How big is your homestead?

5 1/2 acres and thats enough for me to take care of .I had a chance to buy 8 more and we decided we will pay off what we got and take care of it.

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Zone 6

Have 20 acres.All woods now.

big rockpile

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I love being married.Its so great to find that one person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.



If I need a Shelter
If I need a Friend
I go to the Rock!

2.5 acres... mostly hillside(steep ravine area) which we are "modifying" to fit our homestead needs. Just planted a 12-tree orchard and willeventually have chickens and ducks. Now, just the dogs and an indoor(by choice)cat. I would love to find about 20 acres but doubt I'll actually ever move again while I'm alive We are in southeast washington state

Wow a lot of variety! We keep hoping the two lots behind us go up for sale so we can expand our property LOL

Just shy of 70 acres with half in timber and half grass and about 3 acres smack in the middle (that I get too mow every week for the next 6 months) with house,outbuildings,garden and a 3 acre goat pasture. 2 neighbors a little over 1/4 mile away and the next 1/2 mile away.

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We have now officially entered the twilight zone.

14.509 acres

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"Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow the fields of those who don't."-Thomas Jefferson

2.3 acres here, but we're looking at buying 5 more from the people that own the fallow field around us.

(keeping my fingers crossed they're willing to sell )

ETA: You might like this website/blog: http://www.urbanhomestead.org/ It's about a family that has a small city lot, but garden so intensively and carefully that they're able to produce thousands of pounds of produce each year. Of course they're in California and can garden year round, which doesn't hurt LOL

130 to much for old people like us

The 18 acres consist of fenced drive with gate for protection, 15 acres pasture/hayfields with 2 acre pond, grape vines, blueberries, asparagus bed, garlic bed, 7 raised bed, wild dewberries and blackberries, 2 apple, 2 crabapple, 2 cherry, 4 pear, and 2 plum trees, 1/4 acre garden, solar clothes drying system (4 strand clothesline), steer, feeder pig, 4 rabbits, 17 chickens, and 5 dogs. We have a deep well with electricity and a generator for backup and a bored well with bucket and hand pump. We are on-grid, but are in the process of adding solar for our porch/family area for tv/dvd/radio/blender. We are also in the process of adding a root cellar.

We have almost 17 acres.

Dave

66 acres here, about 7 cleared the rest wooded.

18.5 plus the use of 10 more...

4 in pasture, 14 in brush(old pasture), 5 thin woods, 5 heavily wooded.
about .5 for the house.

We homestead a third of an acre in the Atlanta suburbs- at the dismay of our next door neighbor.

I have 80 acres. 75 acres are in CRP. About 1 acre of the CRP is wild plums, the rest is grass.

4.84 acres. We have Nigerian Dwarf goats, chickens, and a couple of Dexter heifers. Garden area that is approximately 75'x25' with room to expand. And a 18 tree orchard with space to expand.

I would love to have something slightly larger - say in the 10 acre range. Neighbor's 4.3 acres next door is for sale, but there is no way we can afford to buy it.

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Wags Ranch Nigerians


"The Constitution says to promote the general welfare, not to provide welfare!" ~ Lt. Col Allen West

17 acres, big house, big barn, 3 wells, a spring, a creek and loads of animals. Horses, highlands, dogs, chickens, turkeys...ducks coming soon! All pastures are 4 board fenced and cross fenced.

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83 acres in all, 30 or so in hardwoods, 18 acres of bottom land that we hay and the rest is pasture for the cows and goats and donkeys.

Oh meadow Lake! Super beautiful area! We are on the west side of Alberta, about 1.5 hours from the BC border, Northeast of Grande Prairie. I have already started packing and the countdown is 31 sleepies!!!!

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Mother of 3 wild children, 3 dogs, 3 cats, 2 polish rabbits, 2 QH's, 1 Morgan (bred to friesian), 2 mini horses, 4 fire-bellied newts, 1 guppy and a budgie

40 acres. I'm fighting with the little pine trees that keep cropping up everywhere....and I'm losing the fight badly without a brushhog.

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The less I seek my source for some definitive - The closer I am to fine.

http://williampalmerhomestead.weebly.com/

We have 13 acres that have been in my husband's family since the late 1800's. It started as much more, but over the years it has been pieced out. We are still surrounded by family though, so it works out well. Our house was built by my husband's great-grandfather in 1903 and we still have an old cabin out back that they lived in and "borrowed" from while they built this house. It's down to only one room now, but the heart pine is amazing and it's still in great structural shape! It also has a large buggy house out back that we use for some storage and for the dogs to sleep in during warmer months.