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haele

(15,436 posts)
51. Sustainment farms require large or extended families...
Wed Aug 13, 2025, 10:49 AM
Aug 2025

Unlike the YouTube TradLife type influencer farms.
The old English Country Manor farms or Colonial farmsteads typically ran a quarter system of land management; 3/4 of the "farm" was business, and 1/4 (typically 10 - 20 acres) was for the family food sources.
My 3x Grandparents ran a local general store supporting their local farming community of around 10 families, including their parent's farm; they also had a small sustainment plot in their 2 acre backyard for chickens (rich folks had chickens in their yard, poor folks shared pigs), the family mule (which they often rented out), two fruit trees, and a fruit and veggie plot.
Planting and harvest time, they and their 4 surviving kids would pitch in before and after the store was open on the business side of family farm, bringing in seed or fertilizer from the common community stores, and brining to he harvest to the processing mills or boxing plants to ship out to the buyers
Excess that wasn't eaten immediately from the sustainment plots everyone grew would be canned or otherwise preserved and either stored in a spring house or basement or sold to the grocer to sell to neighbors.
That was the way most farms work around the world.
They are businesses or communal efforts necessary to survive, not hobbies.
Even ancient Hunter-gatherers needed to collect into large groups to be able to provide enough food over the lean times to keep most of the individuals alive.
An individual living alone (or even a small family) had few options to keep himself or herself alive for any length of time before they had to depend on a larger group of helpers to get their survival needs together for, say, a few months of winter.

Just the exhaustion gathering enough food for the long term will kill an individual survivalist quick after two or three months without help or a large supply storage system.

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I wish I had her problem finding workers to take doc03 Aug 2025 #1
What are you? Some kind of Democrat? marble falls Aug 2025 #29
Nothing to see here AltairIV Aug 2025 #2
Yes, Carrie - it's called "farming" (as opposed to "larping") and it's a shitload of work . . . hatrack Aug 2025 #3
Best comment: Jesus, take the tractor! tanyev Aug 2025 #4
I think the lower photo in your post is a poor choice Raven123 Aug 2025 #14
I took the post as biting social commentary, yardwork Aug 2025 #23
As did I Raven123 Aug 2025 #56
Not really leftstreet Aug 2025 #57
I disagree. Raven123 Aug 2025 #59
Yeah, well. Boo-fucking-hoo, Carrie Underwood. (nt) Paladin Aug 2025 #5
Money Tetrachloride Aug 2025 #6
Should be titled "Carrie Underwood can't find cheap labor..." GoCubsGo Aug 2025 #7
my heart bleeds for her Javaman Aug 2025 #8
How much is she willing to pay them? SocialDemocrat61 Aug 2025 #9
She promised to dress skimpy and sing a song, isn't that enough? twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #11
Cheaply Hired Help modrepub Aug 2025 #15
Maybe next time she will think before she cheats; farm laborers. twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #10
That's a good one chicoescuela Aug 2025 #31
She has & does❗ Duppers Aug 2025 #40
She sang for trump twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #46
Say no more... Duppers Aug 2025 #65
You are welcome!!!!!!!!!! twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #66
Yeah, that's how most farmer's days go Farmer-Rick Aug 2025 #12
That's a large farm. LeftInTX Aug 2025 #16
I'll work on her farm for a week free if she really baked that loaf. She may have layed those egges, she did not bake .. marble falls Aug 2025 #32
Girlfriend has had some major face work done. Botany Aug 2025 #41
Sustainment farms require large or extended families... haele Aug 2025 #51
Probably the ICE raids. Many of the trumpy mwmisses4289 Aug 2025 #18
This isn't a "for profit" farm. She probably hires white people. Her problem: She's growing too much!! LeftInTX Aug 2025 #19
It's a Martha Steward farm. It's a whimsey. marble falls Aug 2025 #33
Yes, Martha Stewart! LeftInTX Aug 2025 #38
No, it's a Marie Antionette farm DBoon Aug 2025 #60
Difference being, Marie Antonette was trying to make an example, and the singer was trying to buy an ... marble falls Aug 2025 #69
BINGO! snowybirdie Aug 2025 #20
I live in East TN Farmer-Rick Aug 2025 #49
Put those kids to work! cloudbase Aug 2025 #13
While she is having a hard time finding and keeping farmhands, the Tiny Violin Orchestra has never had more... Ol Janx Spirit Aug 2025 #17
Well, I'm just heartbroken for ol' Carrie AverageOldGuy Aug 2025 #21
What! Doesn't she make a fortune from the Sunday Night Football Anthem? ProudMNDemocrat Aug 2025 #22
Bless her heart. rubbersole Aug 2025 #24
Be careful with what you ask for. Anti-Immigration was a hot topic for those who depended on immigrant labor ... marble falls Aug 2025 #25
I didn't read the article, Rincewind Aug 2025 #26
That was my first thought. niyad Aug 2025 #50
Cry me a fucking river Scalded Nun Aug 2025 #27
If she's taking AG support money and tax deductions to protect her singin' income - hell with her. marble falls Aug 2025 #34
If she really wants a farm then she needs to decide on one or 2 crops that she wants the farm to produce Botany Aug 2025 #28
I think she read too many "Little House on the Prairie" books and too many magazines and too much Martha Stewart. LeftInTX Aug 2025 #35
She can grow all the food she can ever use on 1 acre which can be fenced off for deer. Botany Aug 2025 #42
Sounds like she held an idealized vision of what farming was like. cab67 Aug 2025 #30
We usta call 'em "Old MacDonald" farms, chick-chick here, moo moo there ... marble falls Aug 2025 #36
She allegedly grew up on a farm. GoCubsGo Aug 2025 #67
Work harder, MAGAt Blue Owl Aug 2025 #37
Can't stand her or her singing. On a plus note I read she donated a million to Texas Ziggysmom Aug 2025 #39
I don't know her or Duppers Aug 2025 #43
I love Willie, too! I also always loved Kris Kristofferson. Ziggysmom Aug 2025 #45
Kris doesn't count Duppers Aug 2025 #64
If you watched an NFL Sunday Night Football game in the past decade, you've seen her. LudwigPastorius Aug 2025 #62
She needs to pull herself up gab13by13 Aug 2025 #44
Stileto work boots. twodogsbarking Aug 2025 #48
What an odd story! PJMcK Aug 2025 #47
I think onethatcares Aug 2025 #52
Call the Waambulance for Her, but keep in mind MineralMan Aug 2025 #53
Hire all those republicans who now get their jobs back. Norrrm Aug 2025 #54
You have to hire people for keeps on a farm of this size and type... hunter Aug 2025 #55
Oh, but think of the millions she will make writing songs about her hard luck experience farming. jalan48 Aug 2025 #58
What a dumbass. LudwigPastorius Aug 2025 #61
Short version: Pity me because it's hard to find exploitable labor. Heidi Aug 2025 #63
Is this a farm? Or a whinery? nt JustABozoOnThisBus Aug 2025 #68
My suggestion: Follow your hero. tavernier Aug 2025 #70
Okay, Farmyard Barbie. Aristus Aug 2025 #71
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