Great idea.
Make a business plan just like you would if you were opening any shop.
Write down all the possible ideas from what you read and hear and just come up with. Keep them in a book. Don't judge them up front as ideas lead to more ideas and take on a life of their own.
Look at others doing something along this line and get into communication with them and join a group or start one. The only competition you have is the insane situation that we find in America's insane policies so 'birds of a feather'. Go to meetings, start meetings and get involved, always keeping the log books of what you have learned. Be very diligent about this.
Andy Lipkis, the founder of Tree People started out creating a movement in Los Angeles and now has a group that has planted millions of trees in the LA area and his foundation gets major funding from big donors and people that just want to help. I think he planted over one million trees in less than one year.
And know this, when there was a big problem with the dust bowls in Roosevelt's time, and they became aware of the problem, because the dust filled the skies of Washington D.C. that the federal government got involved and set up a program in which they planted 200,000,000 trees and they had to have people that knew what they were doing to orchestrate that. On a scale of 1-10 I believe that government people are at least a -200 but there are times when they are useful, so look around and see if one of them that is useful maybe slipped through the cracks a la Ron Paul.
Here is one thing that I especially recommend; hang out on YouTube and NextWorldTV.com and follow up with the speakers you find there. Create your own database of resources (people you meet) and websites you go to and see about creating your own website so you can all communicate together.
Also, many of the farmer's markets have people who are very interested and maybe even expert in the fields of farming and growing things and so might be able to steer you with referrals.
Then see if one or some of them are really great ideas and take the steps to get one or more implemented. Do little tests.
Now, if you have a great idea that might take a long time, ginseng growing for instance, you might get an investor or maybe people will pay for the ginseng ahead of time.
Think about starting small depending on your resources and also farms like Polyface Farms have lots and lots of people that are willing to almost give their property to someone who will take care of it because their children don't have an interest in it and they love it.
There is so much opportunity right now because there is that confusion of what to do.
Hook up with Amish or Quaker farmers in an area because they, while it is farming, are also great Stewart's of the land.
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