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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 09:01:01 AM
This morning I have had 2 phone calls. One for eggs and another for a bushel of tomatoes. And I have both. I can actually provide produce, eggs, dairy products and meat and live animals for people. How cool is that? I will never be rich on just 3 acres, but I am in my heart. It makes me feels so good to know that I have things people need and want. And it is good food too. A very good feeling.
Are there others here that actually make a living on their farms? I would love to hear about it.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 28 2011 : 9:00:39 PM
I think this is just in my blood. I love it. I don't really know where it came from. My husband and I have always had gardens and animals. 7 years ago we bought this place and have been going at it ever since. I think I will always do this, some way or another. We have 3 acres and a neighbor lets me keep my cow and calf on his pasture next door to help keep it mowed down. We've dpne alot here but it needs so much more. I started out here with chickens and goats. Then gradually got sheep and sold them. Then a few calves. Now I have turkeys and more sheep and more goats and a cow and her calf. You just have to see what works for you.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| camiesmommy |
Posted - Jul 28 2011 : 7:50:08 PM
My DH and I live on 2 1/2 acres in Northern Nevada. It's mostly dirt at this point. The kids are finally grown and now we can concentrate on what we want to do. We have a small garden, but I have to say where do you start? I think our first livestock will be chickens and have talked about a dairy cow. Sometimes I get really overwhelmed. Did you always farm? And if not where did you start?
A.J.
Work is love made visible. ~ Kahlil Gibran |
| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 7:22:03 PM
Holly, my farm name is Outback Farm. We are so far away from every where here.
Vicki, the asparagus sounds like a good food to sell. I like it fresh. And I have never seen it here at any farmer's market. I have a cow and calf too. I raise all our meat. And I just recently go 3 Katahdin ewes to be my foundation flock to raise lamb for meat. And I am going to be getting meat chickens soon to sell.
Grace, you have had a hard summer. That's so strange to hear of so much hail. I wish I could send you some tomatoes. And Alee, too. Has it been like this all over your area?
Pam, that is one thing I really don't like. I know they are so good for you but the seeds are so big. Like blackberries. Don't like to eat them either. But I can see why they would be so expensive. And that was really nice of y'all to give them away. At least you got good things in return.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| 22angel |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 6:54:14 PM
On the raspberry note...I remember picking buckets & buckets of raspberries & giving them away for free! Now the kids are charging $15/pail (4L ice cream pail) for them! How crazy is that?! I think it's ridiculous, really. We weren't allowed to charge anything for them, but all the people who got pails either ended up making jam for us or making something else at some other time for us.
Life isn't about finding yourself. It's about creating yourself.
"When I grow up, I want to be dirt." seen on a box through construction in Wyoming 2010 |
| grace gerber |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 4:27:18 PM
Oh my mouth is watering for those tomatoes - With all the hail and storms no one around me have tomatoes left. I did not even try this year after all I was hit with. First year since I can remember that I will not have homegrown tomatoes... Good luck with the "Farming Business"... I am green with envy - wait those are my weeds...
Grace Gerber
Larkspur Funny Farm and Fiber Art Studio
Where the spirits are high and the fiber is deep
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| Alee |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 3:52:06 PM
That is wonderful Kris! I wish I had a bushel of tomatoes!! If it wasn't crazy logistics wise I would come buy a bushel from you! :)
Alee
Farmgirl Sister #8
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| FG Vicki |
Posted - Jul 27 2011 : 3:01:34 PM
I sell a few rabbits and eggs, but hope to get my asparagus bed big enough to sell asparagus(I have about 100 plants now that are 3 years old), also I hope to sell raspberries and strawberries someday, but I still work out of the house. We raise a few cows and our herd is now 3 cows and a steer(Ribs). We have been eating our own beef for many years.
I can't think of anything I would like better than to be earning money growing and selling :)
"What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything"
Vincent van Gogh |
| Tall Holly |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 1:20:40 PM
I think your name should represent where you live so when people see your "rand they will know that living and working the landin the city is possible. So, something like Urban Acre Farm or "Grows in the Dessert" Nothing fancy or pretty but something to make a point and a little educating too.
Holly
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| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 1:13:07 PM
Proud of you Kris. Just to say that you can do it is amazing. Life is good. :)
--* FarmMilkMama *--
Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
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| kristin sherrill |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 12:57:02 PM
You are right, Tina. I do just about break even. And that's ok. I still love doing this.
Kris
Happiness is simple. |
| embchicken |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 11:44:34 AM
Amen Tina!
~ Elaine
Farmgirl sister #2822
"Find yourself a cup of tea; the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things." ~Saki
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| oldbittyhen |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 10:51:11 AM
If what you sell/trade/barter helps pay the feed bill, gives you food for your table, and in the end after everything is added up, you just break even, you are a farmer...
"Knowlege is knowing that a tomato is a fruit, Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad" |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Jul 25 2011 : 10:02:35 AM
That is awesome Kris!!!
I sure won't make a living on my farmette...no milk to sell this year and I barter with my eggs and some produce and sometimes wool (which still helps feed my family so I like that!) Someday maybe more than that..you never know!
Jenny in Utah
Proud Farmgirl sister #24
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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