All plowed up and no plants to grow
Not actually true, I do have plants to grow but would like to think of some different ones.
Those of you who have been to the farm have seen my garden the past few years, maybe a half acre total, in which I’ve actually raised a significant amount of food last year. I’ve got about 4 acres more ground plowed and in process of being prepared for planting this year. I will have a separate area for vine crops such as squash and pumpkins as well as plots for corn, soybeans, sorghum for bird and deer food, and probably some wheat and rye for next season. The corn will be open pollinated yellow dent, organic and pesticide free. I am thinking of offering it on the net at an outrageous price for a half bushel or so, hoping that aging hippies will buy it as food for their organic, pesticide free yard squirrels. Also have several pounds of edamame seed which I might try to sell to squirrels as food for aging pesticide free hippies. I will of course try to raise a significant amount of the usual staples such as potatoes, turnips, sweet corn, tomatoes, cabbage, etc.
What I am really trying to figure out is “What can I raise and/or how can I market the stuff in order to make a buck?” If anybody has an idea about a product or a marketing angle, I would really like to hear it. My new motto is something along the lines of “People got to eat, so they might as well pay through the nose for food.” What sort of product would you consider paying through the nose for just because you would really like to have it and there isn’t a consistent supply available? Not looking for a commitment to buy anything, just ideas. Plants or animals considered. If it grows in dirt or walks around and eats stuff that grows in dirt I can probably raise it.
Current project is a bullet proof chicken pen built along the lines of the redneck greenhouse, but covered in chicken wire instead of plastic. I bought 31 chickens two weeks ago and still have all 31, probably because they haven’t been outside the bullet proof chicken house. The chickens will of course be free ranging under normal circumstances, but I think I need a small pen where I can leave them unattended for a day or so and assume they will still be intact when I get back.
Also thinking long and hard about a cellar design. I have almost decided to build it using treated posts and plywood, then coating with tar and wrapping in plastic before covering with dirt. Cost and time would be less than half that of a poured concrete structure. At my advanced age, I would plan to die before it caves in. Anybody got any experience with that sort of thing? (Timber framed foundations, not dying.)
Those of you who have been to the farm have seen my garden the past few years, maybe a half acre total, in which I’ve actually raised a significant amount of food last year. I’ve got about 4 acres more ground plowed and in process of being prepared for planting this year. I will have a separate area for vine crops such as squash and pumpkins as well as plots for corn, soybeans, sorghum for bird and deer food, and probably some wheat and rye for next season. The corn will be open pollinated yellow dent, organic and pesticide free. I am thinking of offering it on the net at an outrageous price for a half bushel or so, hoping that aging hippies will buy it as food for their organic, pesticide free yard squirrels. Also have several pounds of edamame seed which I might try to sell to squirrels as food for aging pesticide free hippies. I will of course try to raise a significant amount of the usual staples such as potatoes, turnips, sweet corn, tomatoes, cabbage, etc.
What I am really trying to figure out is “What can I raise and/or how can I market the stuff in order to make a buck?” If anybody has an idea about a product or a marketing angle, I would really like to hear it. My new motto is something along the lines of “People got to eat, so they might as well pay through the nose for food.” What sort of product would you consider paying through the nose for just because you would really like to have it and there isn’t a consistent supply available? Not looking for a commitment to buy anything, just ideas. Plants or animals considered. If it grows in dirt or walks around and eats stuff that grows in dirt I can probably raise it.
Current project is a bullet proof chicken pen built along the lines of the redneck greenhouse, but covered in chicken wire instead of plastic. I bought 31 chickens two weeks ago and still have all 31, probably because they haven’t been outside the bullet proof chicken house. The chickens will of course be free ranging under normal circumstances, but I think I need a small pen where I can leave them unattended for a day or so and assume they will still be intact when I get back.
Also thinking long and hard about a cellar design. I have almost decided to build it using treated posts and plywood, then coating with tar and wrapping in plastic before covering with dirt. Cost and time would be less than half that of a poured concrete structure. At my advanced age, I would plan to die before it caves in. Anybody got any experience with that sort of thing? (Timber framed foundations, not dying.)
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