What is a farm?
What qualifies a piece of land as a farm?
Does it have to be a certain number of acres? Or located in a certain area of the country?
Or have a certain number of animals on it? Perhaps a certain type of animal or a certain percentage of different types?
Does a place with only 70 chickens count as a farm? What about a place with only 5 horses?
To be a farm, is livestock required? What if you only grow fruits and vegetables but have no animals, does that count?
Or maybe you have to make a certain amount of income from the land to be considered a farm?
What percentage of food consumed needs to be grown at home to qualify as a farm? What if you don't grow anything but you have six pet goats, two horses, and a duck? Is that a farm?
Do you have to breed the animals to be a farm? What if you buy the animals and have them neutered or just don't feel like breeding them?
What if you breed the animals but only live on 1/4 acre in town?
Do you have to come from a farming background to be considered a "farmer"? Is there a genetic or familial qualification that makes people farmers? What if you grew up on a farm but don't have animals or grow food? Are you still a "farmer" because of your background?
How long do you have to have animals or a garden to be a "farmer"? Is there a number of years that makes you qualified to call your place a farm?
What is a farm?
2 comments:
I think if you ask 10 people this question, you'll get 10 different answers :)
We don't have a garden (no point in trying during one of the worst droughts in our state's history)
But we have goats for milk & meat.
We have chickens for eggs & bug control.
Meat rabbits off and on...
We provide nothing for the public though, just our own use..
Do we qualify as a "farm"?
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When we lived in Wyoming, I always called what we do "hobby farming" because I think farming does mean something bigger than an acreage. In Nebraska, I don't dare call myself a farmer. It really doesn't matter what we call it. We know what we are and what we can do. Right?
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