>>2794669Forget about farming on its own. You can do it if you have enough land, but getting that land will take years.
What you can do, however, is farm as a sidebusiness. In my case, for example, I've got bees (started when I was 14 and built it up slowly), chickens (started this year with 8 hens and a rooster, and they're already paying for their own food, I'll increase the numbers as I get more land) and fruit trees (one weekend in winter to prune them, a few days throughout the summer to harvest, then I make the fruits into wine and marmelade). Most people where I am grow grapes, and they'll usually have around 1ha, sell around 10000l and make around 20k profit while walking a regular job on the side.
>What are the steps I need to take?Get land, grow shit, sell it. Maybe refine it inbetween.
>risksSeriously? bankruptcy, not getting a wife, ruining your reputation for being that stupid hippie who thought he could just move out and become a farmer
>benefitsYou might not starve. And you won't have to deal with superiors once your farm is established.
>How is the life of being a farmer?Relaxed. If you set things up properly (growing what your soil is suitable for instead of what earns you the most) and don't have to bother with getting gibs (which will often require actions that make unnecessary or harmful work, ex. I wouldn't be allowed to use my chickens for weed control, as "intensive grazing" gets no money, but using herbicides does) you're looking at a few hours each day. Even less with animals - my bees take around 10min / week and hive, my chickens (the entire flock) around 5 min / day. Plus a few hours every now and then for harvesting honey or buying feed.
>>2797368>need around a million dollars in land and equipmentIs the US that expensive? Here in Germany, to barely make ends meet with farming, you'd need around 200k€ worth of land, and about 10 of equipment. And that's already in one of the more expensive parts of the country.
