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  • From: Richard Stewart <rstewart AT zoomtown.com>
  • To: Market Farming <market-farming AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Market-farming] bottom line
  • Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 16:53:13 -0500

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




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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