Anyone have a hobby farm?
Eric the Great *USA* asked:
I have a nice rural 10 acer lot upstate new york that is a hay field. I give the hay to the farmer next door to me in return for keeping the property from being over grown since I don’t have equipment to maintain it. about 800-900 bails per year
May build soon and would like to utilize the property and get my hands dirty. Don’t know were to begin and what works. has anyone experience this?
I have very hard time getting people to do work up there no one ever shows up, that’s why I give it to him. I know he will get done and Its important for the quality of future growth. I live 280 miles away from this lot now for that reason its worth it for me until I live their.
I’ve been thinking along the lines of small greenhouses, small animals, practical self sufficiency. some way subsidize income
peter, what are talking about dude
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3 Responses to “Anyone have a hobby farm?”
Build a motocross track. Dirtbikes in the summer, snowmobiles in the winter. That would be a fun place for people to come together and have fun, and you would definitely get your hands dirty, along with the rest of you.
dude go to the library do you want to be organic or have intensive farming practice whats a farm with out a windmill to power your shop or your needs free roaming chickens have the hardest shells leaving buffers arround your field saves habitat and helps prevent erosion do you want to use chemicals that could damage your body do you throw biodegradebles into your garden from your table do you want to do it the old way with draft horses like amish people they have more animals on there property than the state or do you want new equipt do you want to be no plow and layering or do you want to milk your land for all its worth and not make it produce year after year and your only focused for that year do you want to pull up the medisonal plants or do you want to war with everything on your property do you want a hand crank tractor or no tractor at all do you want irrigation that takes water from the aquafier or do you want to have a farm pond some alfalfa roots can grow 15 feet deep do you want to have bee hives or do you want to kill the workers that pollinate the trees and bushes and shrubs do you want to set aside some areas for habitat and git a credit from the govt do you enjoy the rocks in your field cause they eventually will disolve or do you want to use them arround the house do you want to live more eco friendly or do you want to pollute the ground water do you like the recyclables laying all over your property or will you git a recycle bin will you take donations of manure from other farms will you improve your soil or make it erode so bad you cant even git a plow thru it do you want to make smog with a tractor or are you going to walk the fields your self when some farmers let others cultivate there land there not thinking about making it produce year after year what do you want to do with it you could sell it off and they could bring in the metropolis with sky scrapers
It may be nice to have the property mowed clear, but letting a farmer have the hay for free is not a great deal for you. Here in MI you can expect to be paid for the standing hay. If the farmer cuts and bales you should get 25 - 50 cents per bale. If you get your own tractor, mower, rake, and baler you could get $2.50 - $3.00 per bale.