Posted by Tom in TN on January 25, 2009 at 19:31:12 from (4.152.180.222):
In Reply to: What to Do? posted by GEJD60 on January 25, 2009 at 17:24:10:
GEJD60,
I live in Middle Tennessee about 40 miles south of Nashville. Around here, about the only small farmers that are making any money are doing it through offering services rather than commodities. We have a bunch of farms that board and/or train horses. We have a couple of pick-ur-own blueberry farms that do well. There are a couple of pick-ur-own pumpkin patches. There are a couple of corn mazes, etc. All of these farms capitalize on agri-tourism.
I don't know anything about where you are located, but if there is anything that you can do to draw people to your farm and then extract their money from them while they're there, I think you'll make much more money than you will farming it just for commodities.
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