[Market-farming] $90k per acre

Richard Stewart rstewart at zoomtown.com
Fri Apr 25 11:23:11 EDT 2008


I have his labor costs somewhere...I'll try to find them.

Rich

On Apr 25, 2008, at 9:05 AM, Andy Fellenz wrote:

> Sure you can make $90K/acre, especially if you extrapolate from a  
> 44X60 foot plot, or even from 14 44X60 intensively managed plots.   
> One thing to remember is that gross revenues get the headlines, but  
> net revenues are what pays your bills.  What I did not see in the  
> write-up was any discussion of labor costs to manage the micro  
> scale polyculture system the professor is trialing or how he is  
> doing his marketing.  Marketing is critical with this style system  
> as you are counting on retail pricing and will never have much of  
> any one thing at a time.
>
> I  grow more than 50 different fruits and vegetables each year on  
> <10 acres and do intercropping with annual vegetables mixed into my  
> orchard.  I have found as I have scaled up from an ~1/2 acre market  
> garden that designing for efficient utilization of labor and  
> equipment makes a bigger difference on the bottom line than to try  
> to cram as much as you can into a small area.
>
>
>
> Andy
> www.FellenzFamilyFarm.com
>
>
> Christian wrote:
>>
>> http://extension.osu.edu/~news/story-print.php?id=4487
>>
>> I am not a real farmer yet (YET) but this sounds like a good idea  
>> to me. Polyculture instead of monoculture. In other words. Don't  
>> grow so many acres of just one product but mix it up. Grow  
>> multiple products per acre. High value crops. And grow them close  
>> to town so the customers don't have to travel so far to get to them.
>>
>> Any thoughts? I can't wait until 50 people tell me it can't be  
>> done. That will assure me that it CAN be done.
>>
>>
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