Ryan Hobbs wrote:
Travis Johnson wrote:I always wanted to change the time honored gifting of cigars when a person has a child born.
How silly, "Here, let's celebrate the birth of a human being that only happens a very few times in a person's life by giving you something that will make you all smelly and fill your lungs with cancer."
I always thought a parent giving away tree seedlings or wooden pens would be a great way to give a meaningful, artistic present rather then a token gift that gets snubbed out in a nasty ash tray. But the tradition never has caught on.
If anyone sells tree seedlings or makes wooden pens, by all means run with the idea if you wish.
This might be a good income source for me. Seed-grown tree seedlings are rare on the market and I'll have a greenhouse by February. Maybe I could start making Food Forest Starter Kits for Northern Appalachia and the Midwestern states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa.
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Orin Raichart wrote:I like the idea of food forest seed starter kits: upper story, mid story, bushes, shrubs, vines and ground cover. Each kit would explain how the plants are synergistic and what dishes you could make from the start kit.
You could also do replacement seedlings (Paul Wheaton's opinion is the tap root for starter trees are less likely to punch through hard pan or other subterrian obstacles but people who can't wait for trees to grow will still order them).
You could sell different tasting food forests and different zoned food forests
You need to decide how much, in dollars or whatever your currency is, is enough...this is a very practical question most business plans try to answer in different terms: figure out what is going to take money that you want then figure out how much you need. ...then once monies start to come in when you find ideas that work, you will know how many streams you need to cook up
Good luck!
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Ryan Hobbs wrote:
...have to sell the products of a 3 month period for a combined $2000. That will give me $500 a month. (Check my math please, I'm not 100% sure this is right, it's early in the morning.)
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Orin Raichart wrote:
Ryan Hobbs wrote:
...have to sell the products of a 3 month period for a combined $2000. That will give me $500 a month. (Check my math please, I'm not 100% sure this is right, it's early in the morning.)
erm, $2000/3 isn't $500
and I'm thinking you haven't accounted for things like your food, your heat, your cooking energy, your haircut, your mortgage, your transportation costs (vehicle or bicycle), your clean water, your sewer or compost, your gifts to people for their birthdays etc, your clothes, your tools, your shelter maintenance, your reported income tax.....these are expeditures you really need to account for and are the reasons people do solar air heaters, RMH, electric vehicles, rainwater etc....but you will still need to create that infrastructure....how much is it going to cost you???
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