become a farmer in seven days

Here is our recipe.  Enrollment requirements:  beg, steal or borrow a couple of acres of waste land:

• Day one
  • Buy or beg a goat, 50 ft. of airline cable, 2 swivels, a cinder block, and a bucket
    • Tether the goat in your worst briars and scrub; give her a bucket of water
    • Milk her, drink the milk
  • Cost: $100 or the sky’s the limit, depending on the goat
• Day two,
  • Build a 4' x 8'compost bin, put a dog carrier at one end, and install six pullets
  • Fill the other end of the bin with at least twelve inches of organic matter: wood chips, grass clippings, leaves, sawdust, even shredded paper
  • Add all your kitchen and table scraps, and let the chickens go at it.
  • Milk the goat, move her tether
  • Cost: $50 for the chickens, $30 for a roll of woven wire, scrounge the posts and dog carrier
• Day three
  • Use a garden fork and shovel to dig a 4 x 8 garden bed
  • Plant four tomato plants, two squash, a row of bean plants, six feet of lettuce, and three of your favorite herbs. Mulch between the rows
  • Milk the goat, move her tether
  • Have a beer and a good stretch
  • Cost: < $10 for seeds and seedlings
• Day four
  •  Put a barrel under your gutter spout. Better yet, an IBC
  • Layer wet cardboard and grass clippings in three places you plan to put a future garden
  • Build more compost piles. Scrounge organic matter wherever you can:
    • Tree trimmers
    • Alley ways and neighbors
    • Rake your own leaves
    • Shredded paper
    • Collect from local sources
  • Milk the goat, move her tether
  • Throw food scraps to the chickens, collect eggs
  • Go sit in the shade and draw maps of your land; sketch in where you imagine future improvements should be: fruit trees, possibly a shed, gardens, etc.
  • Cost: scrounging a barrel or IBC
• Day five
  • Use whatever goat milk you haven't drunk in the past three days to make a feta or mozz
  • Make omelets for dinner
  • Milk the goat, move her tether
  • Throw kitchen scraps to the chickens, collect eggs
  • Cost: nothing
• Day six
  • Cleanup day. Pick up the trash the goat has uncovered.  Pile bricks and cinder blocks.
  • Burn what should be burned
  • Sort trash and take things to the recycling center.
  • Hit some garage sales and buy second-hand tools
  • Milk the goat and move her tether
  • Chickens/ scraps/ eggs
  • Cost: recycling money minus garage sale purchases
• Day seven
  • Rest
  • Have someone over for breakfast. Feed him or her fresh eggs and goats’ milk.
  • Take note of, and give thanks for, all the beauty that is already emerging from the land you have taken pity on, and are in the process of serving.
  • Give thanks for the way it is already serving you back
  • Milk the goat and move her tether
  • Chickens/ scraps/ eggs
  • Profit: look around you and see that you are already a farmer

Doesn't it sound beautiful?  and possible?