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RE: 🌱to💰• Growing Money In Your Yard Series • {pt2} • Grow What You Know & How to Find Profitable Opportunities
Wow, what a long and valuable post! We are hoping to get some dirt to our name in 2019 and I would love to start growing some for profit, although our main focus will be to grow for our own consumption.
I really like the idea of growing mushrooms and will add that to my list of things to look into. From what I've gathered they don't require much work compared to what you can fetch for them and now that you've mentioned drying them, you don't have the risk of losing all your profit if you don't get a crop sold for some reason. I'll follow along and look forward to learning a bunch more from you.
I really appreciate the support, @frugallady! Very exciting times! Its never too early to plan, you've got the right idea. Before we ever went to settlement on this property, I had already downloaded the solar path for the property for the next 25 years. By the time we purchased the property, I knew what parts of my property got the most hours of sunlight. Needless to say, I had a garden before I had furniture in my house 😋
Growing culinary mushrooms can be a very lucrative opportunity, indeed! The amount of money that can be generated is astounding when you consider the limited time and space required. It something that a grower can produce and like you mentioned, can dry and store if need be. Not quite a perishable as many other garden products.
Growing for market simply means growing more produce - this doesn't always mean you need more garden space than you currently have. A hobbyist gardener might produce just enough from the garden to eat, can, or freeze. A commercial grower is likely going to grow much more food in the same amount of space. It comes down to process & technique. I always recommend that gardeners research commercial growing techniques.
Take tomatoes for example. Some will have you believe that the average tomato plant will only produce 10-15lbs. per plant. It's true if you want it to be, but I have plants already this year that have done over 50lb on a single plant. Not really impressive when you consider there are experts out there on YouTube that have yielded over 1,000 pounds of tomatoes from a single 65ft tall tomato plant. I know, that's crazy. I want more people aiming for those numbers, rather than the minimum figures that many "Gardener-friendly" sites publish.
Also look into truffle orchards, an incredibly profitable venture if you are in an optimal growing location. I was blown away at the amount of money being made on truffle orchards.
There's plenty more information and useful resources to come, @frugallady! Stay tuned 🔥🚀 I'm just getting started!
We're all going to grow something better together
I can tell that I will learn a lot from you as just that comment taught me two new things: solar paths can be downloaded (pontential topic for a post maybe?) and people have truffle orchards?!
My mind is blown and I'm eager to learn more. Thank you for taking the time to write such a great response.
My pleasure! I love what I do and I do many things 😋
I appreciate that you took the time to engage with meaningful discussion and I do believe we have created some new future topics together, @frugallady! Certainly worth my time and I thank you for yours!!