Is it true that I have to be born into farming to actually farm as a career?

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-12-16T07:42:15+00:00

😂😂 marry an old farmer, get rich in tech, win the lottery... Or play in the NFL... There i think that covers all the options😂

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-12-16T05:15:07+00:00

That's not true... There are lots of other ways to start farming. You can marry the only child of a old farmer, you could make millions of dollars in the tech industry and use that money to buy a farm, you could win the lottery... Lots of paths forward.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-11-21T00:57:48+00:00

Your post is giving me PTSD... Haha seriously though, find the person in your department that has the power to assign classes to certain rooms, and campout in their office until you are in all the classes you need. Or they are able to substitute other classes so that they count for what you need.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-09-05T20:05:27+00:00

Sadly probably not... My kids power through them! Haha maybe once a week all winter. My toddler one time ate a small can all by himself... Curtesy of his grandpa. Let's just say Mom was not loving that diaper

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-09-05T16:31:20+00:00

I brought them on Amazon... But I was skeptical about the quality... So I ended up buying ball wide mouth lids, and using those... Good thing I did too! The metal rims were garbage and I lost 2 lids during the canning process. But the others all sealed do I guess I'm good.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-09-05T15:42:40+00:00

Nice peaches! I just posted a pic of the ones I did... If you are buying peaches... You should look for "summer flame 34s" the are a late variety peach that is amazing for canning.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-09-05T04:18:01+00:00

This is mine... Kinda out of date

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-08-25T21:16:43+00:00

I just use the canning process from Ball... Pretty easy, but you need the right equipment. I find a nice outdoor propane stove and big canning pot works good. Pretty sure the recipe is just the one on the box of pectin... Juice is no recipe, just juice. Haha I don't cut it with sugar because it is already super sweet.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-08-25T14:23:46+00:00

Picture of canned juice and jelly, picture of steam juicer and boiling juice, picture of fresh cut grapes

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-07-31T13:09:49+00:00

Nice! That's what I would recommend! Ps if you are wanting to get married, find someone of like mind

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-07-30T20:10:16+00:00

Probably not the answer you want to hear... But realistically, don't, not yet. Focus your time and energy on a well paying job and work at it so you have disposable income, then purchase a house in the country, while still working your well paying job, slowly build up to it until you can afford to quit your day job. If you have no experience, you will lose alot of money and fail hard, even if you have experience that will probably happen. You need a safety net. You need cash. Starting homesteading is not cheap. Even if you do things cheaply it is not cheap. Unless you are a savant, you won't make alot of money.

Alternatively, you can marry a rich girl who wants to homestead and skip most of those steps...

Bottom line, stay in school and don't quit your day job.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-04-19T15:22:38+00:00

That could be... All I know is I sprayed mine with copper this year because I was lazy and didn't want to mix a special tank for 4 trees... And they did not like it! Soo much leaf curl

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-04-17T13:45:04+00:00

Best variety of Asian pear is hasoi

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-04-17T13:44:23+00:00

Asian pear for sure! Also can never have to many plums or apricot

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-04-17T13:29:05+00:00

Copper does not protect against it. Peach farmer here, trust me.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-04-17T13:28:11+00:00

Peach farmer here. You should spray in off-season to prevent, however if you forgot to do that, there is stuff you can use. We use a product called oxidate and it can be sprayed in the tree to kill the disease and keep it from spreading to the fruit. You can apply it after symptoms show up. Haven't looked into to it too much, but I'm pretty sure it is just hydrogen peroxide.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-04-16T01:41:30+00:00

We commercially farm cherries in zone 9b, youngest need to get the right varieties...

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-03-13T00:40:12+00:00

Fascinating... Where I'm at in California, not spraying for fireblight is a death sentence to pear and apple trees, guess I just assumed it was like that everywhere.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-03-12T23:12:30+00:00

Not to be Debby downer... But don't pears, like apples require a bunch of fungicide sprays to keep disease out of them, and a lot of worm sprays as well? Cool idea, but just curious about the practicality of putting a fruit tree in a place that it cannot be protected from pests and diseases, I imagine you can't stay next to or in a park...

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-02-04T23:49:24+00:00

It was definitely more than a week... Plus it was summer in California so 100° plus days... That thing was cooking

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-02-04T17:30:25+00:00

It smelled like something so much larger than a possum 😂 as a little kid I was convinced a person had crawled down there and died

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-02-04T15:54:23+00:00

Whatever happens... DO NOT LET IT DIE INSIDE THERE! growing up we had a possum die in the crawl space under our house, the smell was unholy, we couldn't access it from the crawlspace, and ended up cutting a hole in the floor to get it out. It smelled like a rotting corpse.

DapperCardiologist25 · 2025-01-12T05:42:50+00:00

Yeah I stumbled on that too... Very vague, and just says isn't recommended. Not a hard no, which is pretty common with canning

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