PART-TIME SMALL FARM? Is it possible?
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Curious about the possibility of running a part-time small farm? Join Curtis Stone in this video as he talks about the considerations of managing a small farm on a part-time basis. Discover valuable insights and practical tips on time management, crop selection, efficient practices, and resource utilization that can help you strike a balance between your farm and other commitments.
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About Curtis Stone:
Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.
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Can u maybe make a vid on sellibg to grocery stores, perhaps elaborate on the process behind barcoding your lables.
Love the videos. Cheers.
Amazing as always! You have inspired this 16yo teenager to start his own farm and to do something more with his time, thank you so much.
Hey Scottie, how'd it go? how was the results and what did you learn or were able to do with it.
How did it go
C'mon scottie, tell us how it went.
Curtis you were a huge part of my inspiration! I started my farm legit this year(Heritage Creek Farm on FB). Read your book and JM's book. I work a full time state job and a part time job at a fine resturant. I sell my produce to resturants and to the people at my jobs. I also do a farm stand on a busy road on sundays. I'm totally crushing it man!! Best thing for the part time farmer that helped me alot this year was switching most of my beds to by rotation so all i had to do was pick the fruit. Second i double downed on sprouts and mushrooms(oysters 30 day crop high value). Everything is just great! If i can run this farm on 25 hrs a week and still work 60-70 hrs at real jobs i think anyone can do it. Thank you so much for all your videos. They've helped me to get to this point and will help me grow my business into the lifestyle i've always wanted!
i’m on the same boat rn ! full time state job, part serving job, part time farmer/grower
I am part time too with my garden and worm farm. My day job is real demanding so it is good to see guys like this. Thanks for sharing!
Scot, good to see your hard work is making you a success. Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
These former student/protege interviews are great, thank you Curtis.
Scott, you grew a beard buddy! You and Curtis continue to serve as an inspiration to me.
Great video Curtis, love the videos showing people starting out and the struggles, successes and failures they make in those first couple seasons. It make great info and data for those wanting to do it.
This video gave me a real in depth look at starting a micro farm business. Great video!
Curtis love your straight forward realistic look at the dream of becoming a grower and business owner. Great content. Just ordered some of your books. Keep up the great work and thank you .
Super informative and inspiring! Thank you Scott and Curtis. You show how to make it work. I wish you nothing but success for your hard work and fine-tuning your businesses! Thanks for sharing your knowledge so that i can do the same.
Im in the process of getting some vids of my farm here in NY up on utube. Couldn't have done this without curtis' book and videos. Thank you curtis for proving to me time and again that you can do this!
Very interesting video! Thanks for taking the time and good luck with your business, Scott!
Dear Curtis: Thank you for sharing your experience with us, (myself in particular ;) ). As a retired engineer with the goal of developing a small farm similar to yours I have found your vlog invaluable. Kind regards, Gary
Scott...Washing machines are FREE on Craigslist. I did it in an hour or two cruising the free page. Imagine all the hours you spend hand cranking.
Great to see local grocery stores support local farmers. Keep up the good work.
I admire your approach. I did some of this with a full time job. May your business thrive. God bless.
I loved the content. Just recently decided I want this for my life. My wife and I are making our plan and going to work it. Gonna start part time. This video was very informative. Thanks. And great job.
You guys serve as an inspiration...Flying to Canada from India to start a Organic farm in BC this year. Looking forward for your workshop.
Love Curtis. Always realistic and down to earth about farming.
Great vid. Thanks for sharing his experience.
Replacing Earthbound! That is HUGE! Awesome stuff.
Great info, Planning my 2018 garden.
howd it go?
I'm only like 2 minutes in, and this is already great! Thanks, guys.
I enjoy doing a garden and sharing as much as I can with other people. God has been so good to me. Thanks for sharing the videos. I endured several difficulty’s. I learned not to plant cabbage next to my corn. This created a worm fest on my corn. I managed to work through it and it looks like I’m still gonna have nice ears of corn.
Thanks Curtis fir doing that vid. I've been watching his Facebook, and really wanted to see how Scott was doing and what he changed this year. Surprised Scott didn't bring up his seeding machine/board thing he created for seeding trays. Seemed to work well by the vid he did on it. Look forward to another update on him next year. Do you have any other people that took your courses and started up that you can interview? Interested in people on years 1-3.
Great video! Thanks guys! As a single parent of two (I have them full time), I have a job, and I am starting my farm in Nashville, this was worth the watch!
Get the kids to work, ahem, "volunteer" in the farm! I started working in the backyard when I was just a toddler go figure, over 30 years later the itch to have my own land has never left me! There is a great picture of me at about 3 years old with a little wheelbarrow FULL of feijoas, still one of my favorite fruits of all time :)
This is a very encouraging video! Scott's experience with marketing parallels yours and points to a bright future. Marketing has to be job 1. Both you and Scott started your "alternative methods farms" by following others in the movement and approached "alternative markets". Great in some sense but they were on the margins, competitive and were very limited and labor intensive. Now, you have mainstreamed your marketing and go to sell food where people go to buy food. Simple enough!
Great advance in productivity but also in that THE MAINSTREAM CONSUMER is now getting more and will demand more going forward! No need to buy 8 day old lettuce from California. Great job!
Thouroughly enjoy these informative videos!
Great Video Boys!
I love that he found his nich and a slowly gaining succses. I too am not going to be selling Micros to stores. I Got in with them but the Labor cost vs reward just isn't worth my time or effort.
This is awsome info for me. Great job !
awesome piece of information guys thanks :)
Love this brotha keep crushing it
Hello again thanks for info and this is a great channel, may I know if you have videos on the washing paricularly using the bubbler and screens etc.
Scott's officially my idol 🙌🏻
A axle, two large bike rims and a lever to control Z,Y axis on the greens harvester might be a win, with that you could add a deflection- plate to stop greens flying out and carry more before having to empty into a bin.
That would make two 50ft passes with improved yield instead of two swishy-swashy 75-100ft passes. You probably have the materials on hand to mock up a prototype with just the Z axis in an hour.
Very inspirational.
Hey Curtis, I don't know if you've done a video on Packaging, equipment, sourcing & bar code information, but just to suggest ,would be of great help in this area ? Thank you for your work & advise on here, keep up the good job ! - Ron -
I'm here in Anacortes WA so similar weather but maybe a little dryer, maybe you could form a co-op to buy things like a paper planter, it's not something you use every day so if you could share it between maybe 4 farms, same with other expensive equip like the BCS
Love the beard Scott! Definitely keep growing that next year! Lol
Thanks for the video. Regarding sales to grocery stores: I'm in Nova Scotia, and the grocery stores here are Sobeys, Loblaws, and WalMart. Are you guys selling through this type of supermarket, or through independent stores?
I hear ya buddy. I work 40 hours a week as a custodian 5am-1:30 and then I hit the farm in the evening(after lots of coffee). I have recently ventured into the farmers markets, and will see what kind of deals I can make will the dining industry as I hit my peak harvests.
Try fine dining restaurants, they have the $$ and the clients who enjoy "organic" this and that :) Also try vegetarian or vegan establishments!
How'd it go ?
Hi Curtis, I was wondering what your process is whe attempting to get into a grocery store, and large vs small stores?
Another fascinating video, cheers Curtis. I'm getting closer to starting to farm and am about to go and look at a second hand BCS tractor for sale. I always thought this would be a almost essential bit of kit to get started but it seems like Scott is saying maybe not. I can see how it would be possible to form beds with some borrowed machinery to start off with and then not really need it after that. But what about growing green manures and using the flail mower. Isn't it really useful for that? It would be a shame to spend £4000 on a piece of kit thats not that important. I also wondered, did I miss a reference to Scott's set up in terms of whether he has bought the land or is renting. What are his monthly outgoings on rent repayments? And while I'm here does anyone know of anyone growing sunflowers commercially for cut flowers. Cheers
Great stuff Curtis and Scott! How is the margin on the supermarket sales?
It looks beautiful there. I will visit bc
Killing it Scott. You're gonna thank yourself when you get a washer for spinning. Buy a used one one the cheap with linen bags. Throw in and walk away.
10:24 Oh yea, I know that one.
Salatin was right, growing the stuff is the easy part.
nice interview
It would be interesting to see some In Focus videos with some of your restaurant customers.
Curtis, can you talk about the bar codes? Thanks!
Very informative.
You guys are so inspiring. I'm a new farmer working 1/50th of an acre.
You're ahead of me. I'm literally on 1/100 of an acre for growing space, but it's amazing what you can get from small spaces. Best of luck to you!
I have a 20 foot by 30 foot garden
Hey Curtis. Have you had any increased weed pressure after switching to transplanter? Do you think they're better than holed fabric?
Instead of a paper pot translate which are quite expensive. you do get hand transpanters which you don't have to bend down, you jab it in the ground, it has a lever to open the hole, I'm sure you have seen them and is much quicker than doing it with a trowel and is a lot cheaper than a paper pot transplanter.
I think the purpose of the paper pot is to start the seeds off bed so when your bed is done you pop in plants that are ready to grow so probably savings a couple weeks and getting more turns on the bed.
Barcodes ... doh, yeah that's a must for sure ... What's the best tool to generate them?
How do u package the salads and stuff like were do u buy them or do u make em
I use the chain tranplant but use a hoe to make the row works ok for now till i get more money, something to think about.
Exactly what i want to do :)
Curtis!!! We need an update please :-)
What stores is his product at? I'm out there wouldn't mind grabbing some to support him.
With those labels with the bar codes, how do you know if the store will be able to use the bar codes in your homemade labels? Does the store require a bar code that works with their computers or will any bar code on a label work?
How do you get hooked up with selling to grocery stores? Are they the big box stores? Or local family owned?
I have a question maybe you have already answered in another video. but is it better to just start growing then find your customer base or find customers and try and meet theyr needs after the fact? this is my absolute passion to make this a living. I rack my brain every night and dream about farming for a living. I have to make this work
Hi Curtis how about a video on how you get a bar code for your products?
I would also like to learn that
Would also very much like to hear more about the barcoding for grocery sales!
How did you figure it out?
WhatchaPell23 I would as well!
18deadmonkeys that was a very helpful link! Thanks for sharing! 👍
One thing I've never understand, wouldn't you have to water low tunnels way more often since you do't let rain reach it?
is his walk in cooler just sealed with caulking? He doesn't have any foam panels or anything? wood walls is fine?
YO!! Was that Brock Berrigan for your outro song?!
Excellent video. Thanks from Brasil.
What is the name of the tool showed at 11:25?
Quick cut greens harvester. Overpriced IMHO. But it looks like a wonderful tool
Hate to ask this question but as someone who is researching start up...what is the profit for second year?
Can I ask how much you sell the mix to the markets for?
Were there any follow-ups to this??
How does one get a bar code?
do you could made a video about tools ?
What about bugs ? I just planted cherry trees. I am in Washington state. In a couple of months my cherry tree leaves where eaten. What do you do to prevent bugs? Do I need to cover the tree?
I swear the universe is sending me all the information I need to be a successful farmer.
Dope Beat
Does Scott have a Patreon link?
It seems possible. It's a lot of job but possible. I grow things on 2 locations and that's kind of hard. Also got a full time job.
Since you are selling directly to supermarkets; are you selling to them wholesale?
Dude - get an old washer line it a screen or a small washer that RV'ers use???
I grow a quarter acre garden currently with 4-6 man hours per week. Of course I dont sell much. I sold 150 watermelons last year to an asian market then ate, preserved, froze and shared the rest.
very cool!
How much did you get for the 150?
link to old video???????
Why not use soil blocks instead of paper pots?
I can't wait to get a mini farm up a running
Matthew Conway well that was rude
Harley Explores
You read into it wrong i think. He is saying that's "good" that you can't wait to start and then "don't " to get on it.
Just curious to your thought, but could this type of farming be scaled up?...5, 10 acres?
Oh yes. There are many farms out there doing it.
What does gardens insurance run annually?
+Alex Muolo $500.
Curtis, have you considered making a video on packaging? Where to get it, how to label, etc?
+Machinist 72 no. That's all in my course. Plus, anytime I post about that, people go crazy righteous about food safe.
About how much is he grossing per year?
Stick to that budget, damn right!
Do you barcode your supermarket items Curtis?
No. I might eventually.
Is it me or does the lettuce and other greens seem like it is very labor intensive? I guess you make more $$ selling more product that grows faster, vs maybe a cucumber, or something, but gosh...EDIT - didn't realize he had that cool little harvester! Although, I might want to mount it on something with wheels so you don't have to hunch over while walking along the beds?
If you work full time, when do you deliver your produce to stores etc., ?
I took a paycut, quit my old job and got a job at a golf course that my friends run so I can set my own hours/they work around my deliveries.
So Monday + Friday mornings, always before 9
Oh I see, I was wondering how you managed to deliver during 'working hours' - thank you.
I'm TRYING to garden here in georgia but it's such a problem with the deer and rabbits and so so so many bugs. The soil is nothing but clay so it's expensive to buy all the good garden soil.
put down alot of compost and mulch and. grow sunflower and other stuf to open up the clay
There are easy solutions for all your problems: fencing, insect netting, compost, peat, blood meal... but if you dont have any experience I recommed you to first go work/help at some succesful farm closeby.
76monikaW Goregeous state but your summers are brutal! Lol...stay cool.
being a "part time" farmer means you simply have 3 full time jobs.
25k per 8th an acre??!! 😱
Cannabis is the best crop per acre. Farms can make over 250k per 1/8 acre, after taxes. And that is every 3-6 months.
Growing anything else is just a waste of time now.
Constable Dodo yeah except 1. Pot isn’t legal everywhere 2. Pot is dangerous to grow because of the scum bags trying to steal your high value crop. And most importantly 3. You can’t eat your pot. Yeah you can make edibles lol but you can’t sustain life by eating your pot
Constable Dodo Yeah, food sucks. Let’s all just eat weed all day.
@@RossLambert801 You can't eat nothing but lettuce all day either. These are cash crops, not subsistence gardens.
Theft is a thing. Cattle rustling used to be a thing - still is. By the logic that scumbags might take your stuff it if's high value - well I guess we should all just go be poor then!
Or get dogs, security systems, and be prepared to defend your livelyhood.
Hello great video, very informative. I was just wondering what type of mix does he sell at the grocery store?
That guy look like Rhett's from Good Mythical Morning's long lost son.
How much per week is made for the 30+ hours worked?
the only sensible question on this whole thread!!
+$500/week from the farm and I get a separate paycheck from my other job.
But the customers I have will take more next year when I can be better planned and execute, without acquiring any new customers or changing my products I could easily be at $1000/week in sales next season. The plan is to transition to full time ASAP.
Scott Hebert
16-17$ an hour? That doesn't even seem to be worth it?
Even at $1000 a week seems rough for all that labour and expenses, no?
things i could just imagine,
1. To do/learn the thing you love(or interested in)
2. Time to be at home/work at home (be with kids/wife/family)
3. Room for growth (business wise/knowledge wise, experience)
4. Being in touch with nature all day (works for some people)
5. Get to be around the people with same interest
6. Good for the back/muscles. Innovative farming/agriculture just keeps more advance as years go by makes the workload easier eventually. (he also said its not hard physical work, just once a year)
i could go on.... but in the end its what you do with your life matters right?
id take 16-17$ an hour doing this rather than doing a dead end (possible toxic environment) job.
When is the best month to start farming?
One year before.
One year before? I meant what season what month? Or do you mean it’s too late
It doesn't really matter.
Thank you. Stay strong!