Growing your own food just a hobby?

[QUOTE=COSunflower]OR actually pees in the field right beside what is being picked...QUOTE]
What is the matter with that if it is corn or something growing up high? Beats lugging jugs of the stuff out to the corn! LOL

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marching to the beat of a different drummer

I really have to go work as I am farming full time now. Lots of great discussions and comments here wish I could spare the time , I have already been on here way to long have to go pick wild blackberries fore dark as I am getting $4 a pint! at the market.How do you all find the time? I guess it helps having a computer at home probably

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marching to the beat of a different drummer

You have that right, Kitty! It took years for me to get my garden to where it is today, lots of experiments (some successful, some ... uh... interesting), and some outright slams from Nature.

The other people who are not thinking clearly are the ones who say, "No problem. We'll just go get some from our gardening friends. They always have plenty"

Ahem. I think not.

We are more than willing to help people learn to become more self-sufficient NOW, but our experience is usually like the one we have with our next door neighbors. Nice folks and all, but one weekend (when we were out working on one of the Jeeps), the neighbor fella looks over and says, "You guys work too hard!"

It was one of those, "HUH?" moments, y'know? When I'm in my garden, I'm in a state of bliss. Keeping the Jeeps running so we don't have car payments? Hey, great! (And I am a closet gear head, too...)

There is hope. We've been able to help our son's roommate get going with his garden, and he's having a blast. HE gets it.

But if there is ever an economic collapse, or times get harder than they are, there will be a lot of surprised and hungry people...

IMO, of course.

Pony!

Or a redistribution of the new "wealth". It isn't fair for those who work hard to have more than those who don't work hard or at all. At least our government thinks so or we wouldn't be taxed the way we are for the kind of programs that we are forced to support.

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Every good farm needs team work

So far I'd call it a hobby.
We store stuff and what we grow will last us through till next year. But anybody who thinks home canned beans taste different from store canned beans is loopy.
And when we can get em at 4/$1.00 at Aldis we get em.
Fresh is different and nothing beats a good vine ripened tomato from your own garden. But you can get those at the store now too. Not all the tomatoes there are the square solid variety anymore.
We get enjoyment, exercise, and a new appreciation of things from our garden. What you'd get out of a hobby.
We both have jobs off the place that we enjoy and allow us to do the things we enjoy and don't need to try to wring a living out of our homestead. So hobby would be the word for us.