I want to live on a farm

The idea of a farmer's wife sounds great to me.  Living off the land, no real time commitments, a slow life...I can see myself doing it, but at the same time I can't.

I think the appeal is the slow life, not having to rush anywhere, race to get out of the house, etc.  With that said I don't think I'm patient enough to be a farmer.

I don't like to be tied down either...which is why we don't have another dog (and that isn't that much of a commitment).  I met a woman downstate whose family owned a farm.  Listening to her story about how they can never take a vacation since they have to find workers to tend to the farm made me just plain sad for them.  Okay - that alone is enough for me to not want to live on a 'working' farm.

But what about just living on farm land?  Not necessarily with animals, but kind of taking my life now and transplanting it on a few acres?  Considering it I don't believe I'm patient enough to work with crops.  No matter how much I try to garden in my suburban yard, I just don't like the amount of work to wait and see if the crop, flowers, or even just green plants took correctly.  Writing this down makes me find that stupid common theme...failure.  Shoot...art class, can you come any sooner to help me get over this fear?

Wonderful Husband and I think that we would like to live on a farm together.  We talk about it often on our evening hang-out-on-the-front-porch dates.  Lots of my coworkers live in Ohio on farms and still work in the tech industry.  We could do that...but we'd be far from our family whose help we couldn't survive without.  We also joke about how we would like to live in Hawaii.  I think the joke isn't a joke...we both want to move to Hawaii but are too afraid to make the leap.  I think my sister may be on board after her recent honeymoon too...maybe it's something for us to work on getting my whole family to move there together!

I think the ultimate goal is living the slower life...and with each other.  Do you think we could make this happen in Chicago?  I have to think about this and see what I come up with.