>>1134117

You know something?

At this rate they're gonna have to do a parade to end all parades.

Let's try cruising west on 80 and then cruise back east on 40…. give everyone a good chance to participate.

Will be way too many people in Washington DC they won't even be able to have a parade there!!!!!

>>1134214

I've already got a grand a month coming in. Disabled. However, work rules make it a royal pain in the ass. Can only work 20 hours or less a week and take in less than 1000 a month. I can easily do it though with handyman work at $20 an hour.

Don't have enough savings to feel comfortable yet.

>>1134229

I live in a small town in rural Iowa. Land here (right now) is way too expensive and I hate payments. Hoping to see the interest rates rise to a good level- 8-10% would be good- and then the market will favor cash buyers and savers again. 10% interest is close to $1000 an acre for ground that pays $300 an acre a year in rent. May consider a relocation to the Ozarks for what I want though.

>>1134390

>>1134260

I am on disability, severely hard of hearing.

Current rules say that if I try something and get off disability, I have to wait 60 days to get my disability back if something doesn't work out.

I don't have 60 days worth of savings because of other rules regarding medical insurance- they won't give me medical if I have over $2,000 of cash. Disability is $1000 a month.

So I'm screwed to get my disability back within a reasonable amount of time if something happened. so I work within the rules that I am given with my disability benefits. Working <20 hours a week, make less than $1100 net per month and they don't mess with my disability benefits.

If they want to really make things happen within the terms of the current system eliminating the 60 day wait time on returning benefits would be a huge help. 30 days is fine.

>>1134557

I don't plan on killing myself for a organic farm, that's for sure. That's why I want a manufacturing business along with a farm… food prices aren't high enough to justify farming yet. 5-10 acres would easily be a good plenty… enough to eat very well and sell some of it.

Bob Due of Terraced Gardens Farm is a GREAT teacher if you are looking for inspiration. You shouldn't be retiring for health… how old are you? 85? The farm should be GIVING you good health!!!!!

>>1134581

>>1134650

You imply that farming should be 2 yrs mandatory service.

What about fixing the farming system so that the price of food is high enough that decent farmers can make a decent living?

Farming has never been and should never be an industry that is subsidized by the government, BUT at the same time it cannot be shackled by the government either!!!!

If the country is going to make a commitment to using oil to grow food, then the price of oil needs to stay at a reasonable level. Otherwise farmers need to go back to using horsepower because the commitment isn't there on a national level.

If the prices on both ends of the spectrum were balanced out properly no one would have a problem with farming, as it would offer a good living. Right now it DOESN'T.

>>1134730

Craziness. Hope you can start again with a small garden and do things like Bob Due does. Albrecht/Arden Andersen/Kinsey/Sally Fallon/Weston Price are all my heroes. I've studied using a refractometer and tracking plant sugars for the most resistant crops.

Heart attacks can be stopped with a dose of cayenne pepper…. low magnesium causes chest pains.

The information is out there….just have to know how to use it.

Bob Due does everything with a walking tractor on less than 10 acres and makes more than a full time living, and he beats the state record for yields.

Did I tell you he's pushing 80? Just got himself a new chick from the Philippines.

>>1134752

Same thing in the Missouri Ozarks. Just can't be within about 2 hours of Branson.

Arkansas Ozarks are even better. I don't think I want to be that far south and the land is better in Missouri.

>>1134699

I don't know what kind of kool-aid you're drinking but it's some pretty strong sauce.

There aren't too many farmers by a LONG SHOT.

Short fact of the matter…. not enough farmers equals the rest of us getting poisoned!!!!!!

There might be "too many farmers" who want to kill you….. but there aren't enough farmers that want to give you good health!!!!!!!

>>1134844

Truth!!!!!!

I know of a couple in Fairfield, Iowa who own the 4 acre watershed for their pond and they drink the water out of their pond.

>>1134917

Read Stephen Leslie's books on horse powered farming.

"If current trends continue, in 40 years there will be more farmers farming with horses than with conventional machinery."

Yes, there is still a place for horses on the modern farm. Actually, there isn't really a place for tractors on the modern farm except for plowing every couple of years if a person didn't want to keep a 4 horse team around.

You would be amazed to find out how many farmers are farming with horses and making a VERY good living doing it.

And it's just ecologically smart.