6. Home Bakery
- A home bakery can add value to several things that the farm produces.
- If you are a person who enjoys baking of any kind, and especially if you are good at marketing, there is a good possibility that you can make this a successful enterprise.
- It should be noted that a commercial kitchen (inspected) may cost $10,000 and up, but if you think about it, that is the cost of a good used car.
- Baked items can be in high demand, particularly if you sell to restaurants or to customers around the holidays. Think of a pumpkin roll around thanksgiving.,Homemade sugar cookies in the month of December, and breads, jelly, and cakes year round for any special occasion.
- A bakery has the advantage of allowing you to make several things from a single product. for example, apples can be made into pies, pie filling, cakes, applesauce, apple butter, apple turnovers, jelly etc...
- Children & other family members can assist you in this area.
- A home bakery can assist you in the area of homeschooling your children; they can assist them in math because they can learn to measure, multiply, add, subtract, divide. It helps in reading (the recipes)
7. Band Saw Mill
- People with band saws make a good amount of money doing custom milling for friends and neighbors than they do milling their own logs.
- Just a few logs can be turned into hundreds of boards.
- Storing the lumber in a rough made she is cheap and it adds value as the boards are air-drying.
8. U-Pick (Small fruits - Strawberries, Black berries, Raspberries, Blueberries, Seedless table grapes) I would add to this pumpkins in the fall time.
- Because shipping & handling can destroy these tender fruits, highly perishable fruits can command a premium price.
- Adding fruit & nuts tress can round out this enterprise nicely. (apples, pear, peaches, plum, black walnuts)
- Offer multiple types of fruit since the harvest window is pretty narrow, this will allow you to spread the harvest throughout the season.
- People are willing to pay high prices for quality fruit.
- U-pick enterprises have the advantage of creating a-day-at-the-farm country experience and recreation to the food.
*** This was some advice I obtained from the book
You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Start & Succeed in a Farming Enterprise
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written by Joel Salatin; plus I added my two-cents worth!
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