Thanks for the shout out Adam! To make good money on chestnuts you need to know how to 1. plant and care for a tree, 2. mow and 3. sell. I'm thinking you're good at all of that! See what Red Fern Farm's doing down in SE Iowa for U-Pick. (They just retired from the nursery business but much of their stock when to Canopy in IL, associated with Savanna Institute.
My initial concern is that we might be too far north for chestnut trees, but I only spent about six minutes on research, so I need to dig deeper into this. There's something about it that looks peaceful to me. I can envision myself like Forrest Gump on one of those old Snapper lawnmowers, at peace with the world and myself.
As always, thank you for reading and sharing my stuff!
Interesting article Adam. Although I'm no expert in agriculture, I'm reading a book at the moment called The Omnivore's Dilemma, a lot of it is about corn.
Just saw that chart that you put in with the corn. Price keeps falling, but you have to keep producing because it's your livelihood right? It's not like other businesses where when prices fall, you can switch to doing something else for income.
When prices fall, only option is to produce more corn.
Thanks for the shout out Adam! To make good money on chestnuts you need to know how to 1. plant and care for a tree, 2. mow and 3. sell. I'm thinking you're good at all of that! See what Red Fern Farm's doing down in SE Iowa for U-Pick. (They just retired from the nursery business but much of their stock when to Canopy in IL, associated with Savanna Institute.
I will look into this further!
My initial concern is that we might be too far north for chestnut trees, but I only spent about six minutes on research, so I need to dig deeper into this. There's something about it that looks peaceful to me. I can envision myself like Forrest Gump on one of those old Snapper lawnmowers, at peace with the world and myself.
As always, thank you for reading and sharing my stuff!
Interesting article Adam. Although I'm no expert in agriculture, I'm reading a book at the moment called The Omnivore's Dilemma, a lot of it is about corn.
Just saw that chart that you put in with the corn. Price keeps falling, but you have to keep producing because it's your livelihood right? It's not like other businesses where when prices fall, you can switch to doing something else for income.
When prices fall, only option is to produce more corn.
Is that right?
My apologies if I've got that all wrong!
Great post, love the humour thrown in as well.