Need Suggestions For Farm

How much land do you have? Diversification is usually the best. If you want to do trees, go ahead and plant them, then do something else while you're waiting for them to grow. You can combine several things together, like raising rabbits with a worm bed under them. If you live where you can sell the worms to fishermen or a store, you can make money from them. Or plant a big garden and sell produce or raise chickens, sell pullets and eggs. Or put out some hives for honeybees. If you have room for cows or sheep or goats, the opportunities are almost endless. Maybe the place to start is by writing down everything you enjoy doing, then choosing three or four from that list. You can add as you go along, or discover other things.

Try a u-pick-em strawberry farm. Strawberries are easy to grow, and they come back year after year.

Well Christmas trees or apple trees would be good but you would have to do somthing else in the mean time to cause the trees have to grow. I think it would still be a go though on the trees. Are you crafty?? Why not set the barn up like a craft store. What about getting horses and a sleigh and do sleigh rides in the winter and hay wagon rides the rest of the years. Is your land pretty could you offer weddings to take place there using the barn for wedding dances and wagon rides and such?? Hmmm not to sure sorry not much help. ~ Wendy

You are living my dream. If I had a farm I would grow corn and produce. I am better at growing things that keeping animals alive. I hope it works out great for you. Livestock is supposed to be very profitable but costy to get started into.

You are so lucky to live on a farm. if i had a farm i would get goats and cows and learn how to make artisan cheeses. i would also sell farm fresh eggs, homemade butter and have cheese making classes. With the internet i think you could make good money with worm farming you can ship them all over.

Goats are the way to go. We had 200 head for years. Both dairy and meat. Raise replacements for the dairies and sell wethers for meat. There is good money in it but it is work. Especially when you have to milk twice a day for months. I personally milked for 8 months and rested them and myself for 4 months. Most folks milk for 10 months. You can make soap and cheese. Also selling farm fresh veggies and eggs works great.

Ok, no one has suggested growing pumpkins yet. You can grow the pumpkins and have it where the customers come and pick their own. You could also grow corn and then in the fall make corn mazes and charge for people to go through. The corn you can eat for yourselves and sell some at road side stands, the remainder, you could sell to local farmers for cattle feed. Just a few suggestions that I hope you will take under advisement. Let all of us mylotian know what you decide. Good Luck in the farming business. P.S. I am envious with all that wide open land! Please don't forget to mark your best response.

Variety is the spice of life. Maybe you should have a vegetable garden, Christmas trees, fruit trees, even compost. Good compost is a great seller.

Well, I have no idea where you are now with your farm two years later...and not knowing what state you live in...I'll take a wild guess and say: soybeans and regular food plants and you can try to make a living selling locally? Soybeans are in pretty high demand in my state, mostly as a food crop for edamame (young beans which're used in dishes). MOSTLY, the demand is high because industrial farms can't do it as quickly and carelessly as corn crops. To have a crop of edamame, each individual plant needs attention...because the beans will all mature at different times. If you don't want that much work, pumpkins and tomatos would probably do very well. Chickens or turkeys maybe? Scout out your area and state and see what sorts of things are in high demand and what isn't...and then think about what you yourself can and want to do. I personally am farming on a little over an acre. I'm going for diversity more than anything: edamame, a whole bunch of different kinds of tomatos, I'm getting fruit trees, and berry plants (wolfberries, blackberries, and hopefully salmonberries), green beans, colrabi, a couple different kinds of corn, a few kinds of peppers, some herbs (mint, catnip, dandelion, ground ivy, clover, lemon balm), pumpkins, melons, squash...and a few other things we're squeezing in. On top of that I adopt young trees and raise them, and inside I'm attempting to grow some dwarf bananas and lemongrass. Eventually, I'll get assorted edible flowers so that I can candy them. And all my business will be local. A small portion of it will be online. It's not just me, so this type of small-farming isn't as overwhelming as you'd think. My Mom tends to go for bigger ideas, and she hopes to raise some chickens in the spring as well.

I wish I could be of some help to you... I would say christmas trees are a great thing but they only pay off a month or two a year.. I guess if you can make enough in that time .. great.. Maybe do christmas trees and something else... maybe do a sheep farm for wool.. i'm not sure how much they are demand.. I wish you all the luck.. :)