Seven Ways To Garden And Get Paid By Justin Rhoner:

Seven ways to garden and get paid by Justin Rhoner:

I listened to a series of lectures hosted by Mother Earth news and this is on the topic of seven ways to get paid from a garden. I did not type up all the notes as I thought some of it might be specific to the business and didn’t want to hinder potential sales.

Garden income can pay bills or to finance some fun or quick path to retirement.

Review all 7 steps and see which one would be the first to apply to you.

1: Agriscaping:

This is a time where 51% of people live in cities and 49% live close to farms.
We are trending more urban and live closer to our neighbors.
Food coming from an average of 1500 miles away could such easy access to food could be disrupted.
Food grown 400 miles away is considered local food.
48 million people are trying to grow their food from home.
Each food packet of seeds says it needs full sun. We may not have access to full sun where we live.
There is dwindling professional support. Professions are retiring and they may not know how to grow food in urban areas.
Cities may not like the appearance of gardens in yards and may fine the growers.
Agriscaping: is where people plot out a plot of land of what plan/vegetable will grow well where. Custom fit to your yard.
If people lose their jobs their yards that are under Agriscaping usually improve.
If some does regular farming or landscaping and lose their job the management of their yard is degraded.
If want to grow vegetables and have someone sell it, check out web site utopianharvest.com.
A farmer makes 17% off the harvest of retail sales. An agriscape grower earns 25% of retail sale to sale excess harvest.
Growing microgreens indoors and can get 6 to 100 times more nutrients by eating sprouts and microgreens more than the mature fruit.
You integrate growing starts right into your landscape.
You can grow Fruits, vegetables, sprouts (indoors) eggs, chickens, fish, plant starts and rooted cuttings.
If you decided to grow a plant of goji berry plant (also known as Wolfberry. It sells for $24 a lb. You can then cut off starts and plant starts in other areas of the soil and grow the plants. A small start can cost $1. Five weeks later cost $5. Two months later cost can be $15 dollars.
You can grow product pets, chickens (Gini pigs create great manure) rabbits etc.

2: Tours:

Give tours of your house. Do multiple sessions for the different time of yr. as the yard is constantly changes. Charge $10.00
Schools find out and you sell tours and can earn several thousand a yr.

3: educating others:

Schools want to hire experts to share their knowledge.
Individuals want to learn how to grow food in their climate.
This company will educate, certify and support them to teach the system to other areas of the country.
(Melva’s idea, sell classes online or newsletters.

4: design it:

Design sustainable landscape and evaluate what grows where efficiently
At this company, they are taught
Rainwater harvesting capacities
Grey-water recycling potentials
Productivity potentials
Correctly identify and map microclimates
Identify where favored edibles grow best.
Explain the full Agriscaping Process
Sell a full Design Package or phase
Align projects with the utopian Harvest network for client productivity
Design Agriscaping Watering systems.
May charge a 1-acre property may cost $3500 for this kind of session.
Select locally productive plants for at least 5 traditional landscaping styles.
Different modes of landscape: French or French country; Hedges: Centerpieces; Fans; English cottage; southwest Garden elements;
Need to grow native edible plants