this is what i have, replace pigs and ducks with rabbits and chickens but i also hunt boars every fall. sorry to say but this covers about 30-40% of my family of 4 needs. one hive of honey is also nowhere enough for the whole family. not even 2 hives if, like we do, you use honey as your only sweetener, unless you only feed the bees sugar and take away all the honey (tricky). let alone "selling" it. my house is also twice as big and my storage area too. the fucking "mini-orchard" kills me. i have 1 mature apple, apricot, 2 hazelnuts, 1 walnut, 2 persimmons, 2 cherries, 2 prunes, 1 orange and a couple minor fruiting trees. these take 3-4 years to begin producing anything worth eating. they produce for about 2-3weeks and you have fruit from april (cherries) to october-november(apples). then it's back to buying unless you want to eat preserves like a middle ages peasant. also take cherries, if you take care of the cherry fly you get 4-5 loads of cherries and feast on them for about those 3 weeks and make cherry wine and liquor to gift to friends. that's it, no more cherries. same for other fruits. you get in excess for a few weeks and then nothing, only preserves. also some fruits, like persimmons, are tricky to preserve so a lot goes rotten or composted. don't get me started on actual pest control in agricultural areas. one bad year and you lose 70% of your best producing trees. farming is a bitch. homesteading is worse. it's a lifestyle, not even a job. i could keep going. just making the chickens be productive instead of a waste of money is a whole art on its own and would take 3 maxed posts. the bees much more. it's all easy to produce "something". to live off it? whole other business. > china has automated agriculture i've had chink neighbors too. seas of fertilizers and shirtless digging every weekend is what they do. still didn't last over here. chinks have one advantage: cheap labor
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