GallopingGhostler, I never lived on any sort of large farm with all that but dad had a few hogs to slop and he would set out about 2 acres of bell peppers that I helped pick like peter piper and another acre of stuff for ourselves. That was just enough to let me know I wanted a desk job. The pepper money helped us pay for a few extra things, including getting dad and I started in RC. Being a kid, I don't remember how much peppers were worth but it was pretty good and a couple of neighbors started their own 1or2 acre patches that we helped with.