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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2/ I raise 3 hogs per year, maybe every other year. The idea that one can "merely" just raise 10 pigs is ... insane. Also ... pigs eat food. If you're keeping them on 1/2 an acre (or far far less if you're also gardening), they're not foraging >https://twitter.com/ploughmansfolly/status/1486888062353301509 …
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3/ You are importing a MASSIVE amount of food. Pigs have a 3:1 conversion ratio; if you're harvesting them at 300 lbs, that means 3,000 lbs of pig, which means 30,000 lbs of feed ..except those are professional conversion rations. Amateur farmers do much worse. 50,000 lbs feed.
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4/ You are also generating a LOT of feces and urine. My barn smells...agricultural. That's with ~10 sheep, ~20 chickens and ~3 pigs. The front part of my homestead is 16 acres. I can see my neighbors, but they're a decent bit away.
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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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This reminds me of the Joel Salatin interview where he said that people in an apartment could keep chickens and they wouldn't smell at all if you had enough bedding. Absolutely nuts.
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