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03 January 2014

Friday Question If you became a farmer, what would you farm/raise?

post by: bearwife at: 17:10 | 22 comments

Cheese. I would grow cheese.

posted by msali 03 January | 17:33

Chickens, pigs, and bees. Mmmmm eggs, bacon & honey.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 03 January | 17:37

Tomatoes.

posted by JanetLand 03 January | 18:29

My uncle had an 'egg ranch' (2 large barns full of closely penned hens - factory farming in the 1960s and the worst smelling environment I ever voluntarily entered), so in spite of my own carnivorosity, I'd do something definitely vegetable. I'm in a serious agricultural area, and just across Highway 101 from a field of broccoli. Yep, I could manage broccoli just fine, and not only wear this tshirt design proudly,
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but get the creator to put it back into production to promote MY Macho Broccoli...

posted by oneswellfoop 03 January | 18:56

alpacas and pygmy goats. they're so freakin' cute.

posted by bluesapphires 03 January | 19:10

I love that broccoli t-shirt!

I would raise alpacas (although the wool can be kind of itchy). Silkworms might be interesting if it wasn't kind of gross.

posted by wens 03 January | 19:50

Grapes to make the wine.

posted by arse_hat 03 January | 20:05

Would this hypothetical farm be in Colorado?

posted by octothorpe 03 January | 21:00

Goats. I read this amazing book, Goat Song, and was sold. I'd also grow Christmas trees.

posted by Miko 03 January | 21:20

Patrick Stewarts.

posted by unsurprising 03 January | 21:32

Goats. And if we're assuming that I have actual farming/gardening ability, then also grapes and roses.

posted by occhiblu 03 January | 22:36

Christmas trees. Planting trees is fun.

posted by Ardiril 04 January | 01:39

Oh, here in Colorado; the hypothetical question answer has to be marijuana.
Reality of the 'if' would have to be grapes; wine and stuff to do the outdoorsy thing with.

posted by buzzman 04 January | 04:10

I think I'd be to faint of heart to raise livestock.
So I think I'd tend to an estate of bosbouw; growing trees.
Incredibly boring but in theory I like the atmosphere.

posted by jouke 04 January | 08:53

I would sow compassion and reap peace.

posted by Hugh Janus 04 January | 12:33

I would want to raise Kashmir goats and then milk them and make cashmere goat cheese that I would sell with cashmere scarves and hats and stuff.
Also I would have an acre devoted to all different kinds of chili peppers and I would make hot sauce.
For personal use I would have a pear orchard and blackberry and raspberry bushes.

posted by rmless2 04 January | 16:03

Apple orchards.

posted by gaspode 04 January | 18:26

High quality organic meat -- sheep, pigs, chickens, maybe ostrich.

And weed, for sure, if it was legal.

posted by Pips 04 January | 19:21

Hell.

posted by Eideteker 06 January | 07:39

For me, vegetables, herbs, and fruit . . . . and lots of space for a couple of border collies to roam.

posted by bearwife 07 January | 12:59

Oh wow, I love this farm. These are all next to each other right?

I'd want small ponies. I thought for a while I'd want a horse farm, but I don't want to care for anything taller than me. So goats, turkeys (smart ones) maybe chickens. I've got no use for geese or ducks, and rabbits are a PITA.

posted by lysdexic 07 January | 15:34

I don't know if I want Eideteker's farm next to everyone else's . . . but maybe good (asbestos) fences will make good neighbors.

posted by bearwife 08 January | 12:57

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