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We're on just over an acre and I'm very jealous of my father's 22 acres that he has yet to utilize fully. My kids are 1 and 3 and my husband is no farmer so it's pretty much all on me so I guess the 1+acres is enough for now. I'm still working towards further sustainability goals. At the moment I raise a good portion of our meat (chicken, turkey, duck, rabbits) all of which I butcher myself. I also have several (unregistered 🤣) gardens and just set up a high tunnel. I compost and have apple, pear, and nut trees but only the apple trees are producing. I have blueberries but am looking to expand with strawberries (just put in the ground this fall), grapes, elderberry, rasp&blkberries, and currants. I'd also like to add a cherry tree or two. I grow my own herbs both for culinary and medicinal. Looking to expand on the medicinal herbs this upcoming spring to fill my apothecary with everything we need so that I'm not ordering them with maybe the exception of a few homeopathics. While this is a nice start, if your goal is to be close to 100% sustainable as possible (no one can be 100%) 1 acre is not enough. I'd like to grow my own grains/corn for my family and to feed my livestock but that isn't doable without the addition of land. With that said, something is better then nothing; make do with whatcha got. If you live in an apartment and can only grow herbs on your windowsills well that's still better then buying them from the store! Oh and as far as Karen's go, hahaha! I've had my husband's family pass by (because we share a driveway) as I was butchering and I've got comments such as Is that even humane? Is that sanitary? Lol I educated them on exactly where their store meat comes from and how "humane" they were raised and possibly even dispatched. I know they don't believe me so I still just wave hi as they pass by 🤣
We just moved on 2.6 acres in Florida. Working on a Food Forest and chickens. Love it out here, awesome! I will be 71 in January and feel like I’m 21! I love working hard outside planting and working the land! What a blessing, thank You Abba!🙌
We've got 7.38 acres, and we're doing our best to develop it. We're building a bridge over the creek, got an orchard, an outhouse and a shed. Where we are living, there is a HOA, and we've had some issues. They took my duck. .yep, one duck a few years ago. I have chickens now, I butchered a couple today, and later I saw animal control next door …..hmmm….I hope they're not coming after my chickens….my neighbors, the alcoholic atheists, will get the last remaining piece of my mind…lol.
I am on just over 2 acres and even in central Nebraska i had to hunt for not having a covenant, Nebraska's version of hoa, love it and would not change it for the world.
Yep we have one acre and we have soooo much going on from goats, chickens, ducks. Large permaculture food forest, orchards, Bees, summer gardens, greenhouses, ponds, playgrounds for the grands and more! I would only maybe want one more acre for animal grazing but that’s it! Grow everything vertical which saves sooo much room. Use cross fencing and grow up the fence panels. Everyone swears we have more then an acre when they see what all we have going on here.
We have just over an acre. We left behind 50 acres much of which we never used. We are building back up again and hopefully will have goats again. Where we are sheep wont work, we have no pasture jus woods. Horses? I have 30 years experience same as any animal they are as expensive as you want to make them. There are many misconceptions as to what a horse really needs. In saying that I wont have them again at least in the near future. They are too big eat too much and aren’t overly useful yet.
You can do a lot on an acre 😊
Did you get remarried
We purchased four acres a year ago. 2.6 is open and 1.5 is wooded. We put in a wood stove in July and a big storm came through shortly after and knocked down 20+ trees. Now I’m wishing we had ten acres with most of it wooded. The open land is a lot of maintenance if you don’t have livestock yet.
100% agree with horse comments
How many sheep would you say is the max for an acre?
Looking for a small homestead in Pennsylvania.
Right now in mt waiting out the winter then going east center belt down to Arkansas just not sure where else to go till we travel there is how I know how to shop for properties so I know if I like the area and it works for my 3 businesses as they thrive in areas with some people no less then 500 people thanks, if you could give my at cost properties rural 15 to 20 minutes from Main town with no restrictions. Let me know I don't like paying over cost properties makes no sense to my family specially if the is no timber to work with if there is then there would be more value to me to buy at a high cost. Let me know
100% agree with this! It's incredible what you can do on a little piece of land. We started small on little under an acre, bought a small farm on 10 acres and we have SO much space compared to what we had before that I'm unsure with how to use the land the best. Definitely following along to listen to all your knowledge!
I had a 10 4'x12' raised beds, 15 chickens, and 3 goats on 1/5 acre in downtown Colorado Springs. Along with my house, a shop and a couple storage sheds.
We're on 2.76 acres and we do A LOT on our homestead. Sometimes it requires some creativity but we get it done. We have goats, meat rabbits, chickens, cats, dogs, a good size garden that We're still growing, large herb/cottage garden and a small "orchard" if you want to call it that with blueberry, blackberry and raspberry plants..
I had just 1/15th of an acre (1500 sq ft) for gardening when I built a suburban homestead (La Casa Verde Swamp Garden, Youtube). Using squarefoot and trellising along with a no till strategy we grew enough to feed three people. Fifteen egg layers rounded out the diet pretty well with the exception of adequate fats….we purchased olive oil and butter to compensate.
You can do a lot on one acre, but I don't think you can grow enough stovewood to be self sufficient.
3/4 acre suburbia 5 hens no rooster garden need slightly more space 2 acres more animals larger garden less neighbors more like minded neighbors better
Here in zone 3 you need a tad bit more land IF you want to grow your own food for livestock.
Horses, I don’t understand their function on a modern homestead.
I myself don’t want neighbours seeing me so 🤣 yeah, I want a big piece of land for my own privacy and sanity.
Horses – hayburners !
We have a half acre in a small farm town, had to fight the town board last year for my poultry and gardens (they wanted me to get rid of both). I have two 10x20x7 greenhouses, several raised beds, a small pond, several fruit trees vines and bushes, not much grass left lol, chickens for meat and eggs, Muscovy ducks and call ducks for breeding and selling and 2 rabbits for cold compost. All of my flowers are medicinal or edible, no freeloaders lol. Currently looking for sheep or goats to add to the property. Hope to end up on more land but it’s Gods call not ours. We also heat with wood and have several Rick stacked where we can in the yard. Do what you can, where you can!
I love watching Becky on her channel called ONE ACRE HOMESTEAD. She shows how much you can do on only one acre.
Stupid does hurt but most stupid do not feel it as they are the narcs of the world instead it is those of us who have to suffer them that feel it! Love your shirt! Did you know BLM all carry openly AR-15's. just sayin…
Shalom.
A single mom, like me? 1 acre, I could think of what to do with that! 🧐🤷🏻♀️😜heck yeah!
So called ordinance are not in stone like they like you to think. They can an often broken in court. A friend beat a ordinance they had over a apartment building and he won. We the people need to come togeather and show up in masses then speak out and over these thugs in office. Then pitition to get them tosses out on the street. If we don't take our constitutional rights back of life land an persuit of happiness we will be total communist. Pastor Chuck Baldwin on you tube the last message he had a lot to say on many things. A true constitutionalist man. Good video. Looking to buy soon when the markets drop more but before April. Need to get crops in in May
Justin Rhodes said if your not homesteading with a little you won't do it with more land
We have homesteaded on a 1/2 acre, 1 acre, 1.6 acres, 10 acres, and now 20 acres. People need to not keep waiting until they can buy land and start doing homestead stuff now right where they are. We started back in 2006 and slowly worked our way up. In fact, it’s easier to start small and gradually learn before you buy a bigger homestead.
And I must disagree on horses. 😉 We farmed with horses in Kentucky and that’s what we plan to do here as well. We’ve got one draft horse and are buying a foal in the spring to train ourselves. Honestly, horses don’t really eat much, although they do require feed. They do make a good SHTF animal though. We will have transportation and we can take our cattle and sheep down the road to graze on the national forest land. So horses serve a purpose. But I’m okay agreeing to disagree. 😉
So great to see I feel like I've been doing research for years and it's finally time to do my garden. I have fruit trees and grapes but haven't attempted a garden here its going to cost some $$$ to deer proof our dogs usually do a great job for our trees
It’s true… we have 1 acre and less than that that is in our fenced in back yard.
We have a chicken yard that has 2 turkeys, 2 ducks, 27 hens, and a rooster.
We have a paddock for a Holstein heifer and a bull calf. They get to Rome the rest of the back yard too.
We have a paddock for 2 pigs which is also our orchard that has a grape vine, 2 apple trees, a pear tree, a plum tree, a peach tree and 3 blueberry bushes.
And a 576 sq foot fenced in garden. 🙂
Get started today yall.☺️
My (1/3-acre) homestead is in Texas and here, we call horses, "hay burners" because horse meat is no longer en vogue.
BTW – @ 74, 1/3-acre is a BEHEMOTH to take care of. I grow about 80% of my own food & also harvest energy (solar & wind).
friend of mine said BOAT stands for Bust Out Another Thousand……Wonder what Horse stands for!
224 acres! We started on 14 acres, then, 31 acres, then 97 acres and now 224. We hunt, fish, garden, have sheep and cows. We have around 100 head. Praise the Father for blessing us! Hope to see you soon at fellowship down in Southtown!
We wanted 100 acres. Did we need it? No. I just wanted us to be remote with no one close to us. We found 26 acres in Maine with water and it's off grid and we bought it site unseen. We visited it in October and absolutely loved it. We are moving there from Georgia this coming June to start our homestead. You can check our 1 video of our visit there on our channel if you're interested. Be kind though. It was my first attempt at video editing. More to come.
I live in ryegate vermont and I have 5acres. We have two cows, 19 chickens and 2 pigs right now. In about a week we will have a male to start breeding. We have a garden thats 110x30ft and expanding this spring.
My last ranch was 5 acres, most of it dedicated to three worthless horses. Also had two suicidal goats and occasionally their offspring which were worse than the horses. Had two hogs, obviously I wad uneducated. Loved my thirty chickens, duck, two geese, three turkeys and six dogs.
Without the horses and goats I could have easily condensed everything down to one acre with a epic garden. Most importantly for me, it had a well that pumped clean fresh water.
Reason why I sold it was because YAH told me to flee the Communist State of California and I listened.
hello folks, hence the handle, suburban homsted, we are on less than 1 acre and we are doing a lot more than you can imagine….
The real question is can you develop and keep up a 1 acre homestead? 1 acre will wear you out if not done right.
I think people see homesteaders on TY and see the good parts. What they don’t see is the real thing. Get a quote to PROPERLY fence a 15 acre pasture and then see what it takes to develop and maintain that pasture to maintain stocking rates. Want cows for meat? Ever try and process a cow by yourself? Not happening so you better be able to get them to a processor (if you can get a processing date). Better hope you can hire out moving your cattle otherwise you’ll be in the market for a stock trailer and a truck to pull it. After a while you’ll be begging for a tractor. 25k for a modest tractor that has a front loader that still won’t do everything you need it to do.
I’m not saying don’t make your dream come true (we’re building our HS now), but don’t make your dream into a nightmare.
1.25 acre, Well water, no HOA, outskirts of town, good neighbors, dirt road.
Over the moon with our 1/2 (0.46) acre plot.
And was able to pay cash for the property because ID10Ts wanted my old 2 acre horse property with the HOA and city water so badly that they paid over half a million for it.
We live in a little house with a backyard the size of 1/3 of football field, I have, chickens, rabbits, quail and a large garden with new area under construction expansion! Nope I don’t need more than can work! I give neighbors eggs for hush money! Lol! Oh yea I live in city limits!
Can you leave a link to your homestead property page?
Ended up with 35 acres in southern Missouri. Can't find anything more out here, as folks haven't really been selling since we bought in 2019. There was a flurry of stuff on the market and we lucked into what we got. Wanted more land, but got what was available.
Prices for land have only gone up…we'd be priced out of the market here, now, and would end up with much less land IF we could find any decent land for sale.
I have to wait for my acre property because the price is too good to pass up…..when my dad passes away its mine lol. 1 acre is just fine for a personal homestead if that's all you can afford. No streams on it but the well pump is only 50 feet deep (which I've never seen any that shallow on any property) so I think I'm good with finding water, not many zoning laws either.
0.53 of an acre i have chickens 2 roosters included 48 total a apple tree a cherry tree 8×8 raised garden grew a lot in there this last summer plan to grow more its great got one neighbor on the back part of my property being a (karen/caran) how ever u say it lol in nice terms to could say more but wont this is utube 🙂 but i do love my home i also live in highly democratic massachusetts not to fond of that 👍
I currently own a 3 bed two bathroom 3 car garage. I live in eastern CT. I want to go off grid. I have chickens now. I want a mini cow. I want ducks and rabbits. I want to Can everything and get off of refrigeration which is what 90% of my electric bill. I currently heat with coal but do have an oil furnace. I am trying to get my electric bill to the minimum. Last month was $98. I am on 2 acres. I tried growing a garden and the deer ate it. I want to grow a berry patch, a few fruit trees some apple trees.