[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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