I want to have a farm. I want to start out growing grasses (hay) and move on to dairy. beyond that I have no plan. this seems like a good direction for my life.
Woow dairy is a 365 day job, up at daylight to milk then milking in the evening before they go to bed. Lots and lots of work.
but, I'd be working hard for something that was not killing my soul, one day at a time, I've done 365 jobs before, really, it's not that bad to have that kind of restriction when you are really pretty free.
seriously though, hard work, twice a day, depending on the number of cattle, and how the dairy was processed, probably 10 hours a day of work, yeah, but without a fascist psycho manager telling you all kinds of bullshit procedures designed because they don't pay well enough to maintain a workforce with the skills they need to do the job. pff, sounds pretty fucking good to me.
honest to god, I was trying to figure out the best way to do that tonight. I don't think it's really tenable, mostly because agricultural areas deal with a great many overflights, and any kind of hemp looks really distinctive, but actual sticky green buds are REALLY distinctive, you'd have to set up one of your barns as a growroom, OR put a growroom under the barn where the cows slept (ir photography would be moot because of the cow warmth, and if you set up the sewage flow away from the cows properly, you'd have a really easy fertilization system)
herusalem artichokes, it's a variety of sunflower (despite it's name) that has VERY high starch content, and can be harvested three times a year, if it is harvested three times a year, with modern farming technologies, the biomass can render 1200 gallons of ethanol per acre, even more butanol (thanks to butanol being cellulossic)
Rent out your farmland to godmodding biofuel growers. Yes, biofuel is the shittiest answer to the fuel crisis, but my God, they pay well.
