Small farmers take note: this video is a synopsis of how our farm business works and how to start a profitable small farm.
I cover:
1. The different investment and payback periods for different kinds of livestock.
2. Which livestock types are best to start your farm with.
3. The livestock processing laws and the different options for sending your livestock to butcher.
4. The different grains and forage we feed our animals, and where we purchase it.
5. How to market your farm products.
6. My personal and our farm’s relationship to environmentalism and whether we are an organic farm.
And a book about his experience
When Peter Larson, a 44 year old principal at an architectural firm decides to leave his job to restart his family’s seventh generation farm near Ithaca, New York, he encounters doubting ghosts of his former self, hundreds of frankenchickens, fifty personable turkeys, three pigs, one enduring friendship, and the true self he has searched for his whole life. Filled with the psychology of change and down to earth stories of farming and homesteading, this is the true story of making the leap so many wish for but dare not.
