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| I have a friend at work that has an apple and pear orchid. He make good money for his fruit. Start up is a little costly but an good orchid can last up to 30yrs and has big plus if you want to sell your property later. |
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My Heelers are Heroes
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| I have alot of wild blackberry bushes that are big producers. My son in law picks them and makes cobbler. He says they are good berrys.
I've never watered or taken care of them. In fact I've wanted to cut them down but kids asked me not to.
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| I have a friend whose neighbor has some blackberry bushes unkept. I go every yr and get a bunch. half the time i wash them and jus eat them by the handful. I made some cobbler that was awesome also. They arent cheap at the store either. |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| Berries are not labor free but they could produce some pretty good income I think. There is a local nursery man who also has a berry farm where he sells blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries for $5 per quart or $20 per gallon and that's U PICK!! That seems like it should be profitable and he has had this business for at least 7 or 8 years that I know of. His main business is nursery so I'm sure he wouldn't bother with the Berry Farm if it wasn't fairly profitable. |
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Location: Phoenix | Might take a little more than you want to do, but what about RV/boat storage?
I think renting out pasture for people who don't have turnouts for their horses would be the easiest. |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| Also, one thing that hasn't been mentioned....I try to remember the saying all the time, "A penny saved is a penny earned" so if you can grow any of your food on your property then that's free money! Groceries are high, especially fruit, vegetables, and meat. Plant a garden and an orchard and fatten a steer and you'll have quite a bit of income from your land in money saved on groceries and its healthier too! |
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Location: East Tennessee but who knows?! | Truffles, Ginseng and other herbs are good options. |
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Location: bring on the heat, NV | Im getting involved in Icelandic sheep a milk, meat and fiber breed. I just reserved some ewe lambs and am on the hunt for the ram of their dreams lol.
I am doing a garden this year with some wild looking varietys (purple carrots, orange and stripped tomatos, purple and yellow watermelons, purple and white green beans) that I am going to offer in rope baskets for sale at some craft fairs or at a stand in town two weekends a month after harvest.
I have found a mill for the fiber, have three solid buyers for meat and am taking a cheese course in April... Kinda excited though since they are lambs I wont get to sell meat til 2015 or do the milk into yougurt/cheese/soap til then either. Also have a lady up the valley that felts so that maybe a buyer for wool. Plus, Im want to try weaving rugs and my own saddle blankets... We shall see. Kinda sounds fun though right. I am wanting to just have a few ewes though not a big flock. I hope by investing in really good stock I may be able to sell some of the best lambs as seed stock too.
Id like to get a Berkshire sow and AI for piglets to sell but hubby isnt totally on board yet.
I already have the coolest brown egg layers (golden sexlink) that I cant get enough eggs for folks.
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Location: When you hit the middle of nowhere .. Keep driving | With the pumpkins you can't sell I have turned it into dog treats and canned some for pies and the dogs. It's a great additive to a dogs diet and helps their digestive systems. I am thinking if done right you could make some $$ on that too. I don't like the deer feeding idea. I have one that likes to raid my garden at night as it is. If you feed them it might be more of a hassle IMO. I even have an electric fence around mine |
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| bennie1 - 2013-12-28 8:11 AM Whiteboy - 2013-12-27 2:12 PM ruggedchica - 2013-12-27 2:06 PM Whiteboy - 2013-12-27 1:00 PM Raspberries in wind tunnels. The tunnels can extend the growing season by 30-40 days. That's a good idea. Raspberries can do good here and I could sell rapsberry jam maybe too. So, how are the raspberries then marketed?
Road Side Stands
Farmers Markets
Independent Grocery stores
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| Thou I have no idea which could be grown in your area. I would consider spices. The price per pound verses how many pounds per acre is very high. |
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Meanest Teacher!!!
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Location: sunny california | i see a lot of mail order companys selling organic foods. that is what people are willing to spend money on. I know i pay a lot more than i have to in order to feed me and hubby. |
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Location: MT | Oh my gosh! Just got back on here after the weekend. What a BUNCH of wonderful ideas! Awesome!
Something else that I was thinking about over the weekend that might work for others too, is selling horseradish. We have a horseradish plant that grows like a weed and I thought that might be a good, easy addition to all the other ideas too. If I'm already at farmers market with raspberries, pumpkins and eggs - horseradish would be an easy thing to sell as well, I think.
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Location: Prosser, WA | I've read a couple of books on this and one guy really promotes raising chickens for meat. He even has a book out that part of the title includes the line "make $20,000 in 6 months". I'll have to look for the rest of the title and the author. Not sure how possible that is or what the market for chicken meat really is. |
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Location: ND--it snows, it floods, it snows, it floods | A pick your own berry place may be a way to start out and grow from there. Strawberries or Raspberry to start. One thing to keep in mind is do you really want people in your yard all the time? |
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Location: MI | kakbarrelracer - 2013-12-30 3:07 PM
I've read a couple of books on this and one guy really promotes raising chickens for meat. He even has a book out that part of the title includes the line "make $20,000 in 6 months". I'll have to look for the rest of the title and the author. Not sure how possible that is or what the market for chicken meat really is.Â
I think that's one of Joel Salatin's books...hmmmm....he has "you can farm" and "salad bar beef", I don't remember the name of the chicken one and I'm on my phone. His books are pretty straightforward and I enjoy them, he's a big proponent of sustainable ag.
Eta-I will say he's probably not for everyone. In the books I've read and when I've heard him speak, he does go on rants about "the Man", lol, and gov't, etc. But, he's got some decent, common sense ideas about farming, IMO - but I do get that not everyone will feel the same :)
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Strong Willed Woman
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Location: Prosser, WA | Ridenrun4745 - 2013-12-30 4:07 PM
kakbarrelracer - 2013-12-30 3:07 PM
I've read a couple of books on this and one guy really promotes raising chickens for meat. He even has a book out that part of the title includes the line "make $20,000 in 6 months". I'll have to look for the rest of the title and the author. Not sure how possible that is or what the market for chicken meat really is.Â
I think that's one of Joel Salatin's books...hmmmm....he has "you can farm" and "salad bar beef", I don't remember the name of the chicken one and I'm on my phone. His books are pretty straightforward and I enjoy them, he's a big proponent of sustainable ag.
Eta-I will say he's probably not for everyone. In the books I've read and when I've heard him speak, he does go on rants about "the Man", lol, and gov't, etc. But, he's got some decent, common sense ideas about farming, IMO - but I do get that not everyone will feel the same : )
 You are right about the author. The book is "Pastured Poultry Profits: Net $25,000 in 6 Months on 20 acres". |
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 How freakish is that?
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Location: Oregon | I think you have to find people willing to pay $6 a lb for organic chicken to make that kind of money. So you'd have to be close enough to a urban area to have a lot of rich yuppies. |
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Strong Willed Woman
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Location: Prosser, WA | crapshooter - 2013-12-30 4:46 PM
I think you have to find people willing to pay $6 a lb for organic chicken to make that kind of money. So you'd have to be close enough to a urban area to have a lot of rich yuppies. Â
 There are people around here selling 5 to 6 pound meat chickens for $20 apiece live. I was surprised to see them going for so much especially when they still need to be butchered.$25,000 in 6 months probably not realistic though. :) |
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I Need a Xanax!
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| docschic - 2013-12-30 3:30 PM
A pick your own berry place may be a way to start out and grow from there. Strawberries or Raspberry to start. One thing to keep in mind is do you really want people in your yard all the time?  Â
Very true...I wouldn't want people in my yard all the time BUT if you could only have set hours only a couple days a week I don't think that would be too big of a pain. My neighbor has a U Pick blueberry patch and its in his yard quite a ways from the house and he has a little drop box for the money there so he never has to deal with people and they can just come when they want. I'm sure there are people who don't pay on occasion but I'm sure its still worth it not having to deal with collecting money and having someone there all the time. Also, it takes about 45 minutes to pick a gallon so I'm sure a lot of people who would think about stealing the berries wouldn't be willing to do the work required to get the berries in the first place whether they were free or not. |
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