My parents moved to an 80 acre farm when I was three years old and I lived there until I was 19 and at that time was the oldest of five children. Family moved to town several years after I left home.
Can't do much with 80 acres, though we did graze some milk cows and baled some hay. I remember having pigs at one time and there were always chickens. We usually had a huge garden and canned lots of the produce.
Went to a one-room school house through the fifth grade, but couldn't start school until the neighbor boy was old enough to go (luckily he was only a year younger) because my father worked in town and my mother didn't drive (at that time).
The neighbor boy and I went to three different schools (consolidations) together and although we live 200 miles apart, are still friends sixty years later.