How big is your homestead?

80 Acres:

5: will be the home site, the barn goes in this July.
9: Underwater, pond the house will overlook.
19: Crop field, beans this year
25: Hardwoods
22: Ex-CRP that we're turning into hay/pasture.

We live in town right now 12 miles away and use it primarily for recreation. The plan is to build in a couple years.

Chuck

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Might does not make right, but it sure makes what is.

5 acres

Still developing. 20 chickens, maybe more since I hear cheeping sounds, 3 guineas plus the neighbors 20 that come to visit, 2 cats.

House, barn, shed and chicken coop. One tractor that DH is really proud of.

We are in the process of adding on to the house so my parents can live with us.

100 x 200 garden, raised herb beds.

Still to build - goat barn, green house and more fencing.

SIGH! It never ends, but sure is fun.

Somewhere a little over 160... and it's not hardly enough. Have tried to double that several times, trying to purchase neighbors when they sold out. Twice I 'thought' I had 'deals', and then they welched on me.

A person can Never have too much buffer between them and other humans.

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Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival. W. Edwards Deming

I have about 100 acres, which is mainly forested with a large river and beaver ponds. I only have to really maintain 1 acre around the house so it's nott too much to keep up. Chris

108 acres, but we're only using maybe two acres, counting the house and yard. We're putting in a new well and plan to plant an orchard soon and possibly get some goats. When that's done, we'll still be using 5 acres or less.

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“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
- C S Lewis

Spinner's Lap Cloths (and more) at Bede Sisters

52 acres
House, shop, barn, 2 greenhouses, old milk house, a well house and a run in shed.
20 is pastured for horses and goats. 20 acres for hay, 10 acres wooded, and 2 acres lawn, gardens, fruit trees, etc.

203 acres.

175 acres. 10 acres fields, 3 acre pond, 2 acres orchard and the rest timber.

My husband and I are hoping to close on our property in the next two weeks. It is an 83 acre farm in Kentucky with about 60 acres cleared. We've been doing a lot of research and are very excited about starting our homestead! There is a beautiful almost 100 year old house, 3 outbuildings and a barn that I'll be redoing shortly for our horses.

28 acres here in sw. Va I have goats on about 10 the rest is woods been workin on fencing the woods I got about 3/4 of another 5 acres fenced

156.8 acres in South AB Canada. More land than I know what to do with, and entirely grass. It had no buildings when we got it either, but it was fenced, at least. We will be sharing it with another larger family this summer, so hopefully we can make the best of it.

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Go Big or Go Home!!
1 Tim 3:2-3 "Preach the Word. Be ready in season and out. Convince, Rebuke, Exhort with all long-suffering and teaching."

We have 12 acres here in central Il. Only about 1 1/2 is for the house and 8 is in pasture fence for 1 belgian horse. The rest is currently a hay field and houses 85 laying hens. Just the right size for us right now.

3 + acres in SE Texas, we are currently hoping to get the 2 acres next door or behind us!

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Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller

35 acres in pasture and 25 in timber.

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"Knowledge didn't hatch out on a flat rock." Clayton Peary

We have a total of 25 acres. Our home and 5 out buildings occupy 3 acres, hay field is 8, woods are 14 acres. We have a picnic/camping area in our woods for family gatherings...a nice get away spot!

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Dave

"Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded" (2 Chronicles 15:7)