a bimonthly magazine, devoted to the life of hobby farmers, homesteaders and small producers. Its editorial offices are based in Lexington, Kentucky
Hobby Farms features articles on raising livestock humanely, sustainable agriculture, marketing a smallfarm, self sufficiency, history and preservation, and the dangers of factory farms
Someone who enjoys all the perks of living on a farm whilst contributing absolutely jack shit to the national agricultural industry. Often observed sponging off the government by claiming every kind of grant or subsidy going like it's some kind of fucking give-away. A hobby farmer will own all the machinery and equipment necessary to run a successful working farm but with the slight oversight of not having any fucking livestock or crops. Not even chickens. Fingers like parsnips and trousers held up with baling twine, hobby farmers are often gayer than a handbag full of rainbows.
Michael: Will the hobby farmer be joining us?
John: No he's busy finishing off his dry stone wall so that real farmers can't sneak a look at all the food he isn't producing.
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”