the farmers you hear about -- in the news, in economic/politics, if they're farmers and not pickers or farmhands, are millionaires.
If not in liquid, in assets. That's the only way to really make reasonably positive money farming, enough to keep one going, rn. Unless you want to subsistence farm, which means giving up a lot of your luxuries and even then probably having issues.
I wish less people saw it as an out, if only because I'd prefer less farm animals have a shit time of it.
at least do the math. for their sake.
go if you must, but do it with open eyes.
I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota. About 130 acres, not huge, but still enough.
What annoys me most about the cottagecore stuff I see is how it just completely glosses over how hard it is and how expensive it is.
Nothing has taught me just how much land and work is needed to feed one person more than tending to a couple of garden beds. The six 3'x6' beds gave a four adult household a couple nights of fresh veggies a week at peak. Most of the time they would be fun treats of really good tomatoes.
More people should garden though! Even if it's a small container, working a community garden, or tearing out your shit lawn to grow a few things. You learn so much about what it takes to grow plants, how much work it is to keep them thriving, the pain of a failed crop and the joy of eating something you tended to with your own hands. I already had a lot of respect for those who pick food (shout out to United Farm Workers), but this only deepened it.
