Is it normal to wanting to live as a farmer?

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I grew tired of life as it is nowadays. So much pollution in many places (social media, relationships, work, etc.) and my dream of becoming a writer has been ruined a long time ago. I have a shit planned life I don't want to and I know I won't be successful in the big city.

My family is from the countryside, but they live in a better place in town where it couldn't be called "meadow". After thinking for a good amount of time, I decided I wanted to live as a farmer.

I heard stories from my grandparents and seen farmers having a peaceful life, with less worries than a successful worker in big city, and having such an amazing array of knowledge in many activities such as carpentry, engineering, drawing, cooking, sewing, gardening, etc.
As in my actual condition, I barely know how to cook bc I spend most of my time studying and eating fast food. The only thing I do decently is draw. The rest is basically a nightmare for me to do. I'm in university and, even if I do enjoy the projects, I have a hard time feeling happy being there and talking with people.

I always liked the idea of living in a place with different animals, being independent and be some sort of jack-of-all-trades, to create useful things like building a bed or a whole cabin, forge a knife or other things like hammer, molding kitchen utensils with baked clay...
The list goes on, but it's more of a feeling of wanting to be useful and having a calm life, being more modest and get rid of my greedy feeling of wanting to buy clothes or shoes to look pretty.

Is it possible to drop everything and start my own farm? What would I need to start this new lifestyle?

(I almost forgot but I know someone will say "you need to buy acres before doing anything", but my grandma have an abandoned terrain she bought years ago. So it's almost 1/3 of the way completed)

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Tealights

4 years ago

You're romanticizing something that requires an immense amount of hard-work, self-discipline, and dedication.

My advice, if you have family members currently living on a farm, I suggest you live with them for 3 months. Or you can join a farming program where they teach you the basics.

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- Anonymous Post Author
  
  4 years ago
  
  I know farming is something difficult, since my parents told me they hated living in a farm when everything was so easy and accessible and basically the life of a farmer was painful and expensive. But I always neglected their comments bc they always wanted to live in big cities.
  Nowadays I have my aunt that lives in a small farm. She doesn't have any machines like tractors or anything (sorry I don't know any names in English bc it's not my first language)
  She mostly uses horses and cows to prepare the land to cultivate.
  Sometimes I go there to visit her and do some tasks she gives me, but recently my body got atrophied bc of health problems, so it's a bit hard to do any hard labor for now.
  
  And yeah, I'll have to create a habit to have more self-discipline and dedication. I just don't know where to start. Also, my intentions on having a farm aren't for commercial purposes.
  
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  - Tealights
    
    4 years ago
    
    It really sound like you didn't put much thought into this and with such health problems that may require physical therapy to fully recover would put your farming fantasy on hold for a long time.
    
    From what I read, it seems like you're just hitting a rough patch in life. Which is understandable due the health problems and writers block you've mentioned. However, uprooting just to run away from failure isn't wise.
    
    Try again. Do your best. You're a good writer, because I would have never guessed English was your second language; and you have such passion in your words. If you can, while you recover from your illness, you can write a short novel on a farmer who is as you described in your post, a jack of all trades.
    
    I wish you the best.
    
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    - Anonymous Post Author
      
      4 years ago
      
      Yeah, you're correct. I didn't put too much thought bc it's not something I have a lot of knowledge about, so it's more of a dream than an actual, concrete objective for now.
      
      I guess I'll start with small things like making a mini greenhouse in my house's backyard (I can get my father's help on this one) or plant things like tomatoes, peppers, onions or beans in pots that I can manage without being something huge that will take too much space. Maybe with this I can learn other things about certain types of land to cultivate, climate, types of vegetables, time of growth and harvest, etc.
      
      Thanks, I'll take your tips in consideration.
      
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LloydAsher

4 years ago

Farming now a days require extensive planning and investment. Before every average Joe could start up a farm to produce thier food and have profit. Now a days you sound like you want to be a farmer right out of the gate.
If you are smart get an associate degree in agriculture and hope you have enough finances to start one.

Or you can be rational and just start a little homestead as a second property and build it up over time, learning as you go. While retaining your current profession. Doing the farming as a relaxing side hobby.

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SwickDinging

4 years ago

Farming is a lot of work, but all of the individual things you have mentioned here are things that wouldn't be too hard to learn. I would say just go for it, but when considering my opinion bear in mind that I live a lifestyle similar to this now and it brings me joy, so I am very biased. I barely remember what it's like to live in a big city and have all that convenience at my fingertips. My lifestyle isn't for everyone.

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[Old Memory]

4 years ago

I want some property to live as a farmer. But I more want to just farm for me and live of what I grow... Oh I need lots of room to ride around on quadies!

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donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

4 years ago

airable land aint cheap

yalls new tractor is gonna cost twice as much as a new ferrari and itll be way more expensive to maintain than a ferrari

yalls crops intellectual property rights is gonna be owned by monsanto and theyll squish yall like a fuckin mosquito if yall dont pay em accordinly

also has yall done a days hard labor in yalls life? theres gonna be lots

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