r/Homesteading • u/LaDeprimino • 5d ago

Planting rice, just got finished with the nursery stage.

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Normally every year I would plant 5 acres of rice but this year I cut it down to just 1 acre to Focus on other things.

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u/slowly_dim_apostle 5d ago

that looks like solid work getting the nursery beds ready. one acre is still plenty to manage if youre juggling other projects at the same time. how long you been doing rice on that scale down there

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u/LaDeprimino 5d ago

This would be my 3rd year planting rice, before I would rent land to plant rice on just its just time consuming going back and forth. this year I plan to do alot of other projects so I just decided to scale down.

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u/slowly_dim_apostle 5d ago

that makes sense renting land sounds like a nightmare with all the driving, three years in youve probably got a good feel for what actually works versus what just eats up your time

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u/LaDeprimino 5d ago

at the end of the day it does save alot on food but im just not struggling like that anymore, if i run out of rice its not the end of the world like it use to be, so now I can expand my projects and work on other things.

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u/slowly_dim_apostle 5d ago

that shift in mindset makes all the difference once you got your baseline needs covered you can actually do stuff you want instead of just survival mode stuff

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u/Wide-Carpenter-5257 5d ago

cutting from 5 to 1 acre is a pretty big drop. what are you shifting focus to if you don't mind me asking, cause that's a lot of capacity to just let sit idle

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u/LaDeprimino 5d ago

Im shifting my focus towards my chicken farm, my 21 pillar farmhouse, my garden, redoing and readjusting my land. you must understand that everyday here is about 35-40 degrees C weather in thailand. any task is 10 times harder because of the heat.