Posted by jdemaris on January 02, 2009 at 08:17:17 from (67.142.130.29):
In Reply to: Smallest farm posted by Paul Janke on January 01, 2009 at 16:10:44:
What RAB stated is right on the money. Makes me think of my great-grandmother who lived on a "farm" her entire life in Ariège, southern France. Never had any other income. Rural French farmers traded goods with one another, that's all. She had a few acres she actually owned, and many other acres her goats grazed on. She grew her own vegetables, made her own clothes, and produced goat cheese for trade. She didn't know she wasn't making a proper living, because nobody told her. Status is usually relative to what we see around us.
This sticks in my mind, because being brought up in the USA, I envisioned my g-grandma having a "real" farm, by USA standards. Now, I kind of envy the life-style she had - but - also still have my computers and TVs along with too many tractors I don't really need.
On the same note, I don't know anybody with a small farm that truly lives off it alone. Not when you consider additional income from a spouse with another job, government incentives to artificially support products, etc.
Might be some small scale illegal drug farming doing well - but above that, I doubt it.
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