Farming is hard af. And trying ro run a profitable business while not being extractive from the land (and yourself) is even harder.
We've been learning over the last three years that diversifying our activities allows the farm to stay financially stable - farming for production, animals, events, rental spaces for tenants and businesses, education, and a marketplace.
Yellow Barn has kind of become a small business incubator. If all the businesses can leverage a shared space, a wide pool of people and skills, mentorship, AND we can all just pay each other, then you're really creating some efficiency and keeping money in a closed-loop system.
My favorite permaculture principle is "stacking functions" (i.e having the compost pickup route a lso be a food delivery route AND having the food waste be pig food, etc). So the metric we most value is "how many times can we get a dollar (soon to be sats) to circulate through the ecosystem before it has to exit?"
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