Gardens like that are common here (but no pigs, just poultry, ponds, and rabbits), but only in houses where there is at least one adult working part-time or a homemaker/retiree. So, those are people specializing in subsistence farming, not engineers working 60-hour weeks and doing this on the side.

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Exactly, this romantic view of homesteading doesn't make sense, ever. - 6 chickens or 150 chickens takes about the same time and infrastructure needs.