Imagine having a fucking lawn when you only have 1 acre to grow food lol

Grain, famous for it's per-acre productivity

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?

This furthers my belief that American libertarians believe Earth is Minecraft

I've probably been a little too forward over the years about personal details like this but I grew up on a "x farm" (non animal product) and in the summers as a kid I worked on a ranch with a bunch of miscellaneous farm animals doing all kinda bullshit with buckets and bailing wire and all the fun stuff. The amount of land it requires is so much more than these fucking hobbyist dipshits think.

The lady I worked for basically ran a retirement home for old work animals. Old horses and cows too old for work but they're fine animals and she had a big heart. It's so much work tending animals that you don't have to harness up and do shit with. They're big! They eat all fuckin day! It's all they do! Except the horses. They sometimes stare at you like but just one eye because they have to look sideways to stare because their enormous banana heads.

Anyways, fuck these idiots, swear to christ chuds going all "pol pot year zero but with homesteading" is going to get shitloads of people killed if it ever came to pass because they'll collapse the entire food system from the ground up. Don't ever let these idiots be in charge of the food production.

This person built their ideology after playing Stardew Valley

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.

tag yourself, I'm "small fruits"

I'm not too good for star wars slop but "this is the way" is a phrase that irritates me and makes me hate whoever typed it.

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.

This is Manifest Destiny/Lebensraum shit lmao

It's 4 (admittedly extremely emaciated cows[or maybe rats?]), how much land could they possibly need, 10,000 sqft?

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.

The mechanism of animal husbandry in pre-industrial society was usually to extract value out of undeveloped land and/or store value for times of scarcity. It required large ratios of land per human in order to passively extract value through grazing.

This image is fetishism.

Fucking Stardew Valley looking-ass shit

pol pot ass attention to detail from the half-assed anprim hoggers

you can't fit all that into an acre in sufficient quantity for anything approaching self-sufficiency
for one, to avoid overgrazing the rule of thumb is 1 acre per cow, not like 1/16th an acre per pair
and that amount of grain is like a few dozen loaves of bread per harvest
actual subsistence farming is not possible with that much wasted space
tbh you would need at least 10 times that to be properly self suffiient

I've never in my life met a chud who willingly lived in this small of a house. assuming there's nothing above the garage its a total footprint of 20x30 feet, significantly less than 600sqft interior. This is the kind of house chuds try to split into two dogshit studio apartments and rent out for a profit.

you can't raise an evangelical-sized family in that size house built to american standards. If its two stories its pretty modest, if its one its tiny tiny.

Not to mention the hilariously small animal pens and crop fields

You can supplement your food intake with a garden but you aren't going to be self sufficient on 1 acre lmao, and your garden isn't going to have the same yield as a farm field, and those animals are going to just die or be miserable and you're going to be utterly dependent on wherever you buy their feed from

I'm a city dweller now but I have family who grow food, raise chickens and such and grew up near pastures with cattle and horses. The amount space for grazing you need for livestock is a ton! There are plenty of places where it makes sense. Rocky terrain with poor soil conditions can be great for goats and sheep. Other areas poor for growing can be good for other livestock like cattle and cattle can be good for natural fertilizer and so on. Point is there are tons of ways to have a homestead where you raise and grow your own food but of all the ways, this isn't it. It's not just bad: it flat out is non-functional. This person not only has never raised livestock in their life but has never even been around it. They didn't even do a basic google on it. They didn't even fucking do the current lazy shit and just ask AI.

minecraft ass garden

Not quite as funny as the chud who included ice cream made from his tradwife's breast milk as part of his homesteading fantasy

Yeoman dream.

Me after stardew valley