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greenstormSo if I did have to do work for cash but it didn't have to be completely consistent or necessarily work every time, what would I try?
I'd love to design landscapes for people that gave them food and pleasure, and that aligned with their tastes and energy flows and proclivities.
I'd like to put my hands in the dirt on someone else's farm doing low-thought activities like weeding. It would either have to be somewhere close or somewhere I went and stayed for a couple days at a time. Maybe also things like grape harvest or whatnot?
I quite enjoyed preserving for Julia's farm, back in the day, where I was given the surplus to make into saleable products for her farm. Same corollary as the above.
I intend to do a CSA, ideally centered around corn and pork and preserved food, this might look like charcuterie and a variety of pickles and cornmeal and lard and fresh pork. Maybe also preserves of various other kinds, or lean towards some premade canned meals? Maybe squash? I don't want to do a weekly CSA, I want it to be maybe seasonal or something like that. "High summer", "winter's coming", that sort of thing.
I want to do a mutual aid patreon/service which I don't intend to pay me but I intend it to effectively have my animals pay for themselves, or at least the small portion of them that goes into this. Ideally this would be at least 10% of production. I've wondered how many of my friends would subscribe to a patreon or which allowed them to nominate a name once a month or once a year or whatever, and that person would get some food support tailored to what they need, within my production capabilities.
It would be good to keep selling some pork, need to work out the costs for the new place. I'd really like to keep selling geese and ducks but they sure need a processor.
I would like to both sell and give away seeds, especially landrace and grex/biodiverse seeds for folks who don't want to do a cross themselves but want to do some selection and come up with their own variety for their own space. I would also like to work on some indoor/hydroponic/apartment varieties, like micro-mini tomatoes, and maybe mixes or grexes like that or even just seed production of those varieties.
Likewise I suspect I'll eventually get around to propagating nursery stock for sale.
I'd love to get involved in larger seed and breeding organizations, like farmfolkcityfolk or seeds of diversity. I like grooming, compiling, and analyzing information, and that I can do remotely.
I'd like to do some workshops where folks came to the farm and learned to kill, clean, butcher, and preserve a hog; then took the meat home.
I'd like to do height-of-harvest workshops around preserving in the fermenting/canning/drying realm where folks take their stuff home.
I'd like to spend a year or two helping with a small-scale slaughterhouse a day or two per week.
I wouldn't mind doing some sort of forestry non-production work, checking work or measuring work, in camps over the summer. I'm very curious about photogrammetry/lidar/etc processing and how much coding is involved. I love maps and figuring out what's there, not so into assembly-line map production.
Hm. What else?
I'd love to design landscapes for people that gave them food and pleasure, and that aligned with their tastes and energy flows and proclivities.
I'd like to put my hands in the dirt on someone else's farm doing low-thought activities like weeding. It would either have to be somewhere close or somewhere I went and stayed for a couple days at a time. Maybe also things like grape harvest or whatnot?
I quite enjoyed preserving for Julia's farm, back in the day, where I was given the surplus to make into saleable products for her farm. Same corollary as the above.
I intend to do a CSA, ideally centered around corn and pork and preserved food, this might look like charcuterie and a variety of pickles and cornmeal and lard and fresh pork. Maybe also preserves of various other kinds, or lean towards some premade canned meals? Maybe squash? I don't want to do a weekly CSA, I want it to be maybe seasonal or something like that. "High summer", "winter's coming", that sort of thing.
I want to do a mutual aid patreon/service which I don't intend to pay me but I intend it to effectively have my animals pay for themselves, or at least the small portion of them that goes into this. Ideally this would be at least 10% of production. I've wondered how many of my friends would subscribe to a patreon or which allowed them to nominate a name once a month or once a year or whatever, and that person would get some food support tailored to what they need, within my production capabilities.
It would be good to keep selling some pork, need to work out the costs for the new place. I'd really like to keep selling geese and ducks but they sure need a processor.
I would like to both sell and give away seeds, especially landrace and grex/biodiverse seeds for folks who don't want to do a cross themselves but want to do some selection and come up with their own variety for their own space. I would also like to work on some indoor/hydroponic/apartment varieties, like micro-mini tomatoes, and maybe mixes or grexes like that or even just seed production of those varieties.
Likewise I suspect I'll eventually get around to propagating nursery stock for sale.
I'd love to get involved in larger seed and breeding organizations, like farmfolkcityfolk or seeds of diversity. I like grooming, compiling, and analyzing information, and that I can do remotely.
I'd like to do some workshops where folks came to the farm and learned to kill, clean, butcher, and preserve a hog; then took the meat home.
I'd like to do height-of-harvest workshops around preserving in the fermenting/canning/drying realm where folks take their stuff home.
I'd like to spend a year or two helping with a small-scale slaughterhouse a day or two per week.
I wouldn't mind doing some sort of forestry non-production work, checking work or measuring work, in camps over the summer. I'm very curious about photogrammetry/lidar/etc processing and how much coding is involved. I love maps and figuring out what's there, not so into assembly-line map production.
Hm. What else?
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Date: 2022-05-02 10:44 pm (UTC)there's a local CSA called Better Together which is a coalition of i think a dozen farms putting stuff together, with a couple core farms running it, for weekly pick-ups by customers. because so many people are contributing to the CSA, it accomodates variable output (the hardest time we had running a CSA for a hot second was that sometimes you kind of just don't have that much coming out of the garden), as well as specializations. so Polks Folly, a local pig farm, contributes pork and maybe cow milk, while other farmers contribute other things, and Chispas runs the drop-off/pick-up location, and everybody makes some money on the subscriptions, and the customers have a wide variety of items every week. this seems to me like a much more manageable way to do a CSA than to have each farm running its own thing. we were contributing eggs to Chispas's winter-egg CSA one year, but then they decided not to do it, and i kept the egg customers. now i just meet all my egg customers in the Outpost parking lot on Monday mornings, sell a bunch of eggs, and walk to the office. (that parking lto has video monitoring, and i do wonder what the people who look at the video think of all this.)
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Date: 2022-05-02 11:00 pm (UTC)Yes, it makes so much more sense! Besides, what's more old-school hippy than a co-op CSA?
In the best of all worlds where $ was not an issue, there'd just be a stand where everyone dropped off their excess produce and everyone picked up what they needed, though.
How many eggs do you do? Are they year-round, or a little seasonal?
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Date: 2022-05-02 11:04 pm (UTC)we have 35 hens, and get between a dozen and 30 eggs a day, depending on time of year and weather. we sell eggs year-round; we lamp the hens from fall equinox to spring equinox. we have not observed a decline in health or longevity as a result of lamping. we definitely do get more eggs in early summer & early fall though, with drop offs during extreme cold and extreme heat periods. i have 12dz eggs on the counter at home right now so am amping up social media egg sales; if that doesn't move them, we'll make and freeze a bunch of quiche, and if the overage persists (it usually doesn't), we'll probably donate some to the senior meal program down the street.
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Date: 2022-05-07 11:14 am (UTC)