>>1392368Let's make a run-down of that picture, shall we?
>Page 131/10th of an acre is the size of a fucking allotment garden. You are not going to feed anyone from such small piece of land, especially when tun in such absurd way
>half an acreGod-awful land usage, along with retarded pasture (1/8th of acre, good luck feeding cows from it) for high-maintenance animal. Pretty picture by someone who buys all the food in the shop and keeps a garden to have fresh groceries to a Sunday soup.
>The infamout One Acre HoldingEveryone knows Saymour was a retard living off the money he earned on his book for armchair gardeners dreaming about escaping to the "pure, pristine rural area", rather than actual farming. And his crown project is epitome of poor management and day-dreaming. Cows? Pigs? Chickens without any good fodder planted? All that fed from singe acre? But no goats? No rabbits? No realistic orchard?
Yeah, how about no.
The sad part about most of those "Make your own self-reliable homestead" guidebooks is that they are sold to people who will never move to such place anyway, but in the same time have no clue about any of the subjects, so they eagerly buy all that shit and day-dreaming.
Realistically, you should divide your land into four parts, keep a single goat (female), plant one part with potatoes, one with corn and beans and one for vegetables. The remaining part (along with outlines of remaining ones) should have fruit trees and/or shrubs, As many as only feasible, just remember to protect the bark from your goat. Every other solution will starve you. But that's not romantic nor nice looking, so why bother, right?
tl;dr I'm sick of faggots who think farming is some romantic adventure, rather than hard labour
