6 Ways The Farm Makes Money in 2021 | 100 Days of Farming (Day 6)
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Thanks for stopping by the Brimwood Farm channel. We're a teeny urban smallholding trying to grow, garden and keep livestock on a tiny residential garden. Can you be self-sufficient and make money from an urban homestead? We're on a mission to find out. - Jak na to + styl
Here in Belgium we go to a local farm which has a little shop . It has all things from their own farm. Chickens, eggs, milk, ice cream, and home made products. Also they sell produce from local farms also.
We want to do that eventually too! Ultimately dream is to have a zero-waste shop on site.
I think they are fantastic ideas especially chickens while camping,I would be there staying for a relax when it happens,Luv from 🇬🇧
Thanks Jackie :)
A good diverse range of options. I'll come camping!
We'll do a full tour!
Sounds like you've plenty of interesting plans for the year ahead Geoff. Good luck with it all and I look forward to seeing the progress
Thanks :)
I love the camping idea because your field is so big, social distancing would be so easy and such a selling point. I also like that the field is away from the aviaries and animals. With unemployment so high, people are hungry. I worry about your letting people see here are my animals and here's my security in your farm experience days. I would really re-think your farm experience plan. I know most people would do the right thing in normal times, but these are not normal times. Maybe put the visit and picnic in the camping field away from your main facilities as well. But be wise in who gets to know all the ins and outs of your farm. ... But definitely move forward in the camping and other four plans. ❤🌅🌵😷
That's a very good point about security and the experiences!
The camping is deal as you mentioned because its away from everything else and would be easy to put plots either end of the field for social distancing measures too.
@@BrimwoodFarm , I'm not brilliant nor paranoid in this matter.... I've seen other homesteaders say that security is the reason they don't invite outsiders onto their farms... but you do you.... follow your heart after you examine both sides. 💖🌞🌵😷
Love the idea for experience day.
This is great 😊
Honey and wax might be an idea. Charcoal might also be good idea.
Great ideas, love the idea of the experience days 👍🏼
OMG i absolutely love the camping + experience day idea - such a fab thing to kick off this summer for sure. Will keep an eye out on your website. Wish you all the best.
Thanks Anita!
Great ideas Geoff - hoping to get my act together andc get our CZcams channel started, now I've been launched into farming full time. Looking forward to sharing the journey this year! Jackie
Yes! Please do, would love to watch your progress.
That was a really insightful video Geoff. I look forward to seeing your enterprises go from strength to strength. Take care. Mags
Thanks Mags!
Good luck, sounds like you have really thought ths through. A small warning though my neighbours and I used to run honesty boxes, but in the last 18 months we have had so many thefts we have had to add security cameras.
It's sad, isn't it, that we have to do that? I already have a camera ready to go because there's a few people in this world that like to ruin it for everyone. :(
@@BrimwoodFarm very sad. Im too cold this month to let it worry me. I pity people who do that kind of thing, after all if they need help or food that much most of us would trade a bit of help for goods.
I know. Honestly, if someone is desperate enough to take food ... maybe I'll turn a blind eye. But its the cash other people have paid that bothers me. Like all those customers think they've supported you and then some thief comes and takes it.
Have you seen the posts on the internet about "Rent-a-goat"? You pay for a goat to come and clear some land/your garden for £10/hour! Might be a good earner if you want to take that kind of route.
I have seen that recently. Im not entirely sure under livestock regs whether its actually legal though due to movement laws!
@@BrimwoodFarm oh...oops! Never mind then, they'll just have to be Brimwood Farm's maintenance team instead!
@@claygeorge97 there might be a way around it. You can move animals 10km from your CPH without registering a movement BUT its stuff like this that often makes officials clamp down. Maybe people can come here and walk them undead 🤣
Love watching your videos. We would like to have a farm ourselves one day and it's nice to see how people are earning an income from their farm.
Yeah, I know many people have homesteads purely for a way of life and the work on the side. But we want to try and make our farm our business! We'll see how it goes. :)
Great idea with camping but you would need wast drains and hopefully you already have water and wast pipes in the land as cost good few thousand to get it connected. 👍
Yeah, we have no mains yet. We'll be offering wild camping spots initially ... no facilities other than a compost loo and a pitch!
Will hafto see about a new tent in time looking forward to the future 👍
Great video! If 2020 taught us anything it's that we shouldn't put all of our eggs in one basket. I'm so glad that you've said camping as an option; you might find that there's overlap on the camping and experience days - you could definitely market it as an off grid retreat! I'm still in the early stages of my suburban homestead, as you know, but I've reached a stage where I can now buy materials for garden projects from the profit of selling wax wraps (woohoo!) This year I'd like to get into selling lavender and quail hatching eggs. Building up slowly! 💚
I'm excited by your journey - so please your wax wraps are taking off!
Camping will have to be pretty off-grid as we don't have any utilities to offer. Ha!
My family are based in Suffolk and I’d be keen to visit if you start doing open days etc 🙂
So many good ideas well done, fingers crossed for the frog spawn!
Thanks! And yes, I'm exited for frog spawn :D
New sub, loving it! Have you considered selling microgreens to bring in extra cash too given you have the grow lights etc.
Yes, I have considered it and even done some preliminary growing and packaging. BUT food rules and regs are once again a barrier as environmental health want dedicated grow rooms.
@@BrimwoodFarm Do you have a creek/stream running on your land?
Also would love too see more on Saad and the Falcon.
I'm a wheelchair user but really want to try farming. have started saving to buy land, hopefully will have something in a few years. Really want to try microgreens, hydroponics and have a Deer farm.
Learning a lot from you.
Sadly we don't. When it's super wet our ditches fill and run into the small river just off our land.
Good luck with the farming! You could definitely do micro greens and a market garden with raised beds if you're unable to get to ground level due to the wheelchair. And deer are pretty hands off so another good choice!
The planning permitted development rights you were referring to are set out in Schedule 2, Part 4 class B of the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development) (England) Order 2015 (as amended). It allows the use of any land for any purpose for up to 28 days in a year and the erection of a temporary structure for such purposes. It’s subject to the conditions set out in the order, one of which is that the use cannot be as a caravan site. The rights should allow for camping / bell tents etc.
Thank you ... knew it was something like that. And I think you can have up to 4 tents at a time.
Just one thing you can get the right to live on the land and also have the attitude that you're not going to make a profit, then you will defiantly not make a profit. If you write a good business plan then you can get the right to live on the land for 3 years maybe only in a caravan or cabin and only have to make a profit from one year out of three years then you can build your own home on the land after just one year's profit out of the three. I have done it and know many others that have also
Glad to hear you've done it and others have managed it too. At the moment I'm too stressed to put that extra pressure on myself though!
I do fully expect to make profit within 3 years but I'm not one to jump in blind ... i'd prefer to suss out how the first season pans out first. :D
@@BrimwoodFarm If you make a profit before you move on the land then they will not let you move on the land. You said you have been farming animals and growing things for years..?
@@thesmallfarmerlife yeah, but for other people not my own. This is what I hate - they're basically asking people to jump in the deep end because if you want to grow the business slowly with some financial backing (having another job and living somewhere else, for example) they won't allow it.
We have an ag barn on site. We're looking at Class Q conversion or a total rebuild. The whole system is just an arse.
Love your Channel , i hope that you make a profit This year
Thank you! :D
Another great video. Am going to be selling our rare breed hatching eggs this year as well
Great! Good luck. What are you selling?
Got loads. sumatra hens,lakeveders. Have a wee look at my channel and u can see them all
Goat experience days! Cuddles with Humbug! Consider me there! You have so many good fundraising ideas. The smallholding dream for us is still very much that. We are currently trying to just save whatever we can. I love to craft and am trying to get some ideas together for an Etsy store. I'm hoping to earn a little extra from there and my own CZcams channel to put towards "the dream"
Definitely, you have to have a dream to work before and it's definitely achievable! :)
I would definitely love to come and stay over with you Geoff, we have a small campervan with our own facilities so if you want to ask any questions just let me know 😊 x
Thanks so much! Of the people I've talked to, most have said having a place for fresh water if possible and a place to dispose of toilet waste would be the two top things.
@@BrimwoodFarm definitely and the people who don't want all the bells and whistles of large sites are usually more sensitive to the environment so providing fire pits and fuel when conditions are right usually go down well too 👍
I've always wanted to do a market garden but the distribution side has always scared me. Love to see the progress, what about fruit tree nursery as a longer term investment?
I'm exactly the same, Jim. The selling aspect is VERY outside my comfort zone! I definitely want to do fruit trees for the longer term. Just waiting for our house to sell so we can make the purchase.
I know this isn't what you may want to do but could you make one acre available to sell for someone to build a house on? It would make you plenty of money to put into the farm and play with. Just a thought. :)
Sadly that's a no go as getting planning on agricultural land, esp solely for residential building is impossible.
Hi, with your hatching eggs - how do you eventually go about having them vaccinated? As I’ve been leaning towards POL hens but having them hatch would prob make them more friendly - but I’m then thinking - what are the chances we could end up with cockerels 🤣 we’ve just moved rural and have 1/2 acre - we are doing the draughty damp house at the moment while it’s cold. Thanks
It's true - there always seem to be a lot of cockerels hatch when you don't need/want them. I don't vaccinate; largely most chickens aren't vaccinated here in the UK due to batches normally coming in thousands of doses rather than just few. We don't tend to have a big issue with Mareks (vaccines that need to be given on day 1 of chicks' life) so most chickens you buy probably won't be vaccinated.
@@BrimwoodFarm ah , well I intend to build them a nice really big enclosure if that makes sense? , so they’ll be free range but nothing can get to them under or above I’m medically retired builder so have ideas so fantastic mr fox can’t tunnel under - or get over the top . Next door have ducks and chickens and we have sheep on three sides - deer out the front with the cows and more sheep! (Not ours 🤣) think my husband thinks I’m joking when I say I’m getting chickens - he’ll come round - as eggs are expensive 😀
@drprepper8229 sounds great! And yes - eggs are getting pricy
I love those ideas! You could (for the human kids) do a own a kid of your own day. You'll need goat kids, used to being handled and run about all day on a lead with a human in tow lol
You need dwarf kids in pyjamas too❤️❤️
Haha. That's a great idea! Should have little kids later this year too. :)
My brain, your farm we'll make a killing🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wrap it up with an experience day so the parents stay and watch their kids with kids. OMG I so want to do that. Me, 5 children with 6 kids goats in tow (yes one for me too) I'd be in heaven. I'm such a child myself