Survey: Have You Ever Spent Time on a Farm?

The Russian pretense of holiday home where people "holiday" is a concept of giving people land that they can cultivate themselves under the guise of rest thus supplementing their food budget. Even more well off Russians have partaken in the phenomenon.

Also worked on tree farms. Fun is fun.

I've visited farms to pick pumpkins and other produce. I don't go regularly (our local farmers market is only a few blocks away and the closest farm is 45 minutes) but every time we do it makes me wish there was a little less sprawl and a little more working land. Farms are gorgeous. And good for the soul.

I grew up on a small farm!

I live on a farm currently. Its a small 1 acre farm. We have one cow one pig 5 chickens 8 ducks and more to come. We grow our own food..mostly. We are working on becoming self sustaining. We have fruit trees and several large Black Walnut trees. We do our own composting and natural pestcontrol.

My husband grew up on a small farm, and I lived close by and often helped with farm work. Our own home is in a rural area, where we've lived for 32 years. We have a huge raised bed organic garden, and much of our work is done with two old Farmall tractors--an A and a Super H. It's like living on a very, very small farm, and we love it. This is where our heart and soul is.

Looking at the numbers up above I think this site might want to change it's name to FarmHugger :D

i've never actually worked on a farm, but we did stay with my grandparents on their farm for several months in late summer to late fall of '84. my dad was stationed in Germany and we couldn't follow until he'd secured housing. I remember picking corn for supper. my mom and aunt would clean it and drop it in a pot of water which my grandmother would immediately put on the stove. my sister and our cousin, both were barely 2, and my brother and i, at 6 and 8, would help pick berries and apples which my grandma made into pies or jams. my sister was terrible at picking berries, lol, for every one that made it into her basket, she'd eat 2, plus most of the ones that made it into our cousins little basket.

it was the only place in my life that i don't remember my brother or i ever saying "im bored!" there was ALWAYS something wonderful to do, whether it was stomping through the ice that formed on the ponds in the mornings (late fall, lol) or playing hide and seek in the corn (still one of my best memories!) or foolishly climbing the hay bales in the barn, or watching the piglets, or helping my uncle gather eggs, or exploring the woods and Roanoke river with my grandparent's 5 BIG dogs... i wish they still had that farm, i'd love my kids to play like that... but the farm has been turned into several subdivisions and the only thing left (per my brother who went to see it several years ago and made the rest of us promise to NEVER go) is the 200 year old farm house that, amoung many things, served as a hospital during the civil war. All 500 acres of that wonderful farm is cookie-cutter houses now. . . it's good my grandfather died of cancer, caused by chemicals during WWII, rather than have to have seen that.

Never been on a farm but have 5 acres. I could probably have a little farm if i wanted. Right now having problems with moles in my flower garden.

The "Other" option in the poll above got my vote, since I'm actually restoring a run-down medium size farm high up in the Cambrian mountains of Wales.
My hope is that it will one day become a small community serving a sort of small rural college for people to spend a year or two learning some of the practical skills of sustainable forestry & farming.

One thing I'm about to do is to register with WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms) as a host for visiting volunteers.

So, if anyone is interested in helping out on farms in return for their keep, they would do well to have a look at the website ( http://www.wwoof.org ).
As well as helping organic farms to survive the coming recession, this volunteering is also a great way to get to know people in other countries and to experience new cultures.

When we were kids in the 70s we saw the farm on my mother's side of the family in Kansas. Since we were guests we didn't do any work but it was interesting to see how it worked.

i have visit farms but never worked there other then picking my own berries or pumpkin.

I live in a normal suburban neighborhood in Poway, CA (a bedroom community of San Diego) who's motto is "The city in the country" When I was in high school (70's) this was the place where people who wanted to own horses lived - now it's just a a 'burb. But, due to that background,zoning is such that I can have some chickens in my backyard. And it's interesting to see how many folks really enjoy looking at them - especially all the kids in the 'hood. And we never have too many eggs. :-)