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Why We Kept Our Jobs When We Started Farming

Published 13 days ago • 2 min read

The Truth About Starting a Farm Nobody Wants to Say

Hey Reader,

Module 2 of The Part-Time Farmer Playbook is live.

This one is about money, but not in the way most farm business content talks about it.

I'm not talking about grants or loans or investors. I'm talking about the thing that actually funded Longbottom Farm in the early years.

Our jobs.

When we started farming we had school loans, renovation debt on an 1800s house, a tractor to buy, fencing to run, and a hundred other things that needed to happen before the farm could produce anything worth selling.

None of that was going to pay for itself in year one. Our W-2 income is what made it possible.

Most farm content glosses over this. I'm not going to do that.

If you're in the early years and wondering why the farm isn't paying for itself yet, then watch this one.

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with my appreciation,

Jason

Aka: The Part-Time Farmer​

​homegrownhosting.com​

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