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1KHO 169: The Entrepreneurial Farmer: Skills Employers Seek and Growing Sustainable Futures | Michael Kilpatrick, Growing Farmers

The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast

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How to Start Small and Make Money

You can grow two dozen herbs on your patio and planters, turn them in the sabs or sell them to your local farmers market. I think the biggest paradigm shift that we struggle with getting existing farmers to understand is look, you can make way more money than a lot of farmers on 100 acres are doing. And it's high value crops. So let's say we grow an acre of corn,you're gonna get 200 bushels, you're gonna get $5 a bushel. That's $1,000. You're gonna pay out about four to $600 in expenses. It's unlimited.

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