FAFO story of the day: Carrie Underwood can't find hired hands to help her with the ranch.

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51. Sustainment farms require large or extended families...

Unlike the YouTube TradLife type influencer farms.
The old English Country Manor farms or Colonial farmsteads typically ran a quarter system of land management; 3/4 of the "farm" was business, and 1/4 (typically 10 - 20 acres) was for the family food sources.
My 3x Grandparents ran a local general store supporting their local farming community of around 10 families, including their parent's farm; they also had a small sustainment plot in their 2 acre backyard for chickens (rich folks had chickens in their yard, poor folks shared pigs), the family mule (which they often rented out), two fruit trees, and a fruit and veggie plot.
Planting and harvest time, they and their 4 surviving kids would pitch in before and after the store was open on the business side of family farm, bringing in seed or fertilizer from the common community stores, and brining to he harvest to the processing mills or boxing plants to ship out to the buyers
Excess that wasn't eaten immediately from the sustainment plots everyone grew would be canned or otherwise preserved and either stored in a spring house or basement or sold to the grocer to sell to neighbors.
That was the way most farms work around the world.
They are businesses or communal efforts necessary to survive, not hobbies.
Even ancient Hunter-gatherers needed to collect into large groups to be able to provide enough food over the lean times to keep most of the individuals alive.
An individual living alone (or even a small family) had few options to keep himself or herself alive for any length of time before they had to depend on a larger group of helpers to get their survival needs together for, say, a few months of winter.

Just the exhaustion gathering enough food for the long term will kill an individual survivalist quick after two or three months without help or a large supply storage system.