Posted by paul on January 01, 2009 at 16:36:23 from (66.44.132.127):
In Reply to: Smallest farm posted by Paul Janke on January 01, 2009 at 16:10:44:
I think truck farms - vegitables - or cut flowers type of operation which use a lot of labor from a whole family (5 or ao, how do you count labor from the kids?) can make a living on 10 acres or so.
Gotta keep busy enough on the farm so as not to want cell phone, sat TV, etc etc tho, and be in the right location to have a market.
Were you meaning row crops or small grains & typical 'farm' livestock tho?
Then you are looking at 200 acres or so and the land needs to be owned & paid for to make it work.
Health insurance is a problem, how to afford that.
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