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  • From: robert schuler <sunnfarm AT bellatlantic.net>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Jumping Into Farming
  • Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 10:20:37 -0500

Marj, I wish you the best of luck. But I have to say looking back at thirty
years of full time vegetable farming , it was fun and I still look forward to
the coming years. But financially its becoming extremely hard to make ends
meet.
The costs of living have risen many times faster than the value of our
products,
there are two economies in the USA, the farm and non farm and both are moving
apart faster than ever...Don't give up your day job...Bob.
Sunny Meadow Farm
Bridgeton, NJ.

MMN wrote:

> Any thoughts/advice you can share will be appreciated. I've grown stuff in
> my yard but never on a farm scale. As a NOFA member, I've attended
> workshops on various aspects of farming, from the business end of things to
> understanding crop pests, but this is all book learning rather than hands
> on.
>
> I'm in the market for a house, so I put out some feelers for a farm and
> discovered a land trust that will sell a farm house and outbuildings to a
> farmer along with the option to lease the surrounding acreage. Herbs and
> cut flowers were what I had in mind although I'd certainly grow some veggies
> and would love to have fruit, too.
>
> Provided the land trust is willing to let a newbie farmer buy the place, am
> I totally crazy to even be thinking of jumping right into farming this
> way???
>
> Thanks!
>
> Marj
>
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