Muffin1611
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Send me to a faraway farm if old.
Send me to a faraway farm if old.
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PCGamer: Meet the man who loved Stardew Valley so much he bought a farm
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PandaPedinte
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I read it yesterday. I wish good luck to him, taking care of farm is not easy even if it's just a small one.
capitalCORN
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As someone who has farm experience. Get ready to break your back.
Maintenance
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Wow, that's amazing.
Outtrigger888
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2.5 acres isn't a farm
Keyser Soze
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I am glad he never played Katamari Damacy
Etrian Oddity
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I think I could be a rancher, but I could never be a farmer. My fucking houseplants always die no matter how I try to care for them.
SinCityAssassin
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All he needs now is a selection of 8 love interests to choose from.
Teriyaki Blues
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As someone who spent some time growing up on a farm, there's a reason I love that type of game but don't live on a farm. Best of luck to the guy and I hope he can make it work.
Why not? My grandparents had over 125 acres and, aside from the grazing fields, the majority of their crops and barns took up only small fields and a barn near their home. It is possible to have a small farm take up only a tiny area. Just depends on what you plan to put in your farm and how you plan to feed your animals.
And a walkthrough that tells him which objects will make them marry him.
Possumowner
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I love Mario,think I might buy a castle and find me a princess...good luck on his farm though
AwakenedCloud
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That would be the least surprising thing he's done with his life knowing him.
The Real Abed
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I love DOOM so much, I joined the marines to go fight demons.
Milly Osworth
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Or Monkey Ball.
Bruno
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That is plenty of space for a farm, says who?
When I was playing the SNES Harvest Moon via emulator about 15 years ago, I dreamed of this too, but then I realised it'd not be the same, it wouldn't be financially viable, I wouldn't get my pick of the local babes and there'd be much more feces.
Still, would love to own a farm if it was as fun as Harvest Moon!
Still, would love to own a farm if it was as fun as Harvest Moon!
Maintenance
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Don't know if it is different in the US, but here pieces of land are named based on size. Saying "farm" would mean something above a certain number in most cases.
One of my countryside friends would be able to explain this much better.
Sometimes literally. Someone I know fell off the top of a silo as a kid and now permanently has massive back problems.
Stuggernaut
Grandma's Chippy
lol where you pulling this out of? That is plenty of farming area. All depends what you are doing.
callmedave
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killatopak
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He beat me to it.
RecRoulette
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Damn, maybe start with a garden or something.
Good luck to him though, that's going to be a task.
Damn, I thought this mentality died off years ago.
Good luck to him though, that's going to be a task.
Damn, I thought this mentality died off years ago.
Psychoward
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There's a lot of people who didn't read the article it seems.
It's been his dream since he was a child, he was already disenchanted with city life before playing the game and he had played Harvest Moon games before, Stardew Valley was just another nudge.
He acknowledges it's a lot of work but also says it's well worth it and he wouldn't go back.
It's been his dream since he was a child, he was already disenchanted with city life before playing the game and he had played Harvest Moon games before, Stardew Valley was just another nudge.
He acknowledges it's a lot of work but also says it's well worth it and he wouldn't go back.
Psychoward
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Cost of living downtown in a major city vs. a countryside is pretty drastic.
Grew up on 3 acres, worked my grandparents 6 acre pumpkin farm. Its near impossible to make a living on even 6 acres, although these days with the organic craze you might be able to charge insane prices for very little depending on what market you live in. Or grow weed.
Farming equipment is really really expensive too, and maintenance alone can wipe out any gains on mediocre years. Although I do admit there are some times I look back at my time working the earth and there is a certain nostalgia to it, until I remember fighting off coyotes from the livestock, stepping on wasp nests, getting sunburned and working dawn to dusk, sulfurous water, and the terrible, pervasive smells of various manures soaking into your clothes.
Good luck to him.
Farming equipment is really really expensive too, and maintenance alone can wipe out any gains on mediocre years. Although I do admit there are some times I look back at my time working the earth and there is a certain nostalgia to it, until I remember fighting off coyotes from the livestock, stepping on wasp nests, getting sunburned and working dawn to dusk, sulfurous water, and the terrible, pervasive smells of various manures soaking into your clothes.
Good luck to him.
SinCityAssassin
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If the farm is next to a library, I urge him to flag that route.
veloxStrix
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Aside from the fact that 2.5 acres is barely anything, how much of that is usable land? There are ways you could make it work. You could do hoophouses or aquaponics (or both) to maximize your profit/acre or something similar, but traditional farming just isn't going to be profitable at that size. Not to mention farms have a pretty large startup costs as far as equipment goes.
Yeah let's get him!!
Linkstrikesback
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If he's intending to do it by hand, alone, it sure as heck is.
DJ_Lae
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Best of luck to him.
After working for a decade in agriculture (albeit on the government side) my biggest takeaway is that I have a ton of respect for farmers because holy shit is it something I would never want to do.
Tons of work, generally shitty pay. You'd have to love what you're doing, and other than having a small hobby farm like this guy seems to where you can just sort of noodle around, I can't imagine many truly love what they're doing.
After working for a decade in agriculture (albeit on the government side) my biggest takeaway is that I have a ton of respect for farmers because holy shit is it something I would never want to do.
Tons of work, generally shitty pay. You'd have to love what you're doing, and other than having a small hobby farm like this guy seems to where you can just sort of noodle around, I can't imagine many truly love what they're doing.
Thelonelykoopa
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Its fine for a farm. You can put some gardens for vegetables and he is only raising if I read it correctly chickens and turkeys. He doesn't need a massive amount of land as it's not a cattle or sheep farm.
Honestly if you're doing it as a means to provide for yourself or a small family it's really not that difficult. Chickens are pretty low-maintenance if all you want are eggs.
The biggest pitas are pests and predators but that greatly depends on your location. In Malaysia we don't really have any foxes or mountain lions jacking up livestock but god damned monkeys always manage to steal my figs.
I lol'd
Maintenance
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I live in a city and I get that feeling every single day.
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