I'll work on it! Thanks for your interest!
Anything in particular? Propagation? Potting? Sales? Planning?
The mechanics of producing are most interesting to me... but the marketing and sales are where the rubber meets the road.
Just looking for a good direction to go in first.
All locally, yes.
Craigslist (made $175 on 2 sales) and Nextdoor ($0)
$30 in sales word of mouth at church.
Adding in Facebook this week, need to finish that up.
Also sold at a yard sale ($565 over 2 days) and a local agricultural store spring festival ($365 over 4 hours)
So I guess it's more like $1135 all together! I was just thinking of the bigger sales.
I've been working on rebooting our plant nursery this spring.
I had things up and running a couple years ago but had gotten busy since and things had gotten neglected.
The focus this year is on berries: Blueberries, Blackberries, Raspberries, Strawberries, sold in trade gallon pots.
I intend to keep more regular updates going forward 😉
I've sold about $800 so far over the last 3 weeks.
Some learnings thus far for our area (Western NY):
1.) I was trying to sell at $15 each or 3 for $40. This was too high, or, at least I wasn't making any sales, so I'm down to $10 each or 3 for $25 and things are selling.
2.) People typically don't know about plant varieties at all so there is a lot of education required. Even things like the fact that they come back, year after year. When you'd get berries, etc. People are far removed from seasonality.
3.) Having leafed out plants is important.... about a month ago it was still pretty cold so especially at early sales, people would exclaim, "Those are just sticks". Next year I'll keep them in our nursery area with the black ground cover to get leaves on them, earlier.
Economics/Cost:
Plants I bought in cost $4-$5 each (including shipping). Pots are around $0.44 each. The growing medium is well rotted wood chips, biochar, and worm castings, which just cost me time.
I propagated about 75% of my plants myself (Raspberries, Blackberries) so that cost is just my time.
If you have a green thumb, a little cash to invest, and some space and time, this would be a good way to make some quick cash.
That's the first post for now, I'll follow on with more specifics so you can duplicate or learn!
#permaculture #gardening #propagation #grownostr
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We took some time about a month ago to stick elderberry cuttings along a seasonal stream on our property.
Here they are now!
#permaculture
Yep. Just cuttings pushed into the soil. It's fairly wet in that area so I hope they do well. I put in maybe 20 or 25.
With elderberry and most hardwood cuttings (currant, gooseberry, jostaberry) you want 2 "nodes" on your cutting. The node is the area where leaves and branches come out of the stem. They contain undifferentiated cells that can become stems if they are above ground or roots below.
I opened a slot in the soil so they weren't damaged when pushing them in.
Nice work on the guerilla grafting!
We took some time this evening to stick elderberry cuttings along a seasonal stream on our property.
A natural gas pipeline went in here a couple years ago so I decided to take advantage of the disturbance along the edge.
#permaculture
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Thanks to nostr:npub1v0tfjv5ahr3c260jtzdk5w48krerrnkg8fmcnc5lpguk0qda04eqzm3m3e the kids have some fancy custom wallets to keep their Goldbacks safe and in order! Custom leather for #bitcoin.
These are built to last them forever!
Thanks again! I enjoyed doing business!
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Nope. I should have said "Curtis Stone's Video" instead of the Ice Age Farmer. Apologies Curtis if you are reading this!
During the recent cold snap we've had in Western NY caused by a "polar vortex", I remembered a guy by the name of the Ice Age Famer I ran across 3 or 4 years ago.
I wanted to share this in case anybody else has not run across this information.
He discussed solar activity as relates to climate on the Earth. During periods of weaker solar activity, there are more galactic cosmic rays that impact the earth. This leads to, among other things, a weakened jet stream, allowing cold air or warm air dive down (or up, as the case may be!) and more pronounced droughts and precipitation.
Now, the current solar cycle we are in (Solar Cycle 25) is more active than predicted, but not as active as cycles in the past hundred years or so. The last time the solar cycle looked like it did now was around the early 1900's. You know, dustbowl times.
Now, what to do about this? Resilience in our food systems is the key in my opinion. Here are 3 practical things we are doing:
1.) Plan for cold (and warm) snaps by planting resilient plants that can survive outside your zone. My grandfather said you should plant trees that can survive 2 USDA zones colder than you are in.
2.) Build soil organic matter and soil life with biochar, cover crops, and application of soil biology through composts. These allow the rain we do get, to penetrate the soil and can hold water and release it slow. nostr:npub15879mltlln6k8jy32k6xvagmtqx3zhsndchcey8gjyectwldk88sq5kv0n just had a discussion of this on the Survival Podcast.
3.) Remineralize your soil (and composts) with rock dusts and ocean minerals to in turn build the nutrition content of your crops and animals.
I have not been able to find anything recently from the Ice Age Famer, but am leaving his video here for others should they find it interesting. The fascinating part of this was the Ice Age Farmer also tracked these solar cycles back to civilization failures and famine because of food shortages.
#grownostr #gardening #biochar #compost #permaculture
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Yeah... it may just take longer depending on what the food is.
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