Re: Advice on another farm question...

Posted by John in Maryland on February 21, 2002 at 20:24:10 from (66.56.220.94):

In Reply to: Advice on another farm question... posted by Truck on February 21, 2002 at 19:42:19:

I guess you could get the carpentry shop to build a pen in one of the old barns and raise some laying hens to supply eggs for the kitchen. You wouldn't need many, just a dozen or so or however many you wanted. They are fairly easy to maintain, but would provide another opportunity for responsibility. Don't know anything about it, but possibly raising flowers in the green house to sell at mother's day etc.? I don't know if you can raise strawberries up there or not, but they take a fair amount of work, can be done on plastic or not, but I believe they take like 2 years of being planted before they produce, but could be wrong. I know you have to "renovate" my brother calls it, as he works on a vegetable farm, once every year you have to go through and pick all the old leaves and whatnot off the plants. Grapes possibly? Hillsides are ideal, they are a growing industry with potential if there is a market, wine grapes I mean. What about offering a service to paint older tractors for locals for free, if they provide the paint, decals etc.? It is a relatively quick turn around, seeing the results of hard work I mean. I imagine there are people that would do that, maybe not collectors necessarily, but farmers who wouldn't otherwise paint their tractors and equipment. Just some ideas, I'll let you know if I can think of anymore. Good luck, I think what you are doing is great.

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