Kicked out at 17, he was an orphan and had to battle with relatives to get back the house his parents left him and his siblings.
Just…one problem. The house was barely livable. They had to fix it just to make it where they could live in it.
Even after making some repairs, he considered the house trash. He was grateful for it, but didn’t sugarcoat it. It was a dump.
Fast forward to today and that same guy regrets one thing about the house.
He regrets not knowing what he does now about growing food. See, while the house was deplorable, it was set on 1.5 acres of land.
And today he laments…if only he would have known a few things, he could have been using that land to make revenue and fix up the house and have an incredible lifestyle.
Well, thankfully for you…you don’t have to live his story.
You could create an income using your backyard. Others are doing it. As a matter of fact, there are people making full time incomes with just 1/3rd of an acre. (https://youtu.be/adW3GCQGHug)
So how can you tap into this potential?
Simple. You just need to get started. There are a number of ways to turn a profit with your backyard such as:
- Growing produce and selling it to locals or to restaurants
- Growing and selling flowers and shrubs
- Raising chickens and selling the eggs
- Starter plants – start your own nursery, get the plants going, and sell them to others who don’t want to start from seed
- Tea and herbal mixes
- Mushroom production
- Seed selling
If you do a little digging, you’ll find that these are businesses that can put a hefty amount of cash in your pocket. For example, people can be rabid buyers of different types of seeds.
Seeds are simple to package and sell and so compact, but it’s not uncommon for someone to pay $13-$20 for a bundle.
Starter plants have now gone up to $5 a plant. More for organic. A greenhouse setup in your backyard lets you produce hundreds of these that will bring in thousands of dollars.
Also, it’s not uncommon for mushroom sellers to make a nice profit at farmers markets as people LOVE mushrooms.
By combining your new self sufficiency journey with business skills, you can have the best of both worlds. This works because you’ll be providing a service that most others want, but currently don’t have the time to do for themselves.
If others can do it with a small patch of land, so can you.
Now get to work!
