the Gardening Entrepreneur

[bobm]

so lucky ... When one has parents that were successful farmers AND professional business people , then lost everything due to World War 11 and escaped with only their shirts on their backs, managed to come to the US, earn a teaching position at a major University School of Vet. Med. Anatomy Dept. for 29 years, and raise 4 kids ( all graduated from College ). I worked at a major University with Vet. Med. Professors with world wide recognition, where cutting edge research ( such as genetic parentage identifiers ) are backed up with reproducible facts and in the forefront of reason. I own a ranch that I developed from raw rangeland ( 22 years now ) that is profitable. So, I tend to see the world as I learned it in the school of hard knocks and in acadamia, not through rose colored glasses.

 

[ninnymary]

OK, how about Negative Norman?

Love this so lucky!

Mary

 

[digitS']

For livestock startups:

Scandinavia is the land of the unicorns - link!

What? Oh, not those unicorns?

Steve

 

[Nyboy]

It's a cute idea and I'm sure it will take off....lot of folks out there who want something for no effort, no matter the costs. People LOVE to spend money...I'm betting NYboy has already ordered one!

I am doing my part to keep the ecomony flowing. I believe Jack bought his wife something similar at home depot for their deck.

 

[Nyboy]

I see bob as TEG very own Ralph Nadar, always warning of the dangers, not a bad thing at all.

 

[so lucky]

It takes all kinds of thinkers to form a good society....all the dreamers and practical thinkers and leaders and followers. Bobm, I'll bet your parents had a dream of their own. Otherwise they wouldn't have been so successful in the face of adversity.
I tend to see the proverbial glass as full, usually. Half water, half air, which is useful in its own right.

 

[seedcorn]

$500,000 income in 2015? What illegal drug are they producing from their garden? Their claims are beyond hilarious. They have been watching too many episodes of "Weed".

 

[Nyboy]

Seed I wouldn't have taken you for a fan of that show!!

 

[seedcorn]

I'm not but I was a fan of one of the actors. Watched 1, maybe 2 episodes till I understood what I understand.

I'm not the smartest when watching or renting movies. Once checked what I thought was a western out of the library, only to find out it wasn't a western. My wife and DD still give me grief about that. Every time it is advertised on TV as coming up, they want to know IF I am going to watch and record it..... Grrrrrrrr

 

[digitS']

Seeds!

No I mean selling them ...

Fedco seems to operate something like a co-op. Or, perhaps they just buy seed from a lot of growers. I bet it's true with a lot of these small seed companies - maybe the wholesalers, too! The isolation requirements must be daunting for some things, like squash.

Bobm now has the chance to belittle the organic certification process but even hippy outfits like Fedco, where Mary'n'Johnny is likely smoked out behind the barn, sell non-organic seed.

Steve