RE: 🌱to💰• Growing Money In Your Yard Series • {pt2} • Grow What You Know & How to Find Profitable Opportunities
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!!