Discussion: What is a Farm?

"Movotti;c-17143424" wrote:
Typically, a farm is a family run business.

I grew up in a farming community, where most were mixed farms. That is, that grain crops were grown, and livestock grazed on the same farm. Once the crops are harvested, the livestock get to graze on the stubble. Cattle for meat, sheep mostly for wool, but some farms also have specific breeds for meat.
Nothing gets irrigated.

But there are other regions, with other types of farms. Inland there are the cattle stations, where cattle is grazed on whatever grows out in the almost desert.

The river-land region where most of our fruit and nuts come from, along with a lot of the wineries. Then there's the market gardens, where most of the veggies come from.

There's also greenhouses in the desert. This wacky concept they're planning on building one in my city too. It's a pretty good way to get fresh produce to places that are no good for conventional market gardens.

Typically, a farm is where the primary production of produce occurs.

As to the topic of horses, they are pretty common on the larger livestock farms. On many smaller farms, they've been replaced by quad bikes.

Canning is not farming. Canning is factory work, produce is processed, taking it beyond primary production.

idk i mostly put canning as its a way of preserving food i wouldnt say what i want is exactly canning (idk what is the english term anyways) but just some way to preserve food so you could farm at summer and still have food for winter

maybe more like bags of potato and self made jars of food kind of situation? would be what i really want