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RE: FARMER OR HOMESTEADER - SOME THOUGHTS FROM PAPA
Wow good post. You can see in our name it says farm. When we started in Washington we named ourselves Rocky Brook farmstead. Now farmstead to me was about raising enough animals and growing food for us and our friends that could not grow food or raise animals. Reading this make me think that we are definitely homesteaders that want to sell some of my extras for thing i would need to buy. I guess you never see the word farmstead. I want to grow food for us and extra for farmers market. So do you think farmstead fits or are we just homesteaders?
No, I agree with you. Farmstead is another good word. What we want to do sounds similar to what you're up to, and I think either name applies.
Yes we are soooooo on the same page on trying to need less money not wanting to make more.
Just gave you a full power upvote on that comment to try to help out with needing less money, LOL!
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I also agree with your thinking, when we can manage the land, then we will not depend again with the outside world, because we already have what is needed. when we raise cattle, then there we must have farmland. because the cattle in the creation of God is the best fertilizer factory. and the best farming technique is the intercropping model, because the nature of the plants keep each other. we can also see the forest. why did God grow a variety of plants there, so there is a balance that goes there. I wrote a lot about Integrated Farming, please visit my blog. and i always follow you ,,, good luck @ papa-papers, thank you.
I like the term farmstead and I think you used it well. (I wrote my comment below before I saw your comment) Nothing wrong with being a farmer AND a homesteader to me. I don't really buy into the idea that if you make any money at all, you are a farm, and you can't call yourself a homesteader if you are making money. There probably is a line somewhere between being just a farm or just a homestead, but I tend to think that should be determined on a case by case basis. You're fine, keep defining yourself however you want.
I hope that you didn't think that this was my point. I totally agree with you. I just would prefer not to have manure lagoons or acres and acres of corn associated with what I'm up to. It paints a very different picture in my mind.
No, I didn't think that was what you were saying at all. I've heard that elsewhere quite a few times, and I think it is an over-simplification. I thought the boundaries you suggested between the terms was very accurate. It's kind of a "I'll know it when I see it" thing for me, and I agree with the contrasts you pointed out.
I thought so, I just wanted to double-check. Thanks!