The book describes a pretty nice small farm arrangement. Basically the guy has a field of grass and has some cows and chickens. The cows graze on the grass and poop, the chickens pick apart the poop and eat insects and he's basically just moving around fencing once every day or two. Since it's not mass farming of animals he doesn't have to deal with as much waste at scale, and he sells high end meat in addition to some produce he works on separately.

Doesn't sound that bad once you get it going but I'm sure there's a lot of day to day work.