Am I delusional for wanting to start a farm as a 25 year old woman?

I'm not sure where to post but I wanted to talk to people that I'm not related to. I made a vent post because it felt like my husband doesn't support my dream anymore and everyone commented on my post that I'm delusion and out of my mind for wanting to be a farmer.

I currently live in Idaho and am planning to open a farm either here or Idaho, it's been my dream since I was a little girl living on my Grandmothers farm. I was raised with a pasture of cows, chickens and goats and I helped do all the chores around the farm. My uncle has a farm as well and is a butcher so as I got older, he hired me to help him out.

My parents unfortunately, did not like farm life and were trying to get out so when I graduated high school at 16, they paid for my college to be an accountant. I met my husband who we shared a mutual dream to have our own dairy farm. I got married and moved into an apartment with my husband and shortly after had a child.

It's been 5 years since marriage and I still help my grandmother with her garden every year, work with my uncle every Saturday. Since we live in an apartment, the bulk of our money goes to savings for the farm. We have almost 200k saved, my uncle promised me my first batch of chickens and first cow, and even to help build our shop but I'm realizing that might not be enough.

Sometime in the past few years, my husband has found that he doesn't want a farm anymore though that's all we talked about 5 years ago. And has decided to tell me only this morning.

I'm crestfallen and feeling like my life up to this point had no purpose. Please let me know if I really don't have a chance, I think I need to hear it because I don't have the heart to talk to my uncle about this after all this.

Posted Jan 14, 2026, 12:04 AM UTC

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