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Old 11/23/10, 01:49 AM
 
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Because orchards, brambles & vineyards take several years to establish themselves, a common practice is to plant strawberries between the rows. That way, you will have a reliable cash crop each summer until your other fruits/berries begin paying off. Since strawberry plants only produce well for a couple of years, and are cheap, you will feel no pain when the time comes to yank them out of the ground.
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Old 11/25/10, 09:24 AM
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Remember that the best Hog farmers love hogs the best at raiseing watermelon love them and Im sure the best Cobra raiser loves them too...what do you love?
WOW Sounds like you got the garden of Eden.
Why not just ease into it?
Start with a bit of this and a bit of that till things click.
Id be thinking of a nice romantic looking dock where guests could park their boats or be dropped off to spend a night in 1 or a few small cabins set admidst your water gardens.
you might look at eddible landscape. need a hedge,plant bush cherries, Need a shade tree? plant plums,persimon or sugar maple etc.
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Old 11/25/10, 09:30 AM
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I think we used to have a guy here named veggiefarmer who raised veggies for the high end resteruant trade I cant find his posts But I think his farm name was"Flying Pig farm" and he was located out in Oregon....he had some GREAT advice.
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Old 11/25/10, 09:32 AM
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If I wanted to have a decent return, protect and improve the land while not having to commit all my time to the venture, I would do what I am already doing and that is rotational grazing beef cattle.
I would too.
Particularly from a retirement perspective.

Cattle are fairly simple and self-sufficient. No specialized equipment is needed, relatively little start-up costs, much less time-cost (as compared to growing plants)...
Granted, cows are what I know, so I'm probably biased, but this is the route we're moving toward, too.
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