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this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2025
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Ah yes, the classic 1 acre with a cow, a calf, two pigs, a duck pond and a chicken coop.
Does the artist know how much a cow eats? That ducks can fly? Who cares, vibes vibes vibes!
A lot else is wrong with this, but good luck feeding just one cow off of 1 acre of ANYTHING.
Drop the livestock (minus the chicken) and the grains; expand that vegetable garden, and you can have a nice hobby that gives you some nice fresh food to supplement going to the store throughout part of the year.
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If we disregard the comically small pastures which would probably be animal abuse, this is just a large vegetable garden, which is a nice thing to have and not the worst hobby you could be into. It has nothing to do with self-suffucience though.
This is like if people who re into cottage core thought about what a homestead would look like, without doing any actual homesteading.
I've done it. I mean, worked a farm. Worked cattle, and a half acre vegetable garden, chickens and pigs. It's not for the faint of heart. It isn't for redditors and people who post on twitter.
That's not enough room for ANY of that. That veggie garden will provide for a few months at best, in optimal conditions. Less so if you're growing multiple seasons. The fruit trees take YEARS to produce anything worth harvesting. It takes more than two trees of a few varieties, which are in season at different times of the year. There's so much about this that doesn't work.
Fucking larpers man. Are they gonna post about it when none of that works?
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It's 4 (admittedly extremely emaciated cows[or maybe rats?]), how much land could they possibly need, 10,000 sqft?
World's first battery farmed beef.
Damn, like 30% of it is green desert. Not a botanical garden or water retention or pollinator garden with a path through it or even just rotating livestock forage, but the most boring and unproductive thing they can imagine. I visited the 1/2 acre~ home of a horticulturist recently and he had an entire forest growing between three ecosystems, at least a hundred species of plants. When I can finally afford a homestead similar to this, I could squeeze like 4x the metabolism out of this space.
Imagine having a fucking lawn when you only have 1 acre to grow food lol
That got me too. Peasants could've been grilling and slip-sliding on all the church holidays, what were they thinking using ALL their land for "crops"???
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tag yourself, I'm "small fruits"
I'm the duck that's nearly the size of a calf
Grain, famous for it's per-acre productivity
(wait, isn't grain super productive per acre or am i missing something here)
It comes down to economies of scale.
In the US grains like corn and wheat go for about $4.25-$5.25 per pound.
One acre of land can produce about 2.3 tons (48,000 pounds) of wheat.
So being generous, lets say you could make $240,000 per acre.
Now you have to factor in the costs to grow, harvest, process, store, and ship that. Along with that you need to equipment to do all of this.
Ultimately, a large farm might spend more initially for bigger equipment, there going to beat out smaller farms by shear volume.
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Economies of scale? Never met 'em.