Time for the farm

You should not spend a lot of time to find the resources. You need to change your lifestyle and spend more time in creating the farm. Tilling the soil, planting the seedlings, creating a shelter for the animals, creating the backyard pond need a lot of time and energy.

Once the farm is built, you would be required to spend even more time on it. Your schedule would involve

Waking up early in the morning to feed the animals

Watering the plants and providing water to the animals.

Tending the plants and cleaning the shelters

Weeding the garden and harvesting the fruits, vegetables, milk and eggs, if any.

Storing them in the right condition.

Cleaning the animals

Adding manure and adding the waste to the compost pit.

Feeding and watering, in the evening

Making all the animals return to their shelter, in the evening.

Checking whether the animals have created any damage to the plants and tending to it.

Vacations would be out of your schedule. You can go out occasionally but cannot spend a lot of time away from your house, without anyone looking after the plants and animals. You need to have like-minded neighbors to farm-sit your backyard, while you go out. Creating interest of backyard farming in children can help you save time, as they would tend to simple chores in the garden. Name a plant or animal after each of your children and make them responsible for it. This would help you gain more time.