How big is your homestead?

We have 4 acres mainly woods. Working on coverting some to garden and fencing for goats.

.15 (yes, 1/6 of an acre!) But we have 7 acres patiently waiting our arrival and subsequent homesteading. Right now, it's mature hardwoods, and much of it will stay that way, but there will be room for a house, garden, barn, and a few critters.

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I ended up with 10 acres and trying to get a neighbors 5 acres also.

29 acres surrounded by thousands of acres of privately owned, unused, and unfenced property for the animals to play and eat on.

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Wow! I thought the 1 1/2 acre we have was alot of work and alot of land, maybe it's cuz it's our first house and piece of property. I wouldn't know what to do with 60 or more acres. I just wish we had it all fenced in! Nice to see the few who have small homesteads also. I always say, just work with what you have.

6 acres of fieldgrass with a treeline / hedgerow down the east & west sides. North is the road and south is another 20 acres of field and a pond belonging to our neighbor that we could lease from him if we ever needed it. We've been here just 6 months, breaking ground on the vegetable garden, and picking up my first batch of chicks on Monday.

We currently have 50 acres and will be closing on the 40 next to us the end of May. It is mostly wooded, with about 12 acres of swamp / pond. There are hundreds of acres of county forest to the east of us and hundreds of conservation land to the south and west of us. Most the other acreage is forest or hay fields. We have a small field (about 5 acres) where we have a large 50 x 100 fenced in garden. We are currently in the process of getting the house and 5 acres ready to sell and building behind that.

3.38 acres, and we're hoping to buy the 1.5 next door.

About 2/3 of an acre is wooded, and the rest is pasture and garden. We also own the drainage ditch that runs along the north side of the property, but we choose to call it our 'creek'

Chickens, horses, veggie garden, grapes, blackcurrants, gooseberries, strawberries, rhubarb and I just planted 2 pear, a peach and an apricot tree, and my new apple tree came today.

900 +/- sf brick house built in 1935.

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We have an acre plus. Have fruit trees,blackberries,strawberries,lots of flower beds,pigeons,chickens, ducks,dachsunds,and a small cagebird avairy.

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"Whose woods these are I think I know
His house is in the village tho...."

1.67 acres. Not big, but just right for us. On that we raise chickens, geese, goats, and a garden, fruit trees and if they come back this year, raspberries and black berries. We have an herb garden and are backed up to the forest for fire wood. It works.

80 acres inheirited, unimproved, 40 of which is hay meadow, the other is pasture, creek & pond.

2.07 acres, about 10 miles east of town. I'm not a farmer or a rancher by any stretch of the imagination, but I did build my own 2-story cabin so I could live rent & mortgage free. 2 acres is plenty of area for me.

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About 1350 acres, about 480 of that is rented. Unless somebody offers me some more to rent before I finish planting which has been happening just about every year.

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3.5 acres with an old farm house, horse barn, other outside buildings, orchard, garden area and pasture. Wish we had just a few more acres and a LONG driveway so we'd have more privacy. Other than that it's our "little piece of heaven".

We have 120 about 45 acres open rest in woods some hardwood and some in 13,000 pines that are 13 years old. Only use about five acres for shops, house gardens orchard. Getting old and hate bushhogging for no good reason but to keep the land open that is open. Put 50 acres in the paper for sell but so far no one that wants to live and homestead. Two offers of new houses they can't sell, two cash offers of full price that want to subdivide it. They could not belive we would turn them down. If we can not find people who want it to live on I guess we will just keep it.

We have just over 4 acres here at home and 40 miles away we have "the land" which is about 29 acres. The 4 acres has the house , the chicken shed, the barn, the pool etc.
"The land" is our dream. Nothing but an old run down camper there and a ton of Ticks, But still "the land" is the dream. Sure hope I won't be too old to enjoy it when we get there. At 52,,I think we best hurry.

We own 40 acres with an old farmhouse,hipped roof barn and outbuildings. We winter our cows here and in the summer lease 500 acres for their grazing along with 100 acres for haying. We have our cows,laying chickens,broilers and cats. We raise a large garden and enjoy the simple ways,Dawn

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'This too shall pass'

6 acres, most of it pasture or soon to be fenced for pasture. House, big barn with loft, corn crib (sheep house), machine shed, potting shed, piano shop. 6 fruit trees, 1600 sq. ft. veg & corn garden, melon patch. Home to 2 people, 2 dogs, 6 cats, 7 chickens, 12 sheep, and soon 2 hogs. This thread has me singing "Little Foothills Heaven" by Corb Lund. Check it out on YouTube!

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62 acres - about 25 in field rented to our neighbor who is a "real" farmer. The rest is wooded. A small pond and a lovely stream.

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Give me a sweet home set among the trees,
With friends whose words are ever kind and true.
-Phoebe Carey-

LONE PINE FARM
Barnesville, PA
Boer goats, Angora goats, Eclectic mix of poultry

13 acres, 2 of it the homesite, 11 in pasture. Two barns, apple tree, pear tree, 4 grapevines, lots of peach trees and who knows what else. It's my first full year here... I haven't identified every tree or bush. Got 2 cows, 17 chickens, two hives, three dogs and two cats... so far. Putting in a garden and have planted some blueberry and raspberry plants.