Dislikes:
Too many farm cats. Can't free-range the layers because of the dogs, cats, coons and coyotes. Kubota tractors are a piece of junk. First 3 years here I was overwhelmed by everything, but now I realize it was because of my chemo and Leukemia. Weeds, noxious and otherwise.

 

[brandislee]

Wild Oaks Poultry, East Central Minnesota, just under 3 acres. I have a large garden (just over 50x50, and I want to expand it more), 23 layers, and raised out some broilers this past spring and am looking to get more for fall. I used a tractor and basically tractored them around the 3/4 acre portion of our property that is nice lawn, because my husband won't let me do anything else productive with it. In fact, one of the most contentious things in our marriage is our view on grass and lawn- I hate grass unless it's there for livestock to eat and I think mowing is a waste of time and resources, but he loves lawn, worries about what the neighbors would think, and likes to mow. So we compromise... There's grass on much of the rest of the property, too, but it's more wooded so the grass is thin and much of it will either become fruit orchard or poultry pens or goat pens or SOMETHING in the future. But he keeps his lawn, as long as I can tractor broilers on it... and after he saw how super green and lush the grass got after all that fertilizer, he was all for it!

Sorry about that tangent...

Likes: enough rain to keep things green without having to water the grass (and don't need to water the garden much), amazing topsoil layer with a good amount of sand mixed in, and then sand below, so digging is simple as long as you can avoid the tree roots, lots of beautiful established oak, maple, and black walnut trees for shade and wind breaking. Property included three apple trees, a grape vine, a crabapple tree, and a rhubarb patch when we bought it. I love the climate in the summer, as it seldom gets much above 90 and, while more humid than our previous home in CA, it's not as miserably humid (normally- last week was a HUGE exception) as where we grew up in NC Kansas/SC Nebraska. We're 6 miles south of a small community, but only 35 minutes from the city. Red Wing crocks are easy to find (I ferment a lot...).

Dislikes: WINTER (boo....) is way too long and way too cold and snowy. I hate snow and cold, so I stay inside. Then I get stir crazy and get cabin fever. There are almost too many trees on our property- the garden BARELY gets enough sun, and it's in about the sunniest spot on the property. We're live too close to the highway.

There's pics and stuff on my blog- www.crunchythriftycool.blogspot.com

 

[yinepu]

A hair north of Central Texas

lots of limestone.. which means the soil is very hard to dig into and most garden plants are not happy without lots of soil amendments .. wild turkey.. cactus.. deer.. and drought!

dislikes:... the drought.. i do wish it would rain.. I can actually deal with the heat pretty well (no AC running)... but rain would be nice.. would like to have grass for more than a couple of months before it turns dry and crunchy.. the rare and occasional cold weather.. luckily our winters are pretty mild and short

likes.. all of my relatives are thousands of miles away.. and I presume they are dead lol... cows for neighbors.. no pollution to speak of.. so we have very blue skies and you can really see the stars at night.. mild winters (and i still think it's funny that when we do manage to get a dusting of snow that the state pretty much shuts down).. lots of wildlife and being a hermit in general.. it's so nice not to have neighbors close by sticking their noses into my business.. i dont have to deal with them or their kids.. the cows usually stay where they belong.. so it's much nicer than living in a city or small town

 

[NevadaRon]

10 acres in NW Nevada. This is high desert country - about 4500 feet at my place. I love the desert - I especially like that there are no mosquitoes (well, very few anyway), no fleas, and few insects in general. Winters are long here, and summer is brief. Spring and fall last about one week each, in late May and early September. My soil is very sandy as I am close to the Carson River, but the well is shallow and with compost and other amendments short season crops grow well. Hoping to build a hoop house this summer so that next year I can have a longer growing season!