We have a roadside farm stand here on our 50-acre family farm, and each year our season runs from Memorial Day weekend through the last Saturday of November. We choose to have hours just two days per week- Saturdays from 10-4 and Tuesdays from 12-6. This allows me to run the stand without hired help […]

How to Use Skill-Teaching as an Income on the Homestead Teaching classes on your homestead can be a lot of fun and quite rewarding. Over the years, my husband and I have taught many classes at our farm; everything from how to milk a goat, blacksmithing, basket weaving and yarn spinning. Classes can serve: – […]

Profit as a Homesteader Shared with permission from MOTHER EARTH NEWS and Friends Download this episode (right click and save) From being open-minded but honest about what you can and can’t provide to consumers, to finding and keeping customers, to looking at your homestead as a place for new, potential resources, the urban homesteading business can […]

Our Story How Farm2Fork Came to Be Farm2Fork Ranch began like any other thing in life, a hope, a dream, and a glimmer in the eye. While working on wedding plans, Greg and I started throwing around ideas for the future. He mentioned he’d always wanted to have a farm. I didn’t mind, I basically […]

Taking Your Lumps: Tough going gets better. In a past life, I thought it would be a great idea to start a kayak fishing guide service in Puerto Rico. Getting paid to do something I love to do sounded amazing (sound familiar?) So after gathering some meager funds, watching a ton of YouTube videos, and […]

Lavender Farm Becomes Agritourism Stop Shared From Grit Magazine – Written By: Deborah R. Huso Julie Haushalter decided to start growing some lavender of her own, and she began with 150 plants, selling the harvested buds, as well as products she made from lavender, at the nearby Harrisonburg Farmers’ Market. The business took off like wildfire, […]

How Modern Homesteaders Can Make Money in the Livestock Market Written By: Tim Young, MOTHER EARTH NEWS Blogger Did you know that, as a homesteader, you can make a great living in the stock market? No, I am not talking about the New York Stock Exchange big board. I’m talking about the big-time live(stock) market. […]

Pick Your Markets Just as You Pick Your Friends Shared From MOTHER EARTH NEWS  Written by: Mort Mather Some people carry too far the idea of growing what is easy. I got a call one July from someone who had planted and brought to harvest an acre of zucchini. Now that they had a product, they […]

Excerpted from Sustainable Market Farming by Pam Dawling Which crops to grow Some crops require more skill or are less dependable. If your climate is marginal for okra, avoid relying on it for a large part of your summer income. Gardening When it Counts by Steve Solomon has a table of “Vegetables by level of […]

Excerpted from Sustainable Market Farming by Pam Dawling In some cases, your crop could produce both food and seed, as we do with our tomatoes and watermelon. But getting two crops from one plant does take more time, compared to simply mashing the whole tomatoes, for instance. There are other ways to have your crop […]