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Even hobby farms are hard to manage. Think you'll just have a couple sheep and a cow?  How do you shear the sheep?  How do you milk the cow? Get it pregnant? Still have to know all the details of raising them and keeping them healthy whether its 4 or 400 or 4000.  And what if they arent eating all the grass? How do you manage the grass on your 40 hectares?  Winter feed? Gonna need a little tractor probably....  Who's doing the fencing? Were we thinking this would be cheap and we'd live off the land?  lol
I wouldn't say it comes from stardew valley, this trope of "living a simple farmer life" is rather old.
That being said, I agree. Farming is hard, and anyone who had worked in the fields knows it up to a certain extent. >

Can be simple and hard work. >

It isn't simple at all though. You have to know what to plant, when to plant, how to plant, where to plant, irrigation, pesticides, fertilization, weather, water flow dynamics, and endless more topics to get a good crop, if you're lucky. Not to mention the business side >

You have to be a mechanic, a horticulturalist, a chemist, a stock market analyst, a geneticist, a meteorologist...for real farms, anyway. Not hobby "farms".  It's not at all simple.