How to live off 30 acres ?

Then if you have at least a BS degree and a full time job, that helps.

Finally, a family member dies and leaves you the 30 acres free and clear.

That ought to about do it.

Gene

PS. and dont say that I dont know what I am talking about. BTDT

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My cousin works many hours a day during the season, which is from about February until mid-November. He heats the greenhouses with a wood fired boiler when they need to be heated, and has to use lots of lights in the Fall when the days get short. He does almost all of the packing, but I don't think he transports it any more. Most of his accounts are supermarket chains and he has said he can sell every tomato he can produce. They are super high quality, and sell for high prices.

It took my cousin some time and a bunch of money to build up his greenhouse business and make a success of it. He always worries about disease and has to use chemicals to prevent insect and disease infestation. Every so often, he gets visited by law enforcement, since people think he is growing marijuana. He lets the cops look around, but only asks that they be tobacco-free, since some diseases that can cause trouble for tomatoes are or can be carried by tobacco.

I don't know if growing tomatoes would work as well elsewhere, but my cousin found this niche market for the extremely high quality product and has done well enough with it to keep doing it all these years. But the keys are finding a product in fairly short supply and in high demand, and that will sell at a fairly high price. And of course BE LEGAL! Good luck.

So. You have to run for mayor.

James

P.S. Google JOEL SALITIAN this is the model I follow and it seams to work. oh yeah i live on 20 acres.

" How To Make
$100,000 farming 25 acres"

by Booker T. Whatley

Someone lent me a copy.

Dunno, open a cat house and use 29 acres for parking? :>)

Allan

Gene

The property taxes alone would bleed you dry.

It's a shame, but that's the truth of it.

• Hobby farm

If you can sell it for $3 million, then do so, invest the money and live off the interest.

If you can grow garlic and have a good market for it, then do so and I think you'll have a good income.

You could plant a big garden and can and freeze your produce, raise a few chickens, hogs and fat cattle. You'll eat pretty well but you won`t have much of any money to spend.

You could maybe put it in CRP and pocket around $2 thousand dollars before taxes

Or you could grow 30 acres of corn, wheat, beans or hay, but you are just as apt to lose money as you are to make money.