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   8/13/09

   Jaybetee

   I wish I owned a farm. Alas, I am stuck smack dab in the middle of the suburban sprawl. I have been telling my wife a lot lately that the next time we move it either has to be to a thriving urban area where I can walk/ride to shops/restaurant/etc. or it had to be in a rural area where I can enjoy the outdoors. I hate suburbia and I am now convinced it will be the death of culture in America.
   
   To get back on subject though, I do not own a farm. There a re a lot of lavender farms nearby here and wineries too. I think a lavender farm would be cool, not only is it pretty but it smells so good. I also think that in my older age, I'd like to have a dog boarding ranch. Wake up, go for a hike with a bunch of dogs, lunch, another late afternoon dog hike, dinner, bed...sounds like a good day to me!

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   8/13/09

   FreakSmack

   I wish, I have a friend with ten acres who let me put my hogs on his land (Which was cool as hell of him), but I'm working on getting my own.

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      8/13/09

      amybyrd21

      my hogs are on an acer lot with a big barn on it and a big mud hole. They love it. We want more land and are working towards that in the future
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      8/13/09

      FreakSmack

      It's so hot down here I had to dig mine a pond 16 ft circle 4 ft deep because the mud was drying out too fast, we are way short on rain, usually I'm pumping water out of there this time of year
3. 

   8/13/09

   SweetViolet

   My grandparents bought a farm in Oregon in the early 1930s. When my grandmother died in 1992, my father inherited half of it...88 acres in the foothills of the Cascades. We lived on that farm when I was little and after we moved to town, I spent summers there.
   
   Real farming is a tough way to live. I was not fond of spending hot summer days in the steaming kitchen, canning the veg and fruit that would be winter meals. I absolutely hated plucking chickens. I didn't mind grooming the horses, but mucking out the stalls was not high on my list of fun things to do. I loved the baby goats (my grandmother kept Angora goats) but their mothers weren't so much fun and the billy goat smelled just rank.
   
   Farming is a lot of hard, hard work. It is costly...farm equipment is not cheap (my other grandparents had a tractor dealership), irrigation equipment is not cheap, and the weather can be fickle. My father now leases the land to a Christmas tree grower. If your Christmas tree has a tag saying "Silver Mountain Limited," there is a good chance it was grown on my father's farm!
   
   I would love living on some big acreage, but I've done my time mucking and grubbing and canning and mulching...I'll stick with breeding Yorkies on my 1/3 acre just up the road from the beach, thank you!

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   8/15/09

   surveygirl46

   No, except the one face book gave me - farm town but i dont know where it's located

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   8/15/09

   Anok

   Not yet. We plan on someday having a small plot of land and a few livestock such as chickens and goats.

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6. 

   8/27/09

   Bricore

   Our place is call Honeysuckle Hill. We have a few "farm" critters here. Dairy goats, brush goats, rabbits, chickens, horses, and so on..

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   8/27/09

   LGramlich

   Not really, but years ago I used to raise game birds & rabbits with my ex. Among others, we had ring-necked & red-golden pheasants, harlequin & rouen ducks, chukar partridge, bobwhite, button & Gambel's quail, peacocks (for a while,) turkeys and award-winning, white Wyandotte bantam chickens, all on about a half acre of land (& in the spare garage & the incubator & a brooder in our bedroom, at least for a while.)

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   8/27/09

   owlbarn

   I wish I had one. But we get our milk from a local farm and it's always fun to visit the animals there and feed them. The farm owner gets her farm animals from other people who don't need them any more or found them.
   Thanks for sharing your farm pics.

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