Is Rural Living a Hobby?

[Steppenwolfe]

Ok. Then it was your fault for not using due diligence to discover his knowledge of what "level" is before he started the project. In this business, one is only as good as one's last job; no need to disparage the competition, word gets around.

Amen to that !!!

 

[oosik]

Strange - reading the posts here - first time I've heard the term "hobby farm". I don't consider my 80 acres to be a hobby farm. I live here and choose this life style over any other. I do for myself and depend upon few others. If I can't do it - most likely it will not get done. Life out here sure keeps me busy.

 

[lman]

Strange - reading the posts here - first time I've heard the term "hobby farm". I don't consider my 80 acres to be a hobby farm. I live here and choose this life style over any other. I do for myself and depend upon few others. If I can't do it - most likely it will not get done. Life out here sure keeps me busy.

Around here they used to call a hobby farmer, somebody that worked off the farm but lived on a farm. That was back when you could make it on 500 acres of good crops and livestock.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Tough to find good tradespeople in rural America, lots of hacks who own a paintbrush and know where they can borrow a ladder who call themselves painters. Feel free to substitute the equivalent for a different trade.
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Satellite TV installers. What a hack I had.

 

[Frankenkubota]

Satellite TV installers. What a hack I had.

And the guy who ran my dsl cable made $125,000.00 last year, with unlimited overtime.

 

[California]

Around here they used to call a hobby farmer, somebody that worked off the farm but lived on a farm. That was back when you could make it on 500 acres of good crops and livestock.

I have to say my place fits the definition of hobby farm. 8 acre apple orchard plus 3 acres of impassible ravine, which has become the neighborhood wildlife reserve as neighbors fenced their new vineyards. Typical year is 80 tons of apples produced.

Most of the orchard operation is run by a neighbor who makes a living operating several parcels for others along with his own vineyard. Mine is the smallest of his operations. I backhoe out stumps and run the my watering trailer to new trees, he takes over responsibility for the new trees after they reach bearing age.

That neighbor operates 200 acres overall and is simply making a living, not getting wealthy. I jokingly claim I am an 'aspiring gentleman farmer', that is, some farmer image just for fun because I enjoy what I do. But I'm not pretending to make a living at it.

 

[Herness]

It kinda is, in my opinion. If you like it - you call it a hobby. I am lucky enough to be flexible and work from everywhere in the world and it gives me a lot of energy to spend time on my uncle's farm or somewhere in a tiny house next to the lake. Nature and tranquility are the best medicine for me when i feel down. And everything i had to do for it - built a successful project management system which started to work for me after a certain period of time.

 

[Solitary Man]

I have to say my place fits the definition of hobby farm. 8 acre apple orchard plus 3 acres of impassible ravine, which has become the neighborhood wildlife reserve as neighbors fenced their new vineyards. Typical year is 80 tons of apples produced.

Most of the orchard operation is run by a neighbor who makes a living operating several parcels for others along with his own vineyard. Mine is the smallest of his operations. I backhoe out stumps and run the my watering trailer to new trees, he takes over responsibility for the new trees after they reach bearing age.

That neighbor operates 200 acres overall and is simply making a living, not getting wealthy. I jokingly claim I am an 'aspiring gentleman farmer', that is, some farmer image just for fun because I enjoy what I do. But I'm not pretending to make a living at it.

I don't know how anyone makes money off of the land anymore. I say if you have an outside income, and enjoy your land as it suits you... You are a Hobby Farmer.

 

[oosik]

Those who think of a farm as a hobby probably don't enjoy real rural living - as it should be.

 

[California]

Those who think of a farm as a hobby probably don't enjoy real rural living - as it should be.

... or else can't afford it.