This is absolutely retarded. A 1/2 acre garden is not a "garden", it's a small farm, and a full time job. The Urban Farmer Curtis Stone runs production on this scale, and he has employees and facilities.https://twitter.com/ploughmansfolly/status/1486886372992552966 …
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5/ I love the idea of raising 10 pigs on a 1/2 acre lot in the suburbs. That's gonna smell GREAT.
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6/ yeah, we have 5 raised beds, each ~35' long x 4' wide, and we barely keep up during the summer. That's 700 square feet total. 1/2 of an acre is 21,780 square feet ... or 32 times as much. This guy is an absolute idiot. https://twitter.com/wokekaiserkarl/status/1487077285773594630 …
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7/ yeeeep and lossage rates in home / hobby operations are MUCH higher than in professional farms where you can afford the infrastructure to have insurance (temperature alarms, fire alarms, sprinklers, fans that kick on to prevent overheating)https://twitter.com/LawfulEvil5/status/1487077674971447300 …
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8/ my home raised bacon costs about 5x what factory bacon costs. I do it only bc it's 10x as tasty.https://twitter.com/CapnWhitebread/status/1487078701749706758 …
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9/ I'm all for lower taxes on everybody. I reject special pleading for the gov to subsidize my lifestyle by cutting my taxes and subsidizing it w taxes from other people.https://twitter.com/ctdonath/status/1487078824890273794 …
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10/ yes, they do Homesteading Twitter is an absolute cesspit of poor thinking, rivaled only by ... every single other corner of twitter.https://twitter.com/mikethegratest/status/1487078910709927942 …
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11/ a neighbor is going to keep dairy cows what do dairy cows eat? grass how much? 1.5 - 2 acres for a cow-calf pair. If you've got 2 milking cows, you've got 2 pairs, so you need 3-4 acres MINIMUM. And yet we're going to put that on 1/2 acre.https://twitter.com/ploughmansfolly/status/1486890301218242568 …
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12/ poast a picture of the 1/2 acre garden that you've managed || GTFO https://twitter.com/YauponIlex/status/1487081066640912388 …
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16/ also, the problem with "with mechanical assistance" is that it's very hard to scale things down to 1/2 acre size I've tried to use my tractor to do work on some 1/8 acre patches on my farm and ... this means that I need like 6 implements ...for a spot that's pretty small
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17/ instead of brushhogging 20 acres, taking off the implement and putting on a discer, discing 20 acres, etc. ... I'm going 100 feet, turning around, doing a 2nd pass, switching implements insane amount of overhead
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18/ "2-3 months" is relevant too - what happens when the entire country is swamped in tomatoes for 4 weeks? does every household with one of these 1/2 acre farms set up hot water bath canning operations that run 12 hrs per day? how do you store cukes?https://twitter.com/mrsnightskyre/status/1487086176444026886 …
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19/ For the haters out there, a FAQ: Q: do you hate homesteading? A: no ; I are one Q: do you hate gardens? A: no, I garden Q: do you hate decentralization? A: no, I love it Q: do you hate hard work? A: nopic.twitter.com/pQ6MVWN1GW
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20/ Q: do you know what you're talking about? A: yes, I like to think sohttps://twitter.com/MorlockP/status/1405274490607599617 …
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21/ Q: do you think people should homestead? A: if they want to, sure Q: do you think people should live in pod and eat bug? A: if they want to, sure Q: do you think homesteading is easy? A: hell no Q: do you think 1 in 10 people could / would do it? A: hell no
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22/ 911 I'd like to report a murderhttps://twitter.com/JASutherlandBks/status/1487091083993661444 …
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23/ and to get rid of the weeds, we're going to need to spray with 2,4-D / 3,6-D, so we're going to need another implement for the tractor, plus good understanding of application rates...https://twitter.com/JNwk14/status/1487091446058475523 …
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25/ sure. I go into great depth in this in my homesteading book. There's a fixed amount of waste food out there, and it can support a FEW hobbyist pig farmers...not replacing all hog farming in the US. Also...it takes time & effort to pick up the foodhttps://twitter.com/JNwk14/status/1487094108657180674 …
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26/ ...now you're doing a weekly slop run, and storing it ...where? In 50 gallon drums in your barn? So now you've got 50 gallon drums of donuts, moldy bread, cheese and pepperoni scraps from the deli, leftover rotisserie chickens, 300 half eaten hamburgers, ice cream shakes
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27/ So you've got these 50 gallon drums of slop. All winter long those drums are frozen solid unless you wrap them in heating tape. All summer long they are fermenting. You're going out there and filling trays with fermented slop in 95 degree summer weather. It drips everywhere
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28/ Let's talk about flies. ...and rats. Your barn is absolutely COVERED in flies, bc you're spilling french fries and pancakes and soup drippings on the floor, on your shoes, on the stall dividers. The outside of the drums are disgusting and covered with flies 24x7.
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29/ Barns have rats. Every barn has rats. EVERY barn has rats. (yes, my barn has rats) Plastic drums hold your slop ok ... until the rats chew through them. Now your slop is leaking onto the floor.
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30/ The rats leave rat droppings everywhere. Barns are dusty. You know what that dust is made from? Aerosolized pig feces. ...and now you've got rat feces in the mix too. What's the result of breathing in rodent droppings? Google "Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome".
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31/ more thoughts on the smellhttps://twitter.com/VarangianSkull/status/1487095540533837832 …
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32/ Poast a picture of your half acre garden please. I don't think I'm a weakling or scared of hard work.https://twitter.com/MichaelTG09/status/1487097246265102343 …
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33/ yes, me mentioning passing that I live on a farm and sell a 600 page book documenting how I run my gardens and livestock operation for $24 is pure grifthttps://twitter.com/MichaelTG09/status/1487100461324943367 …
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34/ I'm seeing a lot of haters in my mentions telling me "this is absolutely easy , I do a̵ ̵h̵a̵l̵f̵ ̵a̵c̵r̵e̵ ̵g̵a̵r̵d̵e̵n̵ something or other, and it's trivial. What's wrong with you?" Not a one of them is showing me a picture of said garden.
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