Small specialty crop growers are finding that selling value-added food products can bring larger profits and stretch their income beyond the harvest season. Whether it’s jams and jellies to sell at the farmers market or exotic specialty foods for grocers, if you can imagine it, they will buy it! For example, vinegar, that cooking staple, […]
Earn Extra Cash Growing Trees in Your Backyard
June 27, 2019 by
Starting a backyard tree nursery, or tree farming, can be a great way for gardeners to turn their green thumbs into cash. It’s also a good way to ‘bootstrap’ a few hundred dollars into a steady income from tree sales. Because the hours are flexible, growing trees is also an ideal part-time business for […]
Rent-A-Tree
May 7, 2019 by
The rent-a-tree concept has become popular among growers of any crop that can be picked by customers, such as tree fruit, or nuts. Here’s how it works: A grower with an orchard of fruit or nut trees wants to sell his crop before the harvest. A customer also wants to own a future crop, while […]
