[Market-farming] bottom line

Richard Stewart rstewart at zoomtown.com
Sat Jan 3 16:53:13 EST 2009


Honey and apples and composted manure.  We do other things on the farm  
including corn and soybean and boarding horses and hay production, but  
I was not impressed with our market sales this year relative to  
vegetable produce.  The honey and apples netted far far more and the  
manure was something that started up as other gardeners wanted organic  
material for their raised beds.  At 15 bucks a Bobcat scoop for 200  
day + composted its a nice income from waste.

This year I am expanding from 6 colonies of bees to 40, planting more  
apples, and experimenting with grape vines.  I am cutting out all  
vegetable sales with the exception of a single market that we can  
support from an oversized family plot.

Richard Stewart
Carriage House Farm
North Bend, Ohio

An Ohio Century Farm Est. 1855

(513) 967-1106
http://www.carriagehousefarmllc.com
rstewart at zoomtown.com




On Jan 3, 2009, at 2:34 PM, Errol Castens wrote:

> Here's a bottom line question for those of us trying to squeeze  
> dollars
> out of limited time, land and inputs (and that's all of us, isn't  
> it?):
> What's your farm's proven cash cow - the one product that means the  
> most
> to your bottom line?
>
> errol castens
> Oxford, Mississippi

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