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For me the time is even shorter...I bought the cow. We now have plenty of milk and have had to learn how to make butter, yogurt, cheese, and ice cream with our extra milk.

Several years ago I saw the inflation in food coming and started using my hobby farm to get prepared. Besides the milk we produce for our consumption; eggs, chicken, duck, beef, and lamb. And a byproduct of the lamb is wool that we use to cloth the family.

I am sure that inflation will affect us but hopefully we will have a small buffer for awhile.

Been there, done that. Eggs cost $3.00 per dozen when produced on our farm on a year round cost basis. We milked a nubian goat, two plus quarts a day. She ran us about 2.45 a gallon. Our sheep flock, over 200 ewes was a big loser when compared to placing all that ground into hay and forage. We patured them on 80 acres. They ate a 1,200 pound round bale of alfalfa per day when pasture season was over.There is a 24 year global oversupply of wool sitting in warehouses. My market lambs fetched about $180 each. My input costs ran about $145.

I usually broke some bones, threw out my back several times, cut, raked, and baled hay forever, injected myself with ivermectin, hoof rot vaccine, and 5 way shots twice a year while wrestling stock. Don/t even talk to me about shearing!

Farming can make you seriously old before your time. I do miss it though. My point though is that you can buy chickens @.89 per pound.