Particularly since most of the author's focus is (1) winning prizes at contests and (2) selling particularly fine sheep to other farmers—the sheep produce wool, and get sold for meat sometimes (I think?), but the author mentions so little about that aspect of farm life that, like... is making money not the point? is this the kind of hobby where it's just all other hobbyists swapping money with each other?
A friend of mine is a goat farmer with about 20 goats (and a day job working from home for the government) and . . . yes, "the kind of hobby where it's just all other hobbyists swapping money with each other" pretty much tracks.
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Date: 2021-06-22 08:33 pm (UTC)A friend of mine is a goat farmer with about 20 goats (and a day job working from home for the government) and . . . yes, "the kind of hobby where it's just all other hobbyists swapping money with each other" pretty much tracks.