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  • From: "Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>
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  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Market Farming Basics Getting started in market farming
  • Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:31:07 -0700


"a few acres"? they just don't know how to grow without the high costs of
industrial farming, do they. In practice growers in most places don't really
make a "decent income". Big agribusiness, the competition, gets too much
subsidies from taxes to keep grocery prices low. When fossil fuel inputs (in
fertilizer & pesticides) keep going up too much for growers then organic
market growers will be in great demand.
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Market Farming Basics Getting started in market farming
http://www.growingformarket.com/categories/MarketFarmingBasics

If you're thinking about, or just getting started in direct market farming,
welcome to the business! It's a great way to make a livelihood. Being a
farmer means working outdoors, being your own boss, meeting challenges and
surmounting them, caring for a piece of land, and, most of all, doing the
important work of feeding people.

All over the United States and Canada, families are making a decent income
from direct marketing of food and flowers. Their businesses range from the
1-acre market garden that provides extra income for retirement or college, to
the 100-acre vegetable farm that supports several generations. Market farmers
come from all walks of life -- from conventional farms, of course, but also
from urban occupations with no farming experience.

Market farming is also unique in that it doesn't take a lot to get started --
a few acres, some basic equipment, a love of growing things, an intellectual
curiosity, and a genuine enjoyment of hard work.
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paul tradingpost@lobo.net






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