Keep in mind farming is also quite expensive nowadays and you won’t be able to survive off the yields by farming your great grandfathers way.
Clarksons farm hams it up a bit but does touch on the real costs and effort that goes into modern farming. He just finished season 4 and affirmed again that a normal farmer would be bankrupt in his situation, his farm only survives due to his being rich from other revenue streams
And you’ll maybe have enough crop to feed yourself each winter, one bad yield and you starve though. And that’s if you can attain a decent amount of land and you break both you and your mule’s back working it
Keep in mind farming is also quite expensive nowadays and you won’t be able to survive off the yields by farming your great grandfathers way.
Clarksons farm hams it up a bit but does touch on the real costs and effort that goes into modern farming. He just finished season 4 and affirmed again that a normal farmer would be bankrupt in his situation, his farm only survives due to his being rich from other revenue streams
I suppose you don’t have to do ‘modern farming’, though. You could farm in an older way.
Depends if you want enough surplus left over to trade for municipal plumbing and a smartphone.
And you’ll maybe have enough crop to feed yourself each winter, one bad yield and you starve though. And that’s if you can attain a decent amount of land and you break both you and your mule’s back working it