Resources to selling farm fast:
1. http://oureverydaylife.com/sell-land-property-fast-16829.html
2. Google "how to sell your farm fast"
3. List for free at Zillow.com
A place for my thoughts at the moment. 一個此刻想起的事件/ 事物網站 "-> Just being satisfied with who I am -> No Hedonic Treadmill -> As long as I tried my best that's all that matters" -Oct 8th 2011
Saturday, July 23, 2016
Sunday, June 12, 2016
How to make a profit in small organic farm
Being a physician can be stressful. I find relief and respite in the farm, living with the nature, appreciating the rural unadulterated beauty.
Useful and motivational websites:
Useful and motivational websites:
- http://mofga.org/Publications/MaineOrganicFarmerGardener/Spring2011/SmallFarm/tabid/1866/Default.aspx
- http://rodaleinstitute.org/our-work/organic-no-till/
Ideas:
- Homestead for-profit business vs. self-sufficiency non-profit
- No-till cover crops
- Making $40,000 profit per acre per planting vs. per year;
Plan:
- Be frugal and a minimalist in the beginning--don't go into debt as much as possible
- $10,000 budget?
- Start small
- If every adult spends $15/day on healthy meals = $5,475/yr; To feed 10 ppl = $54,750/yr; 100 ppl = $547,500; 200ppl or 100 families = $1,095,000
- Poultry in 1 acre land? for eggs and meat? organic feed? cost effective/ profitability? 6 months to lay eggs, 6 weeks to meat; CAS--Controlled atmosphere stunning-- for no pain slaughtering (http://www.hsa.org.uk/downloads/technical-notes/TN12-gas-killing-of-chickens-and-turkeys.pdf);
- Goats to graze the land and control weeds? 1 acre housing? profitability? CAS slaughtering?
- Bamboo for lumber? 1 acre
- Fruit trees (avocado, apples, oranges, figs, peaches, nectarines, blueberry, raspberry), melons, strawberries
- Compose and recycle and reuse
- Flowers? profitability?
- Employment? Individuals interested in grass root movement, environmental/ecological impact; 2 acres per employee--$40,000 to the company; >=$40,000 to the employee
- Reduce fuel use, waste, or environmental impact
- Produce fuel?
- Straw and goats for weed suppression
- Beneficial insects, row covers/ tunnels/ green houses, companion planting for pest control
- Grow complete food groups (wheat/oats, leafy greens, carrots/yam, tomatoes, potatoes, chickpeas/soy beans/ eggs/ poultry/ goat meat, fruits)
Tuesday, March 29, 2016
My Life Goals
- Make $500K a year and have at least three investment properties, so that I am not working for money and can do other things that I like at my discretion-- Ideally, having an income of at least $10K/ month???
- Improving the lives of individuals with cerebral palsy and other disabilities--enabling them to be more functional, active and mobile, and not limited by the wheelchairs
- Farming, Ecological, environmental issues, food delivery and consumption, health????
- Medical waste???
- Cost of health care???
- Cost of durable goods???
- "Natural farming"
- Raising kids who will be good citizens
- Travel the world to learn from others including disability, farming, environmental and health issues---Not fond of resorts/ cruises where loafing on the beach and getting drunk are the norm
- Want my family and anyone around me to be happy, possible???
- Have pink, orange, yellow and other bright flowers blooming in the outdoors year round
- Be happy, stress-free, healthy, and active
- Not waste time and have better time management
- Be organize and minimize my possessions
- Improve on my writing, English and speaking skills
- Talk with confidence and authority
- Be funny but not condescending
- Be helpful
- Say more positive things
Sunday, March 27, 2016
Way of Life
Problems of developed worlds
- Isolation
- Loneliness
- Competition
- Depression
- Stress
- Obesity
- Violence
- Overpopulation
- War
- Hatred
- Pollution
- Diseases
Resolutions to the modern world problems
- Miya Shoji: living with nature: boltless/ nail-free sliding doors
- What the ancients knew: Japan
- Solar decathlon
- Natural farming-- Full* Belly* Farm*; Occidental Art and Ecology Center;
- http://ediblesacramento.ediblefeast.com/; http://ediblesacramento.ediblefeast.com/food-thought/drought-tolerant-diet-how-eating-your-veggies-positively-impacts-health-environment
Decks with wheelchair ramps
http://media.merchantcircle.com/17243024/new%20pictures%200171_full.jpeg
http://www.suncoastdeck.com/images/portfolio/pic-88.jpg
http://www.dmdeckingandfencing.co.uk/p7lsm_img_4/fullsize/All_round_house4_fs.jpg
Bing search: "deck with wheelchair ramp"
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