The Best Way to Start Farming
Read this before you do it backwards
8 min readSep 18, 2022
- I run a small-ish ranch in Virginia with one full-time employee (me) and a half-dozen people working a day or two a week, and doing about $300K/year in sales.
- The farm is profitable, pays a minimum wage of $20/hour, and provides me with nearly a full-time living.
- It was a very, very difficult journey to get here (I talk about this journey in detail in my book, accessible through Patreon)
- I’m writing this essay to spare you as much pain as…
