Clearly corn and beans.

Beans, of course.

I want 2 cows. I would name them Betty and Boop.

I suppose you could call my place a small farm.

We got 4 runner ducks that lay eggs like crazy and keep the bugs down for the garden.

Last year raised 10 turkeys for meat.

For fruit: Strawberries

Blueberries

Blackberries

Thimble berries

Salmonberries

Elderberries

Apples

Cherries

The garden:

Potatoes

Leeks

Peas

Green beans

Collard greens

Mustard greens

Kale

Brussels sprouts

Broccoli

Zucchini

Tomatoes

Sweet potatoes

Radishes

Beets

Didn’t have success with everything and most of those are still going.

I also harvest the stinging nettle that grows all over the property. There’s also crayfish in the creek on the property.

Grow: fat
Keep: to myself

Goats (milk, cheese, lawn care), alpacas (wool), and maybe a few bee hives for honey to make mead. But I don’t know how to properly care for any of these creatures so it’s best I leave it to those who do.

• pine nuts
• ostriches
• bees

The last few days I’ve been craving cloudberry and fantasising about growing them at home, so…

cannabis

Just fruits and veggies. Don’t want to take care of animals. We did that when I was a kid and it’s a lot more work than plants. The things that want to get to those animals…. Nah man.

Potatoes. Lot of potatoes. Good yield, not a lot of work, long conservation, lot of way to consume, vodka friendly. And you can sell excess easily I think. And also parsley and garlic. Good to add with potatoes.

Probably what I’m gardening now, but more? Tomatoes. Strawberries. Pickling cucumbers. Jalapeños.

I do have a small farm (though it’s still not anywhere near being a primary source of income).

• jalapenos
• anything hotter that will grow up here (I need to get a heated mat for starting seeds)
• sweet peppers
• tomatoes
• cucumbers
• kohlrabi
• various beans
• carrots
• beets
• potatoes
• various varieties of cabbage
• hakusai (Chinese cabbage in English, IIRC)
• bok choi
• eggplant
• broccoli (regular and stick)
• cauliflower
• kabocha
• other squashes
• various herbs
• radishes
• blueberries
• biwa (loquat)
• ume (plum)
• kaki (persimmon variety)
• onions (both Japanese and yellow, white, and red)
• okra

and I’m sure more I’m forgetting. I don’t use chemical pesticides so a lot of the brassicas don’t end up doing well. It’s also why I gave up on corn because it will not do well without pesticides here. I live in northern Japan but coastal so I have more moderate weather. Still, peppers don’t like to do anything naturally until July or August and don’t do well in our rainy season (which we are still in this year, unfortunately)

Dank, beans and chilis.

Goats, pigs, your mom. But I’d need a few hectares for the latter. 😁

Strawberries. They are the best taste to effort and cost of what little grows here in the north.

Potato is an option but they are cheap at the store.

Peppers and chili is an option but they require a greenhouse to stand a chance.

I’d not bother keeping animals unless I intended to make it a bigger part of my income. Can’t just fuck off for a week and do something else. Chickens would be the first contender if I did though