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Adrienne's cluttered house now features a budget chicken coop

Slackjawed Cow

I laugh at them because they're all the same.
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midwit

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She's just a thrifty Midwestern gal ain't she?
That's my favorite part of the "homesteader" trend.

Everyone who does it is either industrial scaled, absolutely rapes their neighbors with prices/neighbors put in awkward position of making you their charity case, or you lose money.

High-quality feed alone costs more than a fuck-ton of organic eggs.
 

TorpidSloth

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That's my favorite part of the "homesteader" trend.

Everyone who does it is either industrial scaled, absolutely rapes their neighbors with prices/neighbors put in awkward position of making you their charity case, or you lose money.

High-quality feed alone costs more than a fuck-ton of organic eggs.
Can't even really blame her. Americans are getting absolutely buggered on simple commodities like meat, eggs, and general foodstuffs.

I can go to Waitrose or Harvey Nicks (higher end UK grocers) or the equivalents in Continental Europe, buy food for a family of 5 for 5 days, and spend a good deal less than doing the same in a low rent store like Walmart in the States. And the quality of food over here is way better in terms of quality. Less processed additives etc.

The last part was always the case (blame the FDA) but the price point was usually the opposite in the past. America has cheap (crap) food and really cheap fuel. That was true for 30 years. Now it isn't. And regular Americans like Ade and her family are stunned and bewildered. A lot of that going around it seems.
 

midwit

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Can't even really blame her. Americans are getting absolutely buggered on simple commodities like meat, eggs, and general foodstuffs.

I can go to Waitrose or Harvey Nicks (higher end UK grocers) or the equivalents in Continental Europe, buy food for a family of 5 for 5 days, and spend a good deal less than doing the same in a low rent store like Walmart in the States. And the quality of food over here is way better in terms of quality. Less processed additives etc.

The last part was always the case (blame the FDA) but the price point was usually the opposite in the past. America has cheap (crap) food and really cheap fuel. That was true for 30 years. Now it isn't. And regular Americans like Ade and her family are stunned and bewildered. A lot of that going around it seems.
Yup. It's the worst possible combination of socialism and capitalism.

Subsidized industrial farmers barely even give a fuck if their crop/X fails due to taxpayer subsidized "insurance." All of their feed is subsidized, loaded with horrendous shit that 100% causes cancer, etc. They get incredible farm equipment as write-offs, 100k+ badass personal trucks are also tax write-offs, etc. the entire industry is a scam. It's Republican welfare.

The end result is say you have a well-meaning Gen X'er who sold a product during the "app" craze. Worth 5 million bucks, retired. Has a million dollars to spend on a small farm. Has no intention of making money, just wants to break even and support his community with great food.

He can't get the tax breaks of a large farm, he can't get the feed discounts because he's not buying at industrial scale and won't spray his food with chemicals that cause cancer, etc. etc. etc. He winds up at the farmers market selling $15 pork chops and feeling like an asshole. I've literally seen almost exactly this.
 

wbgreen

May St. Mel bless you
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The end result is say you have a well-meaning Gen X'er who sold a product during the "app" craze. Worth 5 million bucks, retired. Has a million dollars to spend on a small farm. Has no intention of making money, just wants to break even and support his community with great food.

He can't get the tax breaks of a large farm, he can't get the feed discounts because he's not buying at industrial scale and won't spray his food with chemicals that cause cancer, etc. etc. etc. He winds up at the farmers market selling $15 pork chops and feeling like an asshole. I've literally seen almost exactly this.

He'd be better off letting the farm be dormant if he can get on that federal program that pays farmers not to use their land.
 

FranksWirecutters

Glow nigger. Got any of those IPs for me?
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He'd be better off letting the farm be dormant if he can get on that federal program that pays farmers not to use their land.
That's how messed the system is. We're probably going to move and if we put the mortgage in my wife's name she can get a USDA mortgage with less than prime mortgage with me as a co-signer. We can make 20x the poverty level and abuse the system to buy a ranch America fuck yeah
 

Jims_Maroon_Pants

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Lol how many birds does this dumb bitch have? Because that's way too much space. You're still not free ranging them because they're not getting any sun and they'll just all be fighting eachother in there if they're cooped up all the time. This loser cunt thinks she's going to make money selling eggs lol. She's gonna be selling lash eggs to people. Nobody does this. People get enough birds to give them enough eggs for the week and sell the extras on the side. This is her fucking retirement plan. "We're farmers now. This is a farm. We have 25 diseased birds and accidentally sell fertilized eggs with little gross half formed fetuses inside them." Keeping chickens is easy as fuck by the way, I just have zero faith that these dopes can pull off anything.
Just get a rooster, no predator will approach unless it's a bear. Of course their town could have a no rooster law too.
 
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