Re:Supply chain resilience is a requirement for agritech har...
by cmrdporcupine on Tuesday August 30, 2022 @05:41PM
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Except for market garden operations, which can produce a decent quantity of garden vegetables out of an acre or two. You could probably get $20k, $30k.
But labour costs and capital costs are very high. It's not a really profitable operation. Labour of love really.
Most organic market garden type places are only a couple acres.
2.5 of premium wine grapes with on-site winery could also be profitable except around here and in most places regulations explicitly forbid wineries that have acreage that small. Around here it's a 5 acre minimum and then most townships have much more stringent regulations on top of that yet.
In general anything "value added" (jams, wines, bread, butchered/prepared meat, whatever) can be used to turn a a pure small "farm" into a more profitable operation. But again, costs.
(I have a 6 acre property, with about a 3/4 acre of grapes for my own use).
But labour costs and capital costs are very high. It's not a really profitable operation. Labour of love really.
Most organic market garden type places are only a couple acres.
2.5 of premium wine grapes with on-site winery could also be profitable except around here and in most places regulations explicitly forbid wineries that have acreage that small. Around here it's a 5 acre minimum and then most townships have much more stringent regulations on top of that yet.
In general anything "value added" (jams, wines, bread, butchered/prepared meat, whatever) can be used to turn a a pure small "farm" into a more profitable operation. But again, costs.
(I have a 6 acre property, with about a 3/4 acre of grapes for my own use).