What kind of farming could be done on 6 acres that should yield profits within 1-3yrs and low start up cost?

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what kind of farming could be done on 6 acres that should yield profits within 1-3yrs and low start up cost?

Answer 1

Six acres may not sound like much land, but is very large if devoted to specialty crops such as organic vegetables, or raising strawberries, or mushrooms etc. Christmas trees will give you a good profit, but will take about six years to start making money. Putting the land into two or three different uses would be a good idea. Putting 1/3 into strawberries, 1/3 in vegetables, and 1/3 devoted to Christmas trees would spread out your labor requirements as well as your income and expenses. If part of your land is too steep for crops, you could devote a couple of acres to raising free range chickens for selling eggs. Just a few suggestions. Good Luck.

Answer 2

You need to tell us where you are and your soil type. Having said that 6 acres is not a lot, so you are going to need a high value crop. I would be thinking along the lines of soft fruits, herbs and exotic vegetables, asparagus, artichokes etc.

Answer 3

You have not mention about your where abouts?

What kind of soil you have?

Are you neat any big or medium size city?

You have not mentioned if you have water available?

Without these data it is difficult to answer your question, to your (or even my) satisfaction.

Add these and more details in 'edit' of your question and I will reply to it.

Answer 4

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Mango Tree, Grapes Farm, Guava Fruit, Pappaya, Drum Stick, Curry Leaves, Bitter Guard,Snake Guard, Guard, Pumpkin, Water Melon, Banana, Coconut, Tamarind, Peas etc etc etc.

But it depends upon WATER-SOIL-CLIMATE of your 6 Acres Land.

Where you are sitting with 6 Acrs land. Do not fall on Builders.

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Answer 5

veggies is your best choice.

Answer 6

If you live on an area without frost. Put a papaya plantation or passion fruit. Both give you crops on the second year.

Answer 7

Industrial hemp growing.

While this is a high profit crop now, as more growing permits are created, the profit margin will disappear.

Walnuts are a longer term option... several other nuts follow close. In general consider the whole area of permaculture or really excellent flowers.

Answer 8

Vineyards.  Growing varietals for neighboring health food stores.

Answer 9

A WINERY!

Answer 10

Raising bees, selling honey, pollen and Pollinating services to orchards and vegetable and nut growers.

Answer 11

Run a small diverse farm that grows a wide variety of produce (vegetables, herbs and fruit) and pastured chickens all for direct sale to the customer via farmers markets, CSA and sales off the farm at a farm stand.

You will need tillage equipment, On my farm we use BCS 2 wheeled tractors for tilling, laying mulch, mowing, plowing. You will also need harvesting equipment such a plastic lugs, knives, refrigeration, clean water for washing.

if you do poultry you will need housing, fencing and feed plus a freezer to put the meat in and refrigeration if you do laying hens.

I do season extension so I can sell almost year round and it costs about $650 per 100' linear feet of hoop housing (we make our own, commercial built will run about 4x more).

To make this work you have to live near an educated population center with a good farmers market and you have to sell direct as you likely cannot grow enough to make wholesaling worthwhile.

Most lucrative crops for me are strawberries, raspberries, pastured chicken, tomatoes, peppers, arugula, heirloom lettuce, asparagus, basil, garlic, potatoes.

Realize it takes about 3 to 6 years to get any good at commercial growing and about the same amount of time to learn the ropes of marketing and develop a customer base (unless you are coming into this from a marketing career, than far less time spent learning how to sell what you sow).

Realize that in order to make this work you will be working at least 10 hours a day 7 days a week 6 months a year. farming is very hard work for very little pay-few get rich from farming even those of us who can gross $10K per acre.

But you will eat like a king and get good exercise.

Answer 12

celery CHIVESand parsley

Answer 13

Almost any organic herbs, salad greens, etc. if you live near a city with lots of restaurants.  Low start costs, but very labor intensive.  The best thing to do is identify a crop that is missing or desired in your area and fill the niche.

Answer 14

I'd say build a chicken coop and raise chickens,sell their eggs.Also you should grow cucumbers.Cucumbers grow fast and produce tons of produce.Last year...3 of my cucmbers plants produced over 160 cucumbers(might of been because I used horse manure and other fertilizers).Thats about 50 cucumbers per plant.I had so many cucumbers that I had to give some away to prevent them from being spoiled! Growing Indian and sweet corn is also helpful and you should plant pumkins to sell around halloween.

Answer 15

Grow houses !!

These raise a lot of money - especially if you can get the land zoned for growing these.