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- From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>
- To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II
- Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:10:12 -0400
Does anyone make enough farming to pay themselves $10-20/hour?
Lynn Wigglesworth
Cowbridge Farm
----- Original Message -----
From: "Willie McKemie" <mf AT austinfarm.org>
To: "Market Farming" <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2008 10:05 AM
Subject: Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:49:29AM -0400, Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > From: "TradingPostPaul"
> > > I'm on one acre myself and garden part of it profitably, and
> > > alone at 64.
> >
> > There's profitable, then there is making a living. Profitable just
means
> > getting back more than you put into it. I farm (pasture-raised beef
and
> > some eggs and vegetables sold from a farmstand), and I turn a profit
of
> > $3,000-4,000 in a good year.
>
> >I< would consider "profitable" to be having money left over after you
> paid yourself $10-$20 an hour and after you paid yourself several
> hundred dollars per acre for land rent. And, of course, after you
> amortize off all your equipment and improvements. You should not
> consider temporary positive cash flow to be "profitable".
>
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
JOHN A HENDRICKSON, 04/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Beth Spaugh, 04/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Richard Robinson, 04/25/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Bill Shoemaker, 04/25/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Beth Spaugh, 04/26/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Richard Robinson, 04/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Beth Spaugh, 04/25/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Richard Stewart, 04/25/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
TradingPostPaul, 04/26/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Krystle, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Willie McKemie, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 04/27/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Willie McKemie, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Beth Spaugh, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Krystle, 04/27/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Bill Shoemaker, 04/28/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Krystle, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Lynn Wigglesworth, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Willie McKemie, 04/27/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Creekside, 04/27/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
sunnfarm, 04/28/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Bill Shoemaker, 04/29/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, Wiediger, Alison, 04/29/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
Krystle, 04/30/2008
- Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II, breck, 04/30/2008
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Re: [Market-farming] Why do it II,
JOHN A HENDRICKSON, 04/25/2008
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