How big is your homestead?

[HippyDippy]

Just curious how big your homestead is?


My partner and I have about an acre and a half of land in the "county". It is in a neighborhood but our property is on a corner lot so we aren't surrounded by neighbors. Although not totally self sufficient we are working on it! We have a solar oven, some solar lights, we hang our clothes out to dry on sunny days. We are in our third year of gardening. I expanded the size to 24" x 16". I'm hoping to learn canning so we can have a good food supply on hand. So how big is your homestead and where is it?

[Homesteadwi5]

Our current place is 4 acres,our new place is 10 acres with the option to pick up an additional 61 acres.

[AlyCarm]

I'm so excited to say that our homestead is 160 acres, a full quarter section!!! We just bought it in an auction for $180,000. I am so happy and have done nothing but plan my "wish list". Only down size is that only 3 acres are cultivated, the rest is wooded and a creek.... and thats not much to complain about

[thequeensblessing]

We own 16 acres, and we currently lease another 5 1/2 acres. We are trying to buy the 5 1/2 acres. (My sister owns it, but lives in Florida and never uses it.)

Nine acres thereabouts.

.....Alan.

[firegirl969]

18 acres

[Elsbet]

Hmmm, that's a rather personal question!

(just kidding.) We are working on about an acre, with a little extra to use when we need it.

[TRAILRIDER]

We have 10 acres here, house, horse barn, stock barn and pond. I've never been happier. I would love to have about 20 more in pasture so I could raise a few beef calves and goats (without buying much more feed.) I'd be happy on 1 or 100 acres myself, so long as it was in the country. We are surrounded by three 100 acre farms and 600 acres of Nature Consevancy land, at the end of a road and acroos a cattle guard! Mary.

[paynecountry]

We're sitting on 15 at the moment. Smack dab in the middle of two pastures on either side. One at 65 acres and the other at just over 200. Both owners on either side know we're willing to purchase them if they ever come up for sale. If not, we're content with our little tract in the middle and can grow what we need on the land that we own. It'd just be nice to have a little more...

[farmerjon]

28.9 Now woods. House was built in 1860 the barn there around then. The rest is a pond and pasture/hay fields. I have about 5 that im tring to get to grow over some. I have planted a few trees for the deer. Word has it the 180 or so peice across the street may be comming up soon. Would love to by it, but like most its takin all we Have for what we got. Its enouf.

[Yvonne's hubby]

We have 37 acres, mostly cleared land with just enough woods to hide the house from the road. I keep about 20 acres or so in pasture for the cattle, another 7 or 8 is hayfield, probably 2 acres is useless because the boundary goes to the center of the creek that runs along one side of the place. then theres woods and the yard area around the house for gardening, parking for equipment, barn and the like.

[mooman]

3.3 acres
(does saying the .3 part make me sound like a kid telling you he's not four, he's four and a half?)

1,000sqft house
small barn
floodplain garden
creek and all year spring
Best part is that it's well off the main road and all the property around me is 5+ acre parcels owned by single families. I cannot see any of the plots being developed into "neighborhoods" as I am at the base of a foothill and the undeveloped land behind me is pretty steep.
It is awesome for now, but I will definitely need more space in the future. You 10+ acre homesteaders make me jealous.

[MullersLaneFarm]

10.8 acres and leasing another 2 for pasture. barn with hay mow, machine shed, workshop, couple of chicken coops, house. Orchard with apples, peaches, pears, cherries, grape arbor, 2 gardens about 35'X70', apiary.

only missing a woodlot and a creek

[7thswan]

We have 40 ac. on a hill. At the bottem of the hill is a stream and beyond that are woods, maybe 2 ac. All the rest we put in alfala and pasture. I guess about 1 ac. is the "yard" where the gardens,barns and house are. We had 21 ac. that we sold to a young couple with children that will homstead also.

[mammabooh]

10 acres. We bought the house, 2 barns, and the 10 acres after my great aunt died (my family has been here since 1917). The farm was 102 acres, but we didn't have that kind of cash. A very nice fellow bought the rest of it and is farming it (as opposed to putting in houses), so we are very tickled.

[Callieslamb]

7 acres now - all cleared, almost no trees. Nice horse barn.

This is up from the 1.2 acres we had before. all cleared, almost no trees. Nice barn/shop.

And if it would STOP RAINING I might get something done!

[Terri]

We own just under an acre. Chcikens, fruit trees, bees, a garden.

We WERE going to expand onto 5 acres outside of town, and we even bought the 5 acres! Alas, life happens. MAybe later, the land will still be there!

[woodsy]

25 acres, 22 of it wooded, been keeping the 3 acres mowed for future pasture land if we decide to get into livestock.
Have good size gardens and expand some every year it seems, lots of sweet corn, tomatoes, peppers(both hot and sweet) and potatoes etc. etc..
The woods have saved us lots of $$, we never buy lumber or firewood, cut it, haul it out w/old '51 JD tractor, have lumber milled w/portable band saw right here.
Acreage is good.

[whinnyninny]

My homestead was 14 acres, right between two farm fields totalling around 80-90 acres, I liked the quiet country setting. I'm now on 1/3 acre in an older neighborhood. I try to grow what I can on it, but when we bought it I sort of overlooked the fact that it had a bunch of post oak trees, which means lots and lots of shade and not very many sunny spots for growing veggies!

When we were looking at homes around here, we found one area that was a neighborhood of homes on 1-2 acre lots, I didn't like it... way too cramped for my taste. (Okay, and most of the peoples' yards were filled with junk!)

[How Do I]

We have fifty acres, five of it being in grass. Sometimes I wonder if it's too much. Didn't realize from the beginning that so much could be done with so little. But I am always thankful for what we have.