tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post3294952440883411668..comments2023-12-15T02:04:08.213-08:00Comments on meat: Tim Youngs written a new farming/homesteading book. Help review itBruce Kinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10995706761794063165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-84891337943373109552014-11-06T21:17:50.130-08:002014-11-06T21:17:50.130-08:00It didn't take me too many years of "home...It didn't take me too many years of "homesteading" to realize that the only way to make money homesteading is to sell books about it. There's almost nothing you can grow or raise on a small low-tech scale that will pay for the enormous expense of buying and maintaining land and structures. Even the property taxes would be a stretch.<br /> <br />Either you sell the "ideal" to somebody in book form or you provide an actual on-farm experience to city tourists. Even farmers markets feel like a variation on the same concept.Lee Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13736680452703464160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1842136564899097734.post-60224419715568387302014-10-30T10:02:29.089-07:002014-10-30T10:02:29.089-07:00While I appreciate the time and effort it takes to...While I appreciate the time and effort it takes to write a book.. maybe that labor should be spent on making his farm.. ya know.. profitable. I can't stand hypocrites who write books and can't practice what they preach... and there's a LOT of that in the AG world. Any farmer worth their salt would never have let all those animals die their first few years farming. I just can't get over that fact, which is why I will not support anything these farmers do. Period.Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16948064168681062105noreply@blogger.com