#hobby farming

People always says “farming isn’t for everyone” but I disagree—I think it IS for everyone. Gardening, growing things, being able to hold up a jar and state “look at this, I made this!” is the most wholesome, gratifying enterprise in the entire world. There’s NOTHING, absolutely nothing, so wonderful and humbling and astonishing as having fed yourself, by your own hands’ turns in the earth or in the natural environment of a barnyard.

My (recently wealthy) older sister and her husband bought some land and got ducks and they have this big plan to grow crops and sell produce and she keeps talking about "homesteading" 🤢 and since she lives in an overwhelmingly white community it's unlikely any of her farm friends are gonna call it out, so I keep meaning to like. Look up some books to gift her for xmas that offer better terminology and an At Minimum Less Colonial perspective and introduction to the concept of a voluntary land tax/land acknowledgement before she gets into this stuff too deep and starts making money off it (bc I know she won't take it on my authority) and I keep forgetting to google resources. So this is both an accountability post for me to not forget to do this but also a request for recommendations if any of y'all have some tyyyyy