How Much Land You Need For A Homestead
Excitement for purchasing our homestead almost left us on the wrong piece of land. With some money in the bank, we were READY to have land and start our own homestead. We fell in love with a cozy little yurt property on 5 acres with a seasonal stream.
Long story short, the owner jerked us around and ultimately we did not end up there. Otherwise, we would have happily of bought his land, and very soon after, would have figured out that we did not have enough land for our homestead desires.
We should have spent more time asking ourselves questions about what exactly we wanted to do on our land and how much space we would need for it.
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great post.
You're right, it's hard to put a figure on how much land you need. Before we bought our place I wanted 40 acres at least, as that's what I thought we would need. We ended up buying 25 acres of not great land, but OK, with an awesome water supply. We've been running close to 100 chickens and half a dozen sheep for a year, have an orchard with about 50 trees, an area set aside for a vege garden, and have seriously barely used maybe 6 of those acres, including the acre or so that holds the water. I reckon we could leave the back 15 acres and never go near it.
nice photo of poto grafi