Profitable Vegetable Farming For A Beginner SMALL Farmer- Least Effort
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- Опубліковано 7 чер 2024
- What crops would you grow if you were new to farming and you wanted to be able to make a living? Here are three crops that don't take a lot of money to begin and can bring in an income with less labor than many others.
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I would like to know as much as possible about growing the strawberries. I got a little over an acre to work with. Tell me what you would have me do to be successful in growing the strawberries?
Strawberries, Asparagus and Garlic
Thank you!! You saved 9 minutes of my life! Very grateful!! 🥰✌️🇨🇦
@@galeparker1067 but without watching you don't know the why..
Funny, that’s exactly what I planted on my 4K m2.
@@RocketPipeTV Good choices! Asparagus beds need little management, strawberries will have babies to sell or do a Guerrilla-gardening thing (turn them loose! 🤣🥰), Garlic, don't know much about its ability to look after itself but, very medicanal....🥰
@@galeparker1067 I've herd that strawberries are natural companions to asparagus too, so maybe you could grow them together and save space? Not sure how well that would work commercially
Floridian here... We grow weeds, mosquitoes, and alligators...
Which is the BIGGEST?
No my family is from Florida I'm from Alabama it's oranges and peaches...
My top 3: Sativa, Indica & Hemp.
Cartel?
They sell well here.
😂
Well this is really assuring, started growing garlic myself as a hobby income with only 40 plants to start and this year I planted roughly 14,000. I was diagnosed with Meniere's disease 3.5 years ago now and have switched mindset to make farming my full income, between garlic and chickens as my main production I should make around $30k in sales this year and hopefully in 2 years be able to pay myself enough to make a living again. Currently we are living off solely my wife's income so expanding is very slow and difficult, as well as pretty much every dollar the business makes goes right back into the business.
god bless you meniere's disease is no joke
If you can propogate successfully plant orchards... It raises the value of your farm (should something ever occur) it has very little input costs aswell. Bananas are fast growers and yield really fast (very easy crop) as are coconut trees planted in a diamond formation. If you in a colder climate nut trees are an awesome pension plan...
You can always plant row crops in between your orchards ( which is what I do) and have mushrooms as intacrops which is a fantastic way of reducing fertilizer and weeding, it incorporates worms homogeneously and if you rotate crops you'll have virtually a very lucrative business.
I've started incorporating flowers (marygolds,agapanthas ect) and am looking at bee hives in the near future to complete the ecosystem. This may sound market gardenish but I use a small cab tractor to plant and seed and it's really very little input labour wise as you end up mostly packaging and harvesting which is what one intends to do!
If you do plant orchards in this manner, stay away from all dwarf varieties and wait the extra few years as diseases will cripple your mixed crops and regardless what you told a natural non dwarf tree is far healthier with far more yields over a longer life cycle.
I propagated all my trees and after 2 years they don't even need water! I pray you recover and God bless
Yes garlic is easy to grow and not too much looking after planting ....
Who do you sell to? Local grocers? Farmers markets? I’d like to grow but don’t know what types of outfits to contact and sell to. Thanks in advance.
Awesome. I attended a chi kung healing course and someone there had Meniere's disease , after the second day they had no more vertigo and by the end they said it was gone.
Garlic is by far my favorite crop to grow for this exact reason! It's also a very easy sell to people since they know exactly what to do with it. Highly recommend.
If I were to start planting garlic, where would I find buyers? Thanks in advance!
yup!
@@HouseOfJabezfarmers markets, however don't shy away from contacting local restaurants and asking if they're wanting to source local.
@@HouseOfJabez I realize this is super late so I apologize but I generally just sell to individuals I know!
I know a lot of people who will gladly buy 10+ bulbs per season from me every year. One friend of mine comes from a German family and she bought 40 bulbs last year and came back a few months later for another 10. Restaurants can be really great if you have a significant volume, but otherwise the most money will really be from value-added products (think garlic sauces, garlic powders, fermented honey garlic, meat rubs etc) they require more work but it extends the shelf life and is easier for people to know what to do with them right away so you can get a higher profit margin.
Thanks, Chad! I appreciate all the info you share in your videos. Hope you're having a wonderful summer!
Wow.
This was so amazing.
I don’t even know how I came across this video but I am grateful that I did.
This really just got me thinking…..
Thank you.
I really appreciate the breakdown. It's not for sustainability or prepping, but for integrating with the local food system. While I won't be doing this on a commercial scale, it's a good heads up for wannabe gardeners.
Thanks Chad!!! Another great video. God bless you!
Thank you! May you have a Blessed New Year!
From my experience, if late summer and early autum is fairly free, i would suggest autum raspberries. They start to give berries in mid/late or late summer and finish at first frost nights. Labor intensive to collect them all, but close to zero work to maintain them
Love to hear advice from people who actually do it.
I am always looking at what works for others.
This was a good one.
Thanks for doing this interview! I live in Colorado and want to start a small farm soon in a few years.
Seriously, this is a great video. Very useful info.
Very impressive young man! incredible accomplishments in agriculture
In my country,for this spring it would be green onions,cilantro and amaranth for quick money; then potatoes,onions,garlic,ginger and okra.
So practical with the financials too!
Excellent
Thanks for all the good information and good luck with the farming. :)
I LOVE you for this video, changed my life!
I can't thank you enough for this - God bless
This is my new favorite channel
This was a great video! Love the explanation.
Great video all around, your questions were spot on I’m sold I’m signing up! Keep it going I appreciate what you’re doing for us all wannabe farmers. Keep on planting 😊
Hey Chad great to see you . All of us in Northern Maine miss you . Say hi to Fadia.
While i definitely agrre with strawberries, I would argue that fast growing greens are the best profit. Baby salad greens, baby lettuce, arugula, spinach, etc. You're looking at 21-30 days to harvest. I get about 1lb per foot on a 48" wide bed. You can also harvest maybe every 7-10 days. $12-16/lb sale price. So on a 4' wide by 100' long bed, you're producing 100lbs per week or $1,200-$1,600 per week in gross profit. That translates to over $100,000 per acre for a crop that takes 3-4 weeks from seed to harvest. Of course, it's more specialized work, you need to be cultivating by hand, know how to harvest, wash, pack, and the most important part and most difficult part...sell it. Green onions (scallions) are another high profit crop.
its funny because another farming channel in australia went over lettuce as a cash crop. they had such a shortage of lettuce that hamburger fast food places switched to cabbage, and lettuce heads were selling for 12 dollars each. the shortage was due to flooding. but its an interesting point. lettuce CAN be quite profitable and its good to keep it in mind.
We have a farm that specializes in micro greens. Have no idea what they are, but they always seem to sell out whenever they have a crop in
Have you considered worm farming? They are selling for $55lb! I raise millions of worms to sell/fertilize my garden, and to show others how to care for them :) no acreage needed!
Since you mentioned these products...a farmer would be better served by not growing leafy greens , annual herbs, and strawberries in the outdoors in soil but rather grown indoors aeroponically.
No pests, no bolting & consistent year round continuous harvests.
Salad greens are fast and require little capital investment, but more difficult to grow and market than strawberries or garlic. I don't know about asparagus.
Some interesting insights. I wouldn’t have guessed those 3 crops, but it makes a lot of sense.
So many variables... Great video, this will surely stir up lots comments and some hidden knowledge..
I'm a farmer on the east coast of Australia, my choice for top three (certified organic) crops:
1. Turmeric
2. Garlic
3. Lemon myrtle
Wuau THANKS. this is so helpful we are moving to our farm house in September and we are starting to plan for the farm so this video was extremely helpful. 👍🏼
Hope your move goes well. Blessings.
excellent suggestions! thank you for producing this!
You are welcome. Blessings.
This is a fantastic video. Your choice of people to interview was the best. He really knows his business. Knowing the possible return on investment was very helpful.
Thank you for sharing.
I really enjoyed this video more of these type of videos would be awesome
Hopefully many more will be coming on subjects like this. Blessings.
Thank you for this info! Love ideas for making money on a homestead. Need to give my husband some vision for moving to the country! 😀
Lol,were there is a will there is a way.thid video may be your answer.stsrt packing. Lol
This is great information. Lots of good specific details.
great video. gave me some good answers and idea's. thanks people
Thanks! plenty garlic, now focusing on the strawberry, and asparagus.🌻🥰🌻🙏
Thank you for this great video!
I grow passionfruit in New Zealand and you can also grow foliage or flowers for florists as a 2nd crop.
Nice easy explanation and style of presentation. Thank you sir.
In Estonia with Scotland type weather
Raspberry because easy to multiply for free
Strawberry can work too but only if you cover to catch early season high prices
Garlic work well too just need lot of straw
Asparagus if bio is overpriced and under produced. Need sandy soil dont care for salt
If patient go for tree crops:
Walnuts
Chestnut
Seaberry
Plum
Apple
Pear
You can do pasture chicken or duck or geese while the orchards grows in agro forestry style
Thank you this was very helpful!!
Awesome video, thanks for this 👍
Wow! Great info! Thanks
Hadn’t thought about asparagus thanks for that tip
I would do winter squash, garlic/onion, cabbage/sauerkraut, peppers.
I will always cheer for you in Korea I'm looking forward to a great video. Have a nice day.
Me and my wife were just trying to figure out the crops that will make us an income when we leave for our homestead next year .This is definitely a blessing and great information thank you.
You are welcome. I appreciate my friend Adner’s input on these crops.
Think about a pond to grow protein, fish, cardas. Save water when tanks are not available
just mix up your crops, best life insurance there is. Check out syntropic agriculture.
No it's not a blessing at all. He's a moron and is setting you up for failure. Asparagus takes years to produce, unless you pay a ton of money for established plants. Strawberries have tons of issues without chemicals and fertilizer inputs. Garlic has to be overwintered to produce good bulbs so you're dependent on the right season. Grow salad greens, carrots, zucchini/squash and any other easy fast producing vegetable that's commonly eaten.
Remember to add minerals to your soil. You only gotta do that shit about every ten years and makes the food you consume more nutrient dense.
I picked strawberries at a local orchard when I was a teenager and it is back breaking work.
Much better than sitting in office for a minimum wage
@@user-zn9pw6ox3m I made much less than minimum wage at that time and think that if you will but unless you have done both, which I have, you can't understand the reality of the situation.
Me too. Hardest work I ever did
Great info and presentation.
Wonderful, thank you!
I'd argue if you just starting best is to grow stuff that can be either preserved or refined into something long lasting before you manage to get your produce on market.
Garlic is definitely good choice because it can be store for long , also can be grounded into powder that can yield more profit sold as that. Good choice would be spicy peppers like chilis , you can dry them on sun without too much investment and grind as well with decent enough blender , same goes for something like boldog pepper etc.
Pretty much spice herbs can be good starters cuz if you have issues with placement on market they can always be processed more and preserved for longer.
Berry bushes like chokeberry , aronia berry can yield a lot once they start producing and can always be refined into juice or jam from home kitchen without too much investment to start with.
Great input.
I worked on a veggie farm for years. Garlic is easy as to grow. It’s very hardy and not that susceptible to insects or disease. It can be a bit of a pain to weed over winter and spring but it’s worth it. If you can’t afford the garlic harvesting and processing machines, you can actually run a blade underneath raised beds to make them easier to pull. Pairing these with a consistent cash crop like brassicas (also easy as to grow, some problems with insects though) if you have the water keeps the cash flowing.
My experience of field grown tomatoes is they are worth alot but are both difficult and extremely time consuming. They’re also an expensive crop to get in the ground.
Tl;dr grow garlic. If you get your hands on some cool varieties can bring in the dollars.
P.s. a nice chipping tater is a good crop as well.
Best idea you share to us. Thanks a lot.
I love your channel. Godly man talking about homesteading and living self sufficiently. Awesome content. Any plans in getting a freeze dryer?
I have considered it and would love it. I am a big fan of freeze drying. I believe it is the best method of preserving food.
Great info! Thanks!
Great info. Thank you sir.
For sure.
Perfect ad placement 😂. Love the video
Been growing strawberries for 40 years their more work than most people will want to do.
I think leafy greens are the easiest crops for the time poor and beginners.
Most people don't have the spine to pick strawberries.
I hate to say it, but any farming is more work than most people will want to do now days. Just a random thought though, if space is an issue, can use tower-like raised beds to stuff in more strawberry plants per foot and make it easier to tend to them compared to getting on the ground.
@@MCRnursery
That's a given. Westerners are severely de-conditioned, and generally unfit for physical labor.
I manage a 400 square meter vegetable garden on my own, and grow 75% from seed.
This garden is in the retirement village I live in. I conceived, arranged approval, started, and maintain the garden on my own.
I sell produce on Saturday mornings to residents.
No one else wants to help me, not even to water twice a week.
I do it because it relaxes me and I sleep better. But if I had helpers we could increase production by expanding the garden.
I started the garden as a way to get more people eating healthier and active.
I've failed at the second goal.
This has changed my view on humans.
I used to think I should try and help everyone equally.
I now think I should only help those who are willing to help themselves.......just like God!!!
@@helicart Well, you have to keep in mind the kind of society people grow up in now. Even at the basic level of schooling, they aren't trained in dealing with the sometimes difficult work that comes with life. There is little to no physical training anymore (concerning hard work). Parents aren't allowed to put their kids to work in the vegetable garden anymore, many parents wouldn't have one anyway as they say they have no time or energy. Busy busy busy doing this and doing that to have a life full of stuff and fluff and always hoping that one new thing or that one new event will make them happy. Happiness is what you make it, and sometimes it's a lot of work, but usually satisfying work. I think more people would love to garden and have a vegetable patch if only they knew how to simplify their lives and learn to be happy regardless of what they have or have not. I grew up with gardens and vegetable patches. My grandparents always had a vegetable patch. The year he stopped is the year I knew he wasn't far from leaving us himself. I grew up in the society of consumerism but I did manage to hold onto some of my roots. I wish they were stronger, but better than what I see with many people.
@@MCRnursery
Much truth in what you say.
Nevertheless, one should not blindly and apathetically take their values from 'society', especially when social constructs are being replaced by all sorts of subversive and destructive intents.
This is why America values individual freedoms, so that we may all seek values that lead to greater happiness.
It is poor parenting to allow children to be patsys of popular culture.
Thanks for the great information.
Lettuce is a steady income producer and sells well.
Great video!
I looked into this over sixty years ago and passionfruit came out on top. Strawberries are good bird food
Informative and helpful! Thank you ☺️
Sound reasoning. Great job
Awesome video 👍👍👍 Thanks for sharing it. Great lessons on strawberries, garlic and asparagus. We definitely need more of these videos on starting up a farm for financial sustenance. I always love watching your videos. You have such a calm nature of sharing words of wisdom. Much blessings on you and your family 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Asparagus takes three years to produce. In my experience 6-7 years to produce fully, so no. Garlic is a 300 day crop, so no. I’m not sure of your motivation but you are definitely wrong.
Strawberries... Literally the first crop that you REALLY need to find out if you can grow them in your region with success. The CSA local to me stopped growing them because the effort to profit ratio was impossibly negative.
Awesome video!
I definitely agree with the video although it depends on your area. Here in Canada I grow raspberries not strawberries as they are cheap from California. In fact kale is huge here.
You are absolutely right. You have to do things regionally. Make sure what you are going to do works well in your area and has a market. Blessings.
Good video!! Super nice guy..
Hi, I'm starting my 2nd year on my 2 acre market garden and still really have no idea what I'm doing. I appreciate your video to help narrow down what to grow as I have been trying to grow everything... and it's been mind boggling as it's just me.. :/ Thanks again!!
What state are you growing in?
@@reah5785 I'm in the foothills of Northern, CA.. Shasta County
I’m in my sixth year market gardening in Oklahoma. In my area salad greens, okra and tomatoes amount to 90 percent of my sales. Anything else is table filler.
@@WiLNorCaL Waving Hi from Eastern Shasta County
Planting garlic this fall, can’t wait till spring to add more strawberries and asparagus
Great video, thanks!
You are welcome. Blessings.
Rabbits love strawberries. Asparagus does well in central GA. Garlic grows well here.
I think in GA, I would grow pecans, with annual crops like garlic or shallots to provide a return while waiting for the trees. Once the trees are mature, forage and cattle can be raised when the nuts aren't falling. Pecans can be machine harvested. Much lower labor cost than vegetables and strawberries.
Very interesting. Also explains why there are so many small strawberry farms near me
Thank you so much for the video
Adner? Abner? I couldn't catch your name but I'd like to thank you. That was clear , logical, and very helpful.
I was a market farmer and I’d replace the asparagus for salad greens. Also, if you have a finite amount of land, garlic may not work out so well as it needs a five year rotation cycle. Unless you have more annual crops you’ll run into problems pretty quickly. Also gotta say, I did very well with beets.
I was thinking colored chard will practically do all year round even in early winter in my country but it’s not that populair I guess despite the fact it looks great when displayed
what do you mean a 5 year rotation cycle?
thanks!
@@hoidoei941 yeah, it’s gimmicky and while it looks good on the table, not the best veggie. I grow only a dark green, white stemmed variety with heavily crumpled leaves. It’s meaty, tender, tasty and vigorous.
@@gabrielness4306 garlic and other alliums suffer from fungal diseases, white rot and basal rot are notorious. Good to have a 3-4 year rotation and 5 years is best. That means if you want to grow an acre of garlic, you need to have at least three acres of land so you can stagger your rotation. Rotation is where you only plant a crop in one spot every few years, it’s helps the soil recover nutrient needs specific to each crop and prevent the buildup of disease and pests.
@@anthonymatthews3698 thanks a bunch. very informative
This is really lovely
For semi arid warm climates, my go to will be cantalupe. You can tie and hang them in a ventilated dry shack and they last up for the whole winter. For rotation, my choice is double cropping heirloom wheat/sesame seeds for the second year. Third year if the soil needs some rest, I go vetch/opium poppy, then start the cycle again.
Huh? They last all winter??? Do you have a link..? I need to learn how to preserve them
@@peachykeen7634 ua-cam.com/video/n_t7Cy1tMFs/v-deo.html
Not every kind of cantaloupe lasts that long thought. Its called “Kırkağaç” a turkish variety, its very popular in western Turkey and lasts until end of winter if treated this way.
Excellent!
Very informative. Thank you. New subscriber.
in my area, cabbage, lettuce, green onion, and cilantro are very popular. you can't get enough of them in stock.
बहुत बढ़िया 👍👍
Cool this was informative
Strawberries are a lot bigger now than when I was a kid. I feel confident that makes harvesting a lot easier.
Yeah, they're freaking huge. Not only that. They produce for a pretty long time, are easy to grow and manage. And are also fairly easy to integrate into a poly crop.
@@user-mc6dg6qe8l Thanks.
Wow, great advice. I live in Mexico, at north Sinaloa. I’ll try it.
The only area I have been in Mexico is Boquillas. Beautiful little town. Been there twice I believe. I loved it. Blessings to you.
Very helpful chad
South Texas here. We grow cactus, Mesquite trees and gophers
The other thing not mentioned is rotation. Strawberries will last 2-3 years, then you follow with 2 crops of garlic. After the garlic you can put in a winter crop of kale, cauli, broccoli or cabbage any kind of into-winter or over winter crop. The next year you can do roots (not advised to do roots after garlic). Then follow with another into winter/overwinter crop and you can plant strawberries again without much of the root fungus that affects strawberries
I recommend a cash crop for each month. Early season could be field greens aka baby lettuce. These 3 crops in this vid are excellent suggestions. If you have a shady damp corner on your land, set up a mushroom operation.
My brother-in-law was just telling me about doing this exact thing.
haha I experimented with edible mushrooms on a garage that was empty for a few months before being rented out, it grew nicely, but I wouldn't know how it qualified in terms of taste since it was grown out of used coffee grounds mixed with cardboard... do you have experience with mushrooms? is their nutritional value still good even if they feed off stuff like that? I hear coffee make them taste bitter
but in terms of growing in itself, yeah it grew without issues or little care 🤣
God bless you bro and have a fantastic day new subscriber here
I have 2 acres high and rocky. I have raised beds and a small orchard. I don't market grow, but I grow a big variety for the table.
Means
Thank you.💞👍
Fantastic !
Some great tips. You do almost nothing with asparagus, except harvest and put them to sleep in fall, chop down, and they are hardy…
Great topic. Strawberry is tough here, birds gobble them down like crazy. I plant them because I like Birds. Tomato is easy here. I like Greens almost as much as Rabbits. Herbs do good here.
I'm working to get Alpine Strawberry going using some Bird Nets. We shall see.
The dratted squirrels eat my strawberries and tomatoes. The little boogers come right up on my deck to get them. And the dog just greets them like buddies. Lol
Being in northern New Mexico, these crops are really doable for us. We already have wild asparagus growing along the ditch. We just want enough to eat and can plus share. Thanks for something so practical!
The great thing is these can grown in some more difficult climates.
The video features a conversation with the head farmer at the Eden Valley Institute of Wellness who provides insights on the top three crops that could bring in profits for a family farming on two acres of land. The three crops are strawberries, garlic, and asparagus. Strawberries are easy to grow and sell well, while garlic and asparagus require less maintenance and offer longer harvesting periods. Tomatoes are not recommended for beginners due to the complexity of growing them in a greenhouse. The video provides valuable insights for families looking to start their own farm and make a living off it.
Planting thimble berries, pot, asparagus, and fruit trees. Plus have honey bees and bumble bees. We have wild strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, loganberries, cherries, service berries, maples for syrup, currants, and gooseberries. We have wild leeks aka ramps also. Asparagus grows great with strawberries. We harvest chaga mushrooms too. All but the asparagus and pot was on property to begin with.