They wouldn’t daydream about folding clothes and cleaning suits. I mean, if someone was stuck in a soul-sucking cubicle job and wanted out, and if they stumbled across an opportunity to start a dry-cleaning operation, wouldn’t they assess it as a business? Namely, they need customers and a sales price that far exceeds the production cost.Īnd, that’s how they would approach any other business, right? And they’re not immune to the laws of business. So, it’s generally not the business plans or finances that lures them to these businesses.Īnd that’s a shame, because, as you yourself may already know, these ARE businesses.
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Of growing food under blue skies to the soothing sounds of birds and bees rather than grating sounds of traffic and ambulances.Īnd those are all great reasons to embrace farm life.īut, notice I didn’t mention anything about finances? About customers? Because folks are rarely lured into this lifestyle by thoughts of, “I’ve got an idea of how to make a boatload of money farming.”
Of tending sheep or chickens, collecting eggs, planting seeds, harvesting crops. What draws them is the idea of working on the land. It’s an issue I’ve see often with small farmers, as they seem to operate partly as a farm business and partly…or mainly, I should say,…as a hobby farm.Īnd I understand why this happens when people opt out of other careers for farm life. So, this topic of understanding the difference between farm hobbies and farm businesses is very important. The phrase hobby farm is cute and all, but what’s the difference between a hobby farm and a farming business? In this episode, I’m going to tell you why you might have a farm hobby that costs you money rather than a thriving farm business that earns you money.
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