How much acreage do you have?

No.
You can never have too much land.

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There is no way that you can have too much land unless you can't manage it right. I have 39 acres and it is a job to even get the grass cut.

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44 acres so far

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15 acres here

10 acres well actually 9.47 but about 1/2 is heavily wooded. I have too much yard especially when it needs to be mowed lol.

our combined family..us and son..have an adjoining acerage that amounts to 10 acres..we gave part to our son to put a house on..but we really use it together.

so 2 houses 2 garages lots of outbuildings..a pond between us and about 1/2 of it woods

We own 263 acres between two parcels. You can't have too much land they aren't making it anymore!

Over 50 and trying to buy more. So no, I guess you can't have enough. But we do run horses, cattle, and make various kinds of hay to sell. I WISH we had the original 110 acres that comprised this farm back to the 1970s.

We own about 1,100 acres. Give or take a few.

We live on about 4 acres a bit off of the center. This homestead has been here for about 232 years. It was probably built here because of the spring and the protecting ridge.

We farm about 20 acres right now raising pastured pigs which is our primary commercial crop in addition to sheep, chickens, ducks and geese.

We are expanding the farm to about 70 acres clearing what used to be old pastures back from forest. This is one of our big projects this year.

The rest is forest land which we log sustainably and a little bit of marsh land in the bottom of the valley.

We were fortunate to buy land when it was cheap, two real estate bubbles ago. We're also far enough out that it is less expensive and it is steep land, rocky mountain soil, so that also helps to keep the price down. Interestingly, there used to be an entire village here in our valley. All the houses are gone except ours...and that's going too. A few years ago we built a tiny masonry cottage and got out of the old drafty farm house. The old house is once again a barn, something it's been at times before over the centuries.

I would buy more land. There is no better investment. The land provides us with:
- a place to live
- water
- gardens for food
- edibles for foraging
- pastures to raise livestock
- hay for the animals (I'm working on this one)
- food to hunt and fish
- wood for heating and cooking
- logs for timber sales
- stone and sand to build with
- distance from neighbors (good walls and distance make good neighbors)
- a place to bury the bodies of those who are not (just checking if you're reading)
- an investment we can sell should we desperately need cash
- beauty of the changing seasons
- the goodness of life

One can never have too much land. The key is having the right land in the right place for your needs. Good land can be harvested from sustainably to pay for itself.

Cheers

-Walter
Sugar Mountain Farm
in the mountains of Vermont
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We use our land for the same things, Walter. Plus the taxes are paid by renting out the open fields to local farmers on the second parcel. The timber sales on both parcels make a tidy income as well.

9.2
There is never too much

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5 1/2 acres here and like Ronbre in a previous post said , we gave our son 1 acre and share all the land. so 6 1/2 all together. It its plenty for us to have a big garden and a bunch of animals.

I have 50 acres

8.7 acres, but we are trying to do as much with it as we can.

This made me LOL I love the way you put it.

We have 10 acres, which we at first thought might not be enough. After living on the place for 6 years, I can tell you all that 10 acres often feels like TOO much.

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by Wendy

11.5 acres in S Mo that is about 7 acres hay, 2.5 acres wooded and the rest pond, garden, and house/barn lot. Also have 1/4 acre in Alaska where we currently live for the next few month but are going to sell.

We are already looking for a couple more acres wooded where we can get firewood for the outdoor furnace.

Oh by the way, the 1/4 acre in Alaska (without the house) is worth more than the entire farm in MO.

We have 90 acres. Most of it is in forest management, about 10 acres of field. It is surrounded on 2 sides by 1000's of acres of county memorial forest and another side by hundreds of acres of conservation land. In other words, the 1 neighbor we have right now will be our only neighbor ever.

15 acres here. About 1/2 is wooded for hunting and fuel, the rest is garden, house, barn and pasture. We are looking to have more in the near future.

I own 6 acres, plus rent another 12acres. I'd love to own the 12 plus another 10 on the other side of my property. Someday....

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"Nature is cruel, we don't have to be." Temple Grandine

I've just gotten interested and decided to start where I am on 1/10 acre...lol. But considering it's just me I should have plenty of room to grow all my produce.

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