RE: Income Ideas For Our Future Permaculture Homestead
I recently left a job working for an herbal medicine company(not cannabis, which everyone now days thinks is the only "herbal medicine"). Finding connections with manufacturers of medicinal herbs in your community and becoming a source for them is a great gig. I don't recommend offering to dry your plants as many want(total pain in the ass), but you can find plenty that still want fresh. They can often tell you something that they have been having a hard time sourcing that you may be willing to contract with you for. Great side crop for cash flow if you have a bit of land. The other thing I've recently been interested in is bringing a lot culinary herbs that historically have been imported back to the states. I've been totally jazzed with what Vermont farmers have been doing with Saffron(crocus). If you ever get a chance to check it out it's supa' sweet. All the info is on the WWW
Its kinda like everything.....get the seed planted and be guided. But the possibilities are truly endless!
This is great @mle777! Nice going building a business and sticking to your gut about the product you want to sell. I wonder how did you find and approach the herbal medicine businesses?
I have another idea of growing weeds and selling them as medicine and food.
Well, there are a lot of "weeds" that are both food and medicine. I guess by categorizing something as a weed that would infer that it took little maintenance to grow, lol.
It was not my business that I was working for, I was just managing a section of the company. I could write a book on what I see wrong with herbal medicine being brought into mainstream commerce. As a more traditional herbalist it really does trouble me. I'm old school....I think one should have a connection and knowledge of the plant. One of the main reasons I left the company. But there are some pretty good gigs out there working with smaller companies that would want to source" weeds" or herbs from smaller farms.