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Start a Mini Farm Business in Your Backyard Or Small Acreage
Filed Under (Business Strategy, Eco Conscious Consumer, Eco Friendly Products) by davidguide on 06-01-2009
Tagged Under : Agriculture, Certified Naturally Grown, Dairy, Dairy farming, Dairy product, Global Warming, Milk, Pasture
In this new world of eco-consciousness, concern of global warming, home business and entrepreneurship, a gourmet treasury of backyard mini-farm opportunities are being born. They range from substantial extra streams of income to full-time income, and from rooftops, even apartments (!) to farms on small acreage. Out of the ashes of the farming disaster in the 1980s came a new form of organic small acreage or backyard farm, the “micro eco-farm.” The Center for the Micro Eco-Farming Movement, there are reports of angora rabbits being raised in apartments, organic herb gardens in backyards selling herbal crafts over the internet, miniature sheep, miniature dairy cows, organic flower farms on small acreage, heirloom vegetable farms on small acreage, garlic farms on small acreage, flower seed farms from backyards, and the list goes on.
