Farm Ranch

[theclearspot]

Im thinking of buying a small cottage and land. I want to ask advice on how to best make this profitable. It could be by farming or perhaps as a small holiday business. I want to do something completely different all thoughts appreciated...?

 

[billy_big_bud!]

i would think that would be a difficult question to answer without know where you are thinking geographically. if its the north pole farming is out. if it is hawaii then snowmobiling tours or a sugar shack are out. location location location...

 

[Fixer]

Choose something that you like to do and makes enough to live on. Building a business is really gratifying but often a slog.

 

[Switcher56]

Everyone wants to be their own boss. OTOH very few realize how consuming owning a business really is.

 

[flylowgethigh]

Mainstream farmers are going broke with the cheap prices. If you farm organic and find your nitche, you may be OK. Something like strawberries, or other non-mainstream GMO crop. Livestock? I would advise against Emus. Those didn't work out so well. I watched an Emu farm come and rapidly go, back in the EMU daze.

 

[theclearspot]

Yes Billy its central europe: warm summers , cold winters. Better climate than UK, less rain. Probably similar to central France, south west England.

 

[theclearspot]

I have zero experience farming I imagine that would be a steep learning curve...But id like to keep goats, sheep, chickens.

 

[D. B. Doober]

Start an animal sanctuary...huge tax breaks and good deals on land and stuff. You could get a couple geese and a pig or a turkey or something. Turkeys are cool. If you like horses you can do it very cheap.

 

[theclearspot]

Animal sanctuary sounds great but problem is I will have a mortgage to pay back...

 

[dufous]

Chickens. Pasture raised eggs and broilers.

 

[hayday]

Rabbits,manure and worm castings...sell to local garden centers.