Organic gardening with raised beds etc is the new wave and you can grow significantly more produce on a small plot of acreage. This is not old style farming. We are not talking about wheat, corn, soy beans. We are talking about herbs, salad greens, tomatoes and fancy vegetables. Berries, eggs, stuff like that. You can produce tremendous amounts on several acres.
We plan to do raised beds which produce a lot of plant in a small area with no weeds and easy to work. A large blueberry plot, a type of heritage apple nobody else is selling and exotic chickens which is highly lucrative and takes up very little space. I’m doing test gardening in raised beds in our yard here in the burbs right now and producing some righteous veggies. Our 5 hens put out beautiful tasty blue eggs that our family members squable over to get the the excess we can’t eat. I’m looking forward to a lucrative little business in the near future.
Depending on the cost of the land, 3 acres is not enough. If you own the land out right you can live like bronze age serfs.
When do you pick the eggs...just before the frost?