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  • From: "Andrew R. King" <andrew.king2 AT worldnet.att.net>
  • To: <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Market-farming] Economics of starting a market garden enterprise
  • Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:24:05 -0500

Robert Schuler

 

I Read your 12/10/04 posting on Market Farming, Economics of stating a market Farm and wanted to say thanks. Your posting answered a question I have been asking myself.

 

I bought 10 acres when I was 25, hopping to make a living on the land. Fortunately at that time, I was smart enough to know I needed a real job to pay the bills. After 30 yrs running a financial business, my career ended shortly after 9/11. I spent the next year trying to restart my business and then another looking for a way to make a living. I searched the web looking for ways to use my land. I used only information found on college web sites thinking it would be more reliable then the how to books people sell. The data on market farming looked like it might be the answer. For the past two years I have tried to make a go at it, and have modeled my business on Eliot Coleman’s book the NEW ORGANIC GROWER. While I have been moderately successful at copying his game plan the numbers never seemed to work out. For the past three months I have been reading profiles of successful growers and asking my self, what is it that I am doing wrong.  

 

Andy King

Sunflower King’s Farm

Trumbauersville, PA




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