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You're right about some things but theres a few misconceptions here.
Farming is not back breaking work. Unless you grow a crop of potatoes or strawberries and try to harvest them yourself.
Here with a not-very-big farm you could grow hay to sell as fodder. Thats a few days on a tractor to seed then a few days on a tractor to cut and wrap.
You could also just lease the land to another farmer for them to run their livestock.
On a farm any larger than a few house blocks you e got a huge asset that kind of cant avoid producing value in some way.
The other aspect of retirement is that the objective usually is to avoid spending money rather than making money. You're right that growing a few of your own herbs is not going to save much money.
If youve got room and time then growing most of your own food doesn't really require "homesteading". Get a cow butchered, give half to the neighbour, that and eggs and chickens can be your protein for 6 months, then the neighbour gives you half their cow and so on.
The keys are time, area, and rural contacts. Yes you wont have the latest gadgets - you'd have e to pay for those from your pension - but the lifestyle is very survivable.