Comment by Our_Benefactors
4 hours ago
> get a pot of land and grow your own food
Rejecting industrialized society is actually very expensive
4 hours ago
> get a pot of land and grow your own food
Rejecting industrialized society is actually very expensive
"industrialized society" just rejected 160,000 sofware engineers this year. other industries are no better. you are either wage-slave barely making it. or getting laid off, as those people are not needed.
There were layoffs yes. The solution is to pursue something that on a small scale is net negative financially? Get out of here.
Artisanal food for hipsters is always going to be a market. People are willing to pay a premium for locally or regionally grown produce, fruit, eggs and meat.
However, it's a risky business so I'd only recommend getting started if you either (!) are FIRE already even after sinking 3 million bucks into purchasing land and machinery as well as constructing all the buildings or if you join a cooperative/union or if you got experienced farmers in your family.
Everything else - especially following "prepper" influencers shilling books and holding more public speeches to shill for said books than they are actually working on their farm - is a recipe for certain disaster.
If in doubt... first try raising a few dozen chickens in your yard as a starting point.
> If in doubt... first try raising a few dozen chickens in your yard as a starting point.
No. Just try to make a 5x8 plot to grow vegetables and realise how ridiculously hard it is.
> No. Just try to make a 5x8 plot to grow vegetables and realise how ridiculously hard it is.
That works out as well, yeah.
Chickens have the advantage that they eat almost anything and they'll give you eggs. Loads of eggs. More eggs than you can realistically eat if you're not into weightlifting. And especially, they give you eggs for a looooong time - if you eat that salad or tomato, it's gone. The chicken lasts longer, and you can make it into some delicious soup at the end. But for that you need to be able to stomach killing the chicken, which frankly I do not lol.