If there was a farm right next door to where you live/work....?

Question

and you could purchase most to all of your food needs from that farm, what TYPE of farm would it be?

Organic

Synthetic fertilizers

Manure fertilizers

Conventional

Permaculture

Wouldn't care...wouldn't shop at a dirty ol'farm.

Vegan with synthetic fertilizers

Vegan with imported animal manures

Permaculture with animals fertilizing crops

Rice paddy with auquaculture (fish, ducks and snails)

Beef...just beef cattle...nothing but beef

The farm better be something out of CandyLand and be growing Skilltes on bushes

Other....?

Answer 1

Permaculture with animals fertilizing crops.

Answer 2

I guess it wouldn't matter to me as long as it was fresh.  

I have a farm where I grow alfalfa for dairies , orchard grass for the horse market, and cattle for food.

I'm trying 35 acres of organic alfalfa this year.  The price is FANTASTIC.  The rest I use pesticides and herbicides.  Testing the plants shows negligible residue.

The orchard grass NEEDS to be fertilized each crop to produce any significant volume.  I use urea typically and it is chemically identical with natural fertilizers, without all the detritus.

My cattle are the best tasting beef EVER.  We vaccinate heifers for bangs virus and all calves get 8-way and lepto shots when branded.

Answer 3

Permaculture, with animals, birds, bees, insects fertilizing the crops but it would not be domestic or 'owned' animals, it would be wildlife as it is now on our Permaculture smallholding.

Nature does not need a helping hand in my view and experience, she is more than capable of fertilizing the land on her own if we don't interfere in her systems. Nature will correct past HUMAN chemical errors too given half a chance.

Answer 4

I was born and raised on a farm. Now my husband and I have a farm. We have goats (  shhhhh...don't tell them , they think they are puppies)

We raise most of our fruit and veg's. We also keep chickens, but thanks to an over abundance of coyotes this year we don't have any now. I wouldn't live anywhere else. I have lived in a large town and hated it. Somehow I just can't bring myself to buy what at home is free like, veg's , berries, eggs  etc...

Our town have a whopping 400 people. Getting a little crowded. We don't have a post office, but by golly we have a Wal-mart.

Answer 5

hydroponic  

I am interested in the process and would like to not only buy my food wares from it but also enjoy learning about the hydroponics field.   It may be one solution for food production in the harsher areas of the world.

Answer 6

Despite it being more expensive, organic food is your best bet.

Answer 7

Organic

Answer 8

I would have to say Rice paddy with auquaculture (fish, ducks and snails). I love rice, and I could get my protein from munching on broasted duck meat and deep fried fish filets. I would need to buy soy sauce though, unless the farm raised soy beans too, and fermented and processed the beans into sauce.

Answer 9

"ORGANTIC" WHERE THEY TAKE THE TIME TO HAND PICK OFF THE BAD BUGS,WHEN WE USE PESTICIDES WE NOT ONLY KILL THE BAD BUGS WE KILL THE GOOD BUGS ALSO, THESE GOOD BUGS WE KILL  SURVIVE ON THE BAD BUGS, AND WE KNOW WHAT PESTICIDES DO TO OUR BODY'S OH AND MAY I MENTION HERBICIDES THEY USE IN  KEEPING WEEDS  DOWN IN BETWEEN ROWS OF VEGTABLE  GARDENS ETC.

Answer 10

ummm... there IS a farm next to where I work.  

Sorry, farms don't work that way.  You don't just go to their house and try to buy their stuff.  Harvest time is once a year, and they're probably growing feed corn or something not fit for human consumption anyways...

Answer 11

A permaculture farm, especially one with a native regeneration section so that birds would come back to our area.

I also wanted to point out that if the vegan farm imported animal manures it wouldn't be vegan because veganic farming involves no animal products and uses green manures and compost to provide nitrogen.

Answer 12

If I lived or worked next door to a farm I would prefer an organic farm with every mouth water vegetable and fruit known and it would be manure fertilizer.I would also like for farm animals to be present on the grassy part of the farm.

Answer 13

conventional,

permaculture,

or organic

Answer 14

I would have to say organic. Why else would you purchase things off the farm if they weren't organic. You could just go to the super market and packed full of c**p! Hope that helps!

Answer 15

Farms produce various types of products. If you lived next to a pig farm, that is what you could buy. Others may produce vegetables or eggs and chicken. The matter is not which farm, but what you want to live on. The type of fertilizers doesn't matter as much as what will the chemicals do to the environment. All farms are "dirty" because they are part of the natural landscape, but they don't have to be unsanitary.And while we like to think of animals as being similar to people, that is not true.So it is not necessary to be overly Humane. We raise them, we kill and eat them. Have you ever heard a turnip scream? No, and if they did they would still be a vegetable.

Answer 16

organic ,except when it rains it feeds the plants with acid rain when it rains as the rain collects all the pollutants from the factories and air beofre it gets to the farm.

Answer 17

I have a great coop of farms in my area, they are certified organic, and they are my primary source of produce and meat.

Answer 18

manure been used forever and veggie grow

very robust, the thing to worry about the condition

there in when picking them,

Answer 19

Well, I apparently need to educate myself about the different farming methods.  I was thinking organic, but I know that does not necessarily mean sustainable.  I'm going to look into Permaculture.  That sounds like the best option to me--with my limited knowledge.

Answer 20

I'd say Organic and veg@n with synthetic fertilizers I guess.

Answer 21

i would send a batallion to slaughter and grind the farmers, then use Them for the fertilizer.

i suppose this would mean...organic would be my answer.

though i like my farms run by on site professors and derelicts answerable directly and only to the central bureau of agriculture.

as for crop, potatoes. only potatoes. to make vodka to keep masses intoxicated and malleable.

Answer 22

#1 - Organic

Flat out for us the family that is

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We have 2 of em where we live

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An experience to see what it looks like before all the dyes get sprayed on the green vegies

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Answer 23

How about no-till farming with genetically modified crops?

Something with good productivity (so that it can actually be counted on to supply a lot of food) and which doesn't till the soil (thereby reducing emissions of greenhouse gasses from farming).  Genetic modification of foods also means less fertiliser and pesticide use.

Conventional farming is pretty good (and what I describe previously is going to become conventional eventually) but I have a dislike for fraud so organic food (which is just inferior quality at a higher price) will have a hard time being bought by me.

Answer 24

I dont think many people know what permaculture is..

I have 10 acres.. I grow SOME of my own food, and have hens for free range eggs..

I am surrounded by farms..

none of my neighbours sell me anything..

I do sell some of my free range eggs.

we are trying to practice permaculture, its tough...especially in colder climate areas.

EVERYONE can grow some of their own food - even if they dont have a yard..

http://www.gomestic.com/Gardening/Six-Aw...

also note: hunted meat is better for you.. and then environment.. and the animals - a hunted deer led a happier life, and had a WAY more humane death, than a feed lot cow..

(I myself do not hunt,)

Answer 25

It does not matter what kind of farm it is. Purchase local gives the farmer a higher profit for his produce than he would by selling to supermarket. The environment gains by the food not travelling any distance. The local community gains by employing local labour. You get the satisfaction of doing something green helping the local area and hopefully getting good food

Answer 26

Conventional.

Answer 27

Any old farm would do. It could be conventional or organic or whatever. It makes no difference to me.

Answer 28

As far as the fertilizer vs. organic goes. People these days are obsessed with "organically" grown food. What people don't realize is that the food that comes from organic farms contains many bugs and pests that conventional farms can get rid of. Also, Organic food is alot more expensive from increased labor.

The important thing with buying food is not that its organic or anything, it's that it's local and didn't need alot of fuel to ship it or cool it during shipping.

Answer 29

wouldn't worry about it you can't find a farm with a diverse enough amount of crops to make it worth while to even worry about.

farms tend to specialize in one or two, maybe three different crops during any one season.

Answer 30

I like fruit farm, Cuz there are quite, birds like to stay over there. no water needed like ricepaddy, flood is my concern. I hope farm don't need too much labor work over there. and I like to smell the fruit flower.

and hopefully, no much pesticide

Answer 31

Organic... ?  i think...