what's the difference b/w homesteading & farming?

Both Act 60 and Act 68 have provision for "Homestead Exemptions" or discounts on the statewide school property tax for your home and two acres of your property based on your current income level.

To qualify you'd need to have an income which falls below the set point. Your property tax prebate is then based upon a sliding scale percentage of your income... anything in excess of that "allowable percentage" is refunded to you in a prebate check. Usually in August.

I agree with Alan. Homesteading is a lifestyle and farming is an occupation. Being older than dirt I remember when most of the farms in my area were what we would consider homesteads today. I have farmed and I have homesteaded and I have done them both together and apart from each other.

The mega farms you see today are factories. They are owned by big corporations and they hire "workers". In my neighborhood at least 100 farms have been gobbled up by the big corporations in the past 15 years. The one closest to me gets almost a million dollars a year in aid from the government each year.

When I say I am against farm aid, it is because of that. I know people don't like to look at farming as a business, but it has to be run like a business or you just can not make it.

Just because I like to make baskets, doesn't mean I expect my government to help me be able to do it for a living. I see that welfare mentality in farming and I just don't get it.