Posted by wisbaker on January 11, 2012 at 16:48:47 from (207.118.180.111):
In Reply to: Small Scale Ag. posted by Christos on January 11, 2012 at 13:56:14:
Check for work from Booker T Whatley of The Tuskegee institute, he had done some research about small scale labor intensive agriculture being an economically viable alternative for earning a living. I did a term paper during my senior year of college proposing to take some of my parent's farm small scale. About the time I graduated college a young man about my age took over a 10 acre field from his family's place and did sweet corn and pumpkins, later adding strawberries, A friend of a friend knew him and claimed they were earning more on the 10 acres than the rest of the 80 I've been out of college for 20 plus years I went buy this place 4-5 years ago it has grown to quite an operation, it now has fruit trees, green houses and a farmer's market barn they sell plants in the spring and hay and straw by the bale and bagged feed to folks with horses. Also contact local colleges and schools some have eat local programs and are willing to buy locally grown produce to use in their food service operations.
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