Farms: $80,000 on Half An Acre Farming Vegetables - Profitable Mini-Farming with Curtis Stone
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Curtis' book: The Urban Farmer - http://amzn.to/2glFxDI Learn more about Urban Farming on our weekly podcast at http://www.permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer In this presentation you will learn how small scale farming can be used to create a high-income producing farm or improve your current operation. See how profitable urban farming works as farmer Curtis Stone shows you how he assembled a multi-locational urban farm that grossed $20,000 in its first year and $55,000 in it’s second. He’ll describe the design of his farm, equipment used, planting plan and target markets. Though records are not yet kept on how quickly farms can get in and off the ground, Curtis got his farm up and running and generating income in 6 months, which has to be some sort of record. It certainly gives new meaning to the term “fast food”! Curtis Stone is the owner/operator of Green City Acres, a commercial urban farm based out of Kelowna, BC. Farming under an acre of land on a collection of urban plots, Green City Acres grows vegetables for farmers markets, restaurants, and retail outlets. Learn more at http://www.permaculturevoices.com/theurbanfarmer
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stay small! stay small! get too big and Monsanto will buy you out or buy next door and gmo cross pollinate all your hard organic work. gmo succefully makes crops bigger and larger yields and sometimes tastier. organics got a long uphill climb to defeat Monsanto. it's worth the extra cost. eat raw foods non gmo
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80k canada = 60k usa
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This is so damn cool! Great work! The future will need more urban farmers.
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ask any real farmers that isn't selling a book or speaking for an audience if making this kind of profit on even 10 acres is possible and they will say no. Don't jump into this shit without find out the real truth.
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thats great idea of self employeed..
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Great video thanks Curtis. I have a few acres in S France that we will try to get going, just need a few volunteers...
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Amazing!
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Where do you buy your Turkey fertilizer? I'm in the USA and can't find it.
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how do you keep people from taking the food from the feild
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What was the book he was talking about? Was it his or someone else's?
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Food stuff! Thanks for sharing! We just got a free class! 💚🌱💚
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Does this guy have a book. How do i emulate this guys techniques? THanks!
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Did you give back a few bucks for using other people's land since you reaped the profits off someone else's land?
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How do you control runoff from these properties? I don't see any barriers to keep the soil in place?
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fxck yea!
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how do you set up automatic irrigation at another persons house?
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bought the book before I even finished the talk. I guess you could say I'm sold.
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I enjoy farming but the challenge we are facing is finances and I know that you can go somewhere with farming this is a recreation we can do in life and enjoy the profits and the time you will be spending in farming especially if you have all the gagets that is needed if I can find someone who can hire me to work as a farmer I will be much happier because I enjoy it and you will get a lot of experience I am appreciating it
God richly bless you in your farming I hope you will enjoying it and get more profit -
What's the name of your book sir....can anyone answer this....thx.
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Yeah Brother Man! Us Americans aint' a bad lot, are we: Down here, especially in rural and southern areas, the prevailing philosophy is usually, "Hey now pick up that shovel and get to work or get the f*ck out of my way! Yeah, and you'd all be speaking a Soviet- style Russian if it wasn't for the good 'lo USA. In some ways, we've lost touch with our better angels, but I still believe in the inherent goodness of my people. And BTW, I, for one, love and respect Canadians for your hard work, low-key humor, and those funny hats with the flaps! But seriously Curtis, I hope the Urban Farm Movement sticks around long enough to make a difference in everybody's financial and bodily health. Your show is primo, simply one of the best. You're straight ahead, informed, and you share your wealth of knowledge to the rest of us eager for social change. Dig this, the more local, local farmers are, the less money goes outside of the community and all the wonderful things that Wendell Barry speaks of in the Unsettling of America will have a chance to come true.
The only disturbing trend I see is the super-duper love affair some of the bigger Urban Farmers are having with insane high-tech machines; you know, the Frankenstein operations that brag about, "no dirt touches our plants! Only this special glowing red liquid full of micro-macros, macro-micros, and reconstituted fritos!"
You know what I mean?
Keep up the great work!