Nah I never was thinking that. I think I understand where you stand pretty well.

It's very believable that you can put out enough veggies to cover that part of what yall eat in your garage with that setup assuming you have the freezer space to store it for a semi-extended period of time.

Take a picture of your setup and post it if you get a chance. I'd like to see what this rig looks like. If you're putting stuff together and getting good yields, those bigger urban organizations would probably like to know what you're doing as well. You seem pretty passionate about what you're doing, so if you're coming up with new stuff I'm sure they would love to hear about it to help out their organizations. The bigger ones often hold little field trip type deals and they would probably like to use your setup as proof of plausibility.

My guess is that, on the scale you're talking about, you will get better yields than any large scale farmer. You can provide attention to each individual plant and take care of it how necessary. Once the operation moves outside, it becomes a whole different monster. Soil pH, bugs, the weather, and weeds all become a factor. Idk how familiar you are with growing outdoors. If you are familar with it just skip to the next paragraph. If you're not familiar with it I suggest doing a good bit of homework pertaining to whatever you wanna plant. There's a shitload of info available on the interwebs for any kind of plant you can dream up and how to attain the proper growing conditions for that particular plant.

You and half of america don't have room for livestock. It's just a fact (gotta have farmers). There isn't enough room. However, if people start growing their own shite, they won't eat as much meat. I'm sure your family's meat eating went down when you started having your own stuff to eat. Every little bit counts.

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Where's your farm at Downshift

Don't have one

I don't even have a garden at my house.

I have worked on a farm since early highschool though. It's in prairieville. We used to have a 4 or 5 acre garden with all kinds of shite in it. Alot of the land is cow pasture. Used to be about 100 head but right now it's cut back to about 40 cows and 2 bulls. The rest of it is used for bailing hay in the summer and grazing the cows in the winter. It isn't any kind of huge operation. It's just a lil income on the side for the bossman. He has a real job to pay the bills

I'm 21 and in college. No way in hell I could afford the property taxes on 200 acres.