...farming from backyard to small acreage as a stream of income
(Check out our sister site: Regenerative Agrarian)
Interested in earning a stream of income from backyard to small acreage in an earth and community regenerative manner?
Whether you've farmed for years or are an aspiring micro eco-farmer -- whether you want a spare time income supplement or to earn your full-time living this way -- the small local farming world is changing and blossoming.
New articles are added and updated regularly. Enjoy!
The business of micro eco-farming:
- Farmers using YouTube to increase the bottom line? Is it for you?
- Profiting with agritourism -- autumn harvest isn't the only season to target -- remember spring!
- Freeze drying your crops: Information to help you decide if this is a good value-added choice for you.
- Marketing and promoting the small eco-farm
- Start a farm home food business
- Selling your produce to local chefs and restaurants
- Farmers’ markets & roadside stands: Starting one or improving an existing one
- Adding on-farm bodywork or day spa services to your farm's agritourism
- Hosting weddings on the farm/ranch as an agritourism stream of income
- Connecting chef schools and local farms
- Setting up a small farm website
- Making a farm business plan
- Farming grants and loans Recently updated
- Finding farmland Recently updated
- Make a scarecrow (for attracting customers even more than for scaring birds!)
- Definition of Micro Eco-Farms: How they're so valuable, pleasurable, and even powerful
- Why "fun and inspiration" are powerful small farming success factors
- Insurance for smaller independent farms
Bees, crops and farm animals:
- Four lesser known goat breeds
- Eco-fiber farming, from wool to plant fibers, is on the rise
- Raising geese on the small eco-farm or homestead
- Growing cool weather olives for fun and profit
- Growing aronia berries as a sideline or fulltime cash crop
- Pumpkin seed oil as a cash crop
- Growing heirloom melons for profit
- Grow gourmet and medicinal mushrooms -- how one man started in his basement and garage and now has a thriving business.
- Grow shiitake mushrooms as a full time or part time farm revenue stream
- Vintage pumpkins and autumn ornamentals -- from spare time income to 6-digit incomes.
- Grow a fairy tale -- the Cinderella pumpkin
- Growing heirloom potatoes for fun or profit
- New and sustainable ways with horses: Part I and Part II
- Miniature cattle, including the miniature milk cow
- Raising ducks in the backyard or barnyard
- Alternative honeybee hive for healthy backyard and small plot farms
- A homemade honeybee watering station can add health to your bees
- Keeping chickens -- some great backyard or small farm alternative methods
- Growing large amounts of grapes sustainably
- Peace with predators: An interesting possible approach
- Start a goat brush clearing business on small acreage
- Growing heirloom tomatoes for profit
- Raising healthy bunnies for fun and profit
- Build a cinder block raised bed in an hour
- Crops for the winter CSA -- fresh and storage crops
- Attracting and keeping orchard mason bees for natural native pollination
Real local farm & farmers market profiles: (more will be added as we transfer here from our old host, and as we create more brand new profiles)
- Success secrets of a profitable heirloom potato farm
- How a small blueberry farm was built and succeeded, with tips on starting your own
- Micro goat dairy starts with less than an acre
- Story of single mother earning income from her wheatgrass micro eco-farm
- Micro dairy starts and reaches success with just five cows!
- Lavender micro farm succeeds with vertical product expansion and agritourism
- Profile of a successful Arizona farmers market
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