I've got a farm, but it is leased out to a tenant farmer who does things conventionally.
This is a picture of some of the produce I picked today from my home garden, my greenhouse, and the various bushes, trees, etc. I've planted over the last year. I have probably 100 different types of edible plants now growing on my property. I even have a llama (not edible...or not intended to be eaten but, rather, intended as a guardian animal for future sheep, goats, and probably chickens) and fish.
SOME of what I harvested today includes: Broccholi, onion, tomatoes, cucumber, squash, zuchinni, dill, carrots, lettuce, blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, plums, apples, kumquats, peaches.
I even have cereal grains but not a grinder nor the motivation to put in all that work of harvesting, hulling, grinding, etc.
My goal is to build an edible forest garden and have plenty of food growing around me year round so I don't have to go to a store. So far I am having a tougher time than I probably would have expected.
It's sort of feast or famine and I feel a near constant craving for starches, which are currently in short supply (I'm growing potatoes now but they won't be ready for harvest for some time and then only for a limited period). I am really in awe of our ancestors who were able to feed themselves through the winter. I expect to get to self sufficiency in another month or so when many more fruits and vegetables are ready, but I doubt I will have enough to get through winter (athough if I canned I could probably do it). I dunno. Harder than I would have thought in some regards.
Maybe I am just impatient. Until last year I really hadn't any experience growing anything. And, in time, as the various trees come on line, it should become easier and easier.
Too bad I think I am going to have to move to another country in a few years!
I have come to realize that men are not born to be free. Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men. -Napoleon
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