i wish i understood how big an acre was
@gingerrroot A football field is 1.3 acres, I just learned.
@gingerrroot you can actually produce a lot of food on that land if you use the right techniques
@gingerrroot let me know if you want an infodump on regenerative agriculture
ok time to make friends with or woo an old farmer and get him to leave me the farm in their will
change that first "him" to "them" because gender really doesn't matter on the farmer tbh.
@gingerrroot My dad once told me that the house I grew up in was on about a quarter acre of land, and this was a typical front yard/backyard in the 1960s. I just found this... "For homes built since the start of 2015... the lot they are built on has shrunk to 8,940 square feet, or 0.2 acres." So that might help you visualize an acre. About 5x the average home lot.
@BobTarte yeah, the football field and this helps tbh. i think my mom has about an acre? and my dad maybe a little more (but not by much).
thank you
@gingerrroot We're mainly growing poison ivy on our acreage. I'm sure there is a market for poison ivy somewhere. I'm just not quite sure about how to harvest it...
@BobTarte i know the feeling, we've got a large crop of something poison (oak possibly) in the back half of our yard
@gingerrroot Ugh. Not good. Fortunately I'm not highly allergic to poison ivy, but I don't go rolling in it, either.
@gingerrroot An acre is not as big as you might think. That's as exact as I can get at the moment. We have 3.5 acres, and you wouldn't want to mow it with a lawn mower, if it were a lawn, but it isn't a vast space.
@gingerrroot a football field is about 1.32 acres in size
@Laurelai @gingerrroot Great minds think alike, Laurelai!
@gingerrroot about 4000m² give or take.
"55 acres"
"small tract of land"
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