Quit Your Job, Grow & Sell Plants Instead!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ส.ค. 2024
- If you're in a job you don't love, I can relate. I spent 20 years in corporate jobs, managing meaningless things. I hear from a lot of people who would like to step away from these kinds of jobs, and get back to farming (veggies, flowers, animal husbandry). My kick is ornamental landscape plants. Whichever route interests you, I think there's something special about local agriculture. Customers are looking to connect with and reward local growers - and I think this makes for nearly unlimited opportunities for specialty farms and nurseries. In this video, I'll tell you four lessons I learned while transitioning towards the nursery business, and I hope you might find them helpful if you're considering making the leap.
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Definitely agree with not waiting. " do want you can, with what you have, where you are".
Exactly right.
Less brown
@FraserValleyRoseFarm where are u?. Those mountains in the background look so beautiful 😍.. I miss those views so much.
"I spent 20 years in corporate jobs, managing meaningless things."
I love your honesty and your bravery for giving that up to live a peaceful life with your family.
Starting my horticulture program at Colorado State University this fall. I’ve been growing from seed and propagating for years and love to garden a ton. I’ve always dreamed of having my own nursery. This is my step towards that finally. I’m 38 now so thankfully starting now will give me a few decades of living my dream. I have a mini nursery in my backyard starting up. I live in Kailua Kona Hawaii.
This is inspiring! Thank you! I found out already through my current career that it's not my passion and I also want to go into horticulture! It's never too late to do what you love!
Honestly Jason, I could listen to you talk all day long! You’re so articulate, and informative, and I really learn so much from every video you put out. Thank you for sharing your wisdom.
Same. He's in my top five YT channels ☺
You Sir are not only a fine Rose Grower , also an exceptional entrepreneur. always enjoy & learn. thank you !
Thanks so much Gary!
When i got laid off over the coof, i decided i was well and truly done with the nonsense of the modern world and workplaces. Ever since ive been independendtly employed doing lawncare and landscaping and ive been gardening at home, and doubling my gardening every year so far. I think i really want to start my own nursery or something along these lines. Started just growing vegetables and stuff, and this year ive moved onto blueberry bushes and roses on top of all my tomatoes, peppers, peas, beets, etc.
I took 12 rose cuttings yesterday to try and root into new plants, maybe THIS is the first step of my future rose nursery i never knew i was going to start?
Three week update on my rose cuttings since i just got the Heart, 8 successful rose cutting are just now pushing their first new leaves after dropping the original ones they had left to start with! And after i did those, i went and bought some rooting hormone, and did a ton more! plus a multitude of trees!
@@7thsluglord363I'm so happy for you! I started growing my own food during the coof for fear that at one point the powers that be wouldn't let certain people go to grocery stores anymore. It turned out to be great therapy for the mental issues I suffered as part of the measures. Eventually I got fired as I couldn't keep up at work anymore and I continued growing more food and forage, whilst helping to take care of my sick father in his last months (blood clots and cancer, no idea how he got that...) I will be using my inheritance to get a homestead of sorts and selling fruit, vegetables and/or trees (not sure yet, experimenting growing different things in my mother's house while cleaning up the place etc). There is NO WAY I will ever go back to having a job, let alone an office job. Looking back, I don't understand how I lasted for so many years, apart from having wonderful colleagues I enjoyed working with.
I love the reminder to not only start small, but to just actually start! I have been saving glass jars for my cut flower displays and sowing seeds into yoghurt pots. Now I just have to start telling people to watch this space for seedlings, herbs, eggs, rabbit manure and cut flowers, it’s definitely hard to commit to producing!
The first one seems to be the hardest step, no matter how small.
I have to work on my “Selling of the plants” part
That's definitely the trickiest part to learn - growing is the fun part.
This is just the right video for me. I'm a scientist, my first job was working in three greenhouses growing plants to test herbicides on. I was never happier growing plants there! We even had a rice greenhouse.
Fast forward 40 years, I'm disabled and growing plants in my little quarter acre. And I've never been happier! It's my first year working the soil that has lain follow on my family's home for 40 years.
My first goal was to get the bees and insects back, which are only 10% of what they once were in California.
Well that went overboard because we didn't have enough beneficial predators. I'm now nurturing the beneficial predators and I'm keen on propagating plants, extremely keen.
My number one goal is to get the insects back, I'm so saddened that we're at a 10% level compared to when I was a child.
But I have to sell all the plants I'm excited to propagate, The silver leaf sunflowers that are drought resistant, the milkweed plants that are so essential for the butterflies, borage...
In suburbia in California it's a landscape of home Depot plants which are dreadfully uniform. My urge is to grow real plants, nurture beneficial insects and support the bird populations.
Good to hear you're following your passion - and what an excellent focus on insects as well as plants!
I love and admire that you actually write written responses to so many of the comments! How kind and considerate.
Thanks!
I love your vibe, Jason. You do great work, you are genuine, and you are likable. Keep it up! Thank you for the information and inspiration!
Aw, thanks Mike for the kind comment!
Great video, Jason! Thank you. This will be my first year selling plants from my small backyard nursery. It’s scary and exhilarating at the same time, but I’m ready. Your positive outlook is so reassuring and inspiring. I really needed your message today. Happy growing!
Hi Kathie! Congratulations on starting up your nursery... I hope you have a great season.
How’s it going ?!
Jason, I love the fact that you share your knowledge with others. I'm hoping you will soon be able to ship to the U.S., as I would like to help support your business.
I'm 2 years into starting a permaculture nursery .. on a shoestring budget (but we're barefoot 😁) and at this point, it is more about gathering propagation material and developing skills for me. TH-cam lets me show people, potential customers and friends, how far along we have come in that journey - and I've already made a few sales. I've shipped more plants than I have sold, and mainly the reason for that is to make sure that when I ship live plants to a paying customer, they will have the best chance at arriving in a healthy state, ready to transplant .. and I can get updates on those plants as time passes, to see how they are doing. 🌼🌳 I've THOUGHT about ordering in plants to get a jump on sales .. but I know everything about every plant that goes out NOW, and I could not say that if the plants came from another nursery, especially one that deals in bulk. If it takes longer to get to profitability, so be it - I want to be able to stand behind my product.
Thanks for your insights - and great YT channel, by the way! Lots of topics, and I do love how you're taking your viewers and customers along for the ride. I can completely understand taking it slow and locking down your processes before trying to expand. That's like the opposite what many entrepreneurs seem to be modeling. I can't say much about your local suppliers, but I've definitely found it helpful to buy in young plant starts to help get my season going. I already start hundreds of variety by cuttings, and dozens from seed - so I don't have any pangs of guilt about potting up some interesting varieties from other local propagators.
Looks like you are definitely taking this move seriously. Everything looks really nice and your advice (me being a former self employed business person) is spot on. I enjoy watching your journey and wish you great success. I have learned allot from your experiences and have applied much of your advice to my personal garden journey. Always looking for your new videos. Thanks and keep it up.
Thanks so much for the support Troy!
Been following you for 3 years and I can’t help but feel proud of your progress and achievements.
Thanks so much Jan!
Thank you for these videos. Great info!
you are brilliant. much appreciate the encouragement
Fantastic advice. Really enjoyed this session.
Love your information and perspectives
Love the videos and appreciate hearing about the process and struggles as well as successes!
solid content. pure gold
I am very greatful for this video!
I'm so glad I have found your channel. I really appreciate your honest and valuable advice. Thanks 🙂
Thank you Jason, very pleasant video.👍
Great Info! 👍
Thank you!!!
Very practical thanks.
Much respect to you Jason!
You are very helpful and generous with your time and information
Thank you. This is exactly what I needed to hear. ❤
Great attitude and honest advice. Subscribed.
wow your spot is so organized, good luck this coming year
Thank you Jason. Even though I’m not interested in starting a business your presentation was a very nice one and I’m sure very helpful to those wanting to start a business 🌷💚🙃
Thanks for sharing the information with us. Defiantly ill come this year to check it out and support your business.
Coquitlam, BC
Thanks so much Anna.
Just start! Is the best advice.
The sooner you start, the quicker you begin to realize what your actual skills are and what you need to learn.
I completely agree.
If you don't know where to start...
Get some seeds, a small bag of potting soil, some coffee cups or other small containers, and get those seeds in there.
We all start the exact same way and the more we try, the more we learn to do more.
As a 5 year old kid I started planting seeds from whatever fruits and vegetables we got from the grocery store or off our trees and stuck them in the ground. Growing up in farm country I just watched what the farmers were doing and my dad. I tried it and sometimes it worked and other times it didn't, then I would try to figure out what happened. Too much water, not enough.
One thing I learned right away was that soil will grow stuff....
I never used fertilizer, just the soil in the yard.
However, I did understand that all the winter leaves and grass clippings got spaded into the soil every year, because that was one of my chores, and wherever I spaded, that soil was always dark black and full of huge night crawlers. When I used that soil, my plants did much better.
Of course today we have so many resources to draw from.
Well done Jason!
Watching you develop your place of influence on your farm and here on TH-cam is a pleasure to watch and be a part of.
All of the different milestones you are achieving really blossom into some very interesting new things.
Although I have several decades of experience in growing, I always enjoy learning a different perspective or way of doing similar things.
I hope you realize how many different types of growers you have influenced just in this video alone.
As I read through the comments I see people inspired to take the next steps from thinking about it to actually getting started.
What a great compliment to you.👌
Hopefully people will watch this video multiple times because there is so much information and experience that you have shared here.
I may be running an 85 acre diversified farm, but everything you mention here is absolutely true no matter what a person might want to grow, produce, and sell.
There is no one answer for everyone, but the information will definitely help sort out which parts will apply to a particular plan.
By the way Jason, you are a good teacher. You are able to express your thoughts in a way that anyone listening can use that information quite easily.
I really appreciate the confidence and positive notations for success and you make sure to acknowledge the community that has supported you all along the way.
Very excellent!!!!!👌🤙
Thanks - and you're so right: start with just growing a few things from seed. Inexpensive, fast, and you don't need to wait for anything (even the "right" season). They can be so rewarding, and they really do teach you most everything you'd want to learn about growing plants. You could even build a pretty good business with just seed-grown stock, even if you do nothing at all from cuttings! Thanks so much for your words of encouragement
@@FraserValleyRoseFarm Thank you for great content.
I've watched quite a few nursery channels, but it seems most are trying way too hard to be different instead of just doing what they do.
You are a natural because you just show what you know and that is what people really want.
When I teach roasting or coffee processing people are fascinated, but no-one really wants to do it because they don't want to make a mistake with someone else's coffee. I've actually had people tell me I shouldn't give away my secrets, but the truth is roasting is roasting, just like growing is growing. Once you understand, you only get better.
I will tell you a secret about teaching: The more you share, the more you learn, and the better you get at putting your thoughts into useful information for others to understand and use.😉
What a wonderfully positive video. Excellent.
This is quite interesting and an eye-opener. Appreciate this. 💚💚
Thank you for the video! very inspiring and well put together.
Very useful information. Thank you.
This may have been the confirmation I needed. I’ve been spending time thinking on what it is that I could do that I enjoy enough to forge through the challenges of owning my own business. I’m good at a lot of things, and have started businesses around them. However, they don’t succeed because I may be good at it, but it’s not anything I’m passionate about. Gardening is different. I’ve always loved the outdoors, the Trial and error process of growing, and the work involved. This may be my path. Today I start!
Well best wishes with your gardening venture - for me it's both challenging and rewarding and I hope you'll find the same.
great video, thank you
Thanks for the video Jason.
Keep ‘em coming 👍🎯
Thanks so much for the inspiration great video
I have been following you for years. I’m super excited for you. Nursery is growing up fast. Great work
Great video and sounds like sound advice. Thanks for sharing.
You did a great job explaining this, thank you.
Was great to see some of the improvements you’ve done in the background of your video! Looking forward to seeing it in person!
Thanks Elaine!
I really enjoy your videos. Thanks.
I appreciate the feedback Dawn.
Thank you for this video! Your presentation style is very easy to follow, practical, and actionable.
I always enjoy watching your videos! You do a Great Job teaching your craft. Thanks for informing us, and Keep up the Good Work!
Thanks for the encouragement Ray!
You've given me much to think about
Such great information whether videos
thank you sir. i appreciate the truth!
Just wanted to say your Videos our super inspirieren and informativ. Me and my husband will definitely keep following.thank you!! An have a blessed day!!!❤❤
I think you’re a wonderful speaker!! I’ve never had a desire to grow roses, now after watching and learning about roses from your video’s, I’ll be ordering some roses just as soon as you start shipping! Roses can be intimidating, you’ve really helped me develop the confidence to plunge in, thank you so much for all your advice! 🌷
Amen my brother , this is my life goal as well like u ☺️
I just came across your video and I am impressed. It is a brave path and something that I have considered from time to time. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos and following in your footsteps!
Thank you.
I am in the process of transitioning over from my full time job to just farming hopefully soon. My wife and I are on a 35 acre organic family farm. We restored the barn and setup a barn store with soaps, pickled goods, jams. We have alpacas, beehives, pet pot belly pig, we grow vegetables and grow hemp to make our own cbd products. We also do farm tours. I work full time and work on the farm after work and weekends. Farming is what I really enjoy. I like interacting with people. Its definitely alot of hard work and you have to think outside the box!
Thanks - it's very inspiring or me to hear about your barn store. We've been dabbling with adding some goods like those ourselves. It looks like you're not afraid to try new things.
Jason, Well done! You've worked hard to get to where you are. If one loves what there doing, its more like fun than work. Meeting ,talking with people is an enjoyable aspect of this too. You have many talents. Your farm looks great.
Thanks a lot Dean. Close up, it looks a bit muddy and weedy, but when the weather turns we should be able to make a good presentation of it.
I can’t thank you enough.. I have saved and saved pots.. totally agree with your method..
Thank you for your very thoughtful videos. Your perspective much appreciated.
Thanks Pauline
Great video. We are at the begining of the process and have a basement full of trees. It's great to see your advice and the property looks amazing!
Nice! I hope you have a great season.
So informational, but more than that you are trustworthy. That in itself would make me purchase from you !
Well done!
great vid. very helpful
Another great video. Thank you for the inspiration. I am trying to start my own plant business and it is definitely a scary proposition. It is helpful to know that you have done it successfully.
Awesome Patrick... I wish you a great season!
I loved hearing your story, great stuff!
Jason, what a great informative video. I have been self employed in several businesses all of my life, and your video would apply to many business start ups. Your wisdom and knowledge, and great way of presenting it all is a gift to all that watch! I always look forward to your new videos. (just had my first 2 rose propagations root after following your info.) Thanks and keep up the great videos !!!!
Thanks so much for the encouragement Mike!
Great video
You are a wise man to overcome your fears. Thank you for this encouraging video.
Fantastic advice and thanks for sharing your experience. This year dabble with a transplant sale so this was very timely information.
My pleasure Kittie - and best luck with your plant sales!
Super helpful. I’m getting ready to have a plant sale on my driveway! Always good info Jason, thank you
Best of luck with your plant sale!
Thank you so much for sharing your journey! I have made my plan to transition too! Little by little is where I have started and going forward. I love the new little seed area too. Thanks again! I can't wait to leave corporate world!
Good for you Crystal. I'm hoping to never go back!
Great points. I'm starting with seeds and spare pots and seeing where I can go.
I'll cross my fingers for you!
Currently I am starting this journey😃 I enjoy your videos!
Best wishes Dionne!
Excellent. Thanks you.
Your technical videos are really getting good. I love technical - more of them please.
Thanks James.
Connect with this on a whole other level. Felt like this was made just for me. Honestly would love for more advice on the subject… maybe a part 2? Lol definitely a new subscriber!
Thanks Dominic! I'll definitely keep doing videos on backyard nursery topics to follow this up.
Glad to know I'm on the right track!
What a great video... have been watching you for a while and very excited because especially this particular video as I start a flower farm... I do agree with simple and easy. I have saved so many pots and get criticized for it..
Thanks Christien. Best of luck with your flower farm plans! I've seen some really successful growers go into cut flowers.
This was so encouraging. I feel like I’m on the right path according to your tips. Thank you.
Awesome! Best of luck with it Ashley!
Absolutely love spending time with you! You share so much great information and love for gardening
Inspiring words, sir. Thank you for sharing this.
My pleasure. Thanks for watching - I'm enjoying your channel too!
Outstanding Jason. You and I are about at the same point with our nurseries. I'm taking a big step opening my true retail nursery location this spring. This is happening after selling plants from my backyard, pop-up sales, and door to door. Conquering your fears and practicing the selling part is critical. All the best to your family as you continue to grow.
Thanks Tom. Good luck with your selling season. Slipping back into retail feels weird for me, but now that it's our own business I know we'll have a lot more fun!
You are an inspiration to a lot of things in life, Thank You
Thanks so much John! I appreciate the support.
Thank you for this video. I have just begun this journey and you are the voice of reason and hope I needed.
My pleasure - best wishes on your new venture, and let me know how it's going along the way.
Thank you for your videos! I have already started down our path of which having a small nursery is a part of the plan recently before finding your videos, but I sure wish I had found them sooner.
You give excellent advise and I agree with everything you said in this video. For anyone on the fence about starting your own business please know:
I am not where I can quit either of my full time jobs yet, and yes some days I am SO tired I can barely make myself keep going but inside I know I have to get away from working these two full time jobs surrounded by office politics of watching really nice, hard working people be stepped on by others for the other's benefit. It is killing me a little inside every day. My plants keep me going, and sometimes the sales are hit and miss, but stick with it. You can get to a better place! And I cannot emphasise enough, do not over invest, start small.
Thanks Amy - I agree with you completely. I always found it a good antidote to company BS to be working on something of my own on the side - whatever the scale. Now that I'm doing it full time, I'm finding it both challenging and satisfying. Who could ask for more?
great advice - I'm looking at doing something similar and it's great to have real-world pragmatic information!
Jason, I've enjoyed your videos well over a year or so. I wish I could support you with purchases, but alas, you are in Canada and I am in Texas. Your business seems to be flourishing! I've learned a lot from you. Thank you! 🌹
Thanks Suze. Your support here is more than enough.
I have fun growing well rooted roses but really don't have the touch of rooting from cuttings which requires tremendous commitment and nurturing ( after personally failed a thousand times, lol.) Accidental success happens for home gardeners that's for sure but to me, it really takes certain special people to be growers. SO my ultimate respect to all the growers out there !
Jason, I love watching your videos! I have watched you for a couple years now. I had my first official plant sale this year… It was a flop.. but that is ok! That is how we learn and grow! It gave me a feel of what works in my area. Since my April 6th sale, I tried a couple different tactics that gave me success! I am currently sold out of plants that I am willing to part with. I am propagating twice as much for next year plus adding a few more varieties to offer. Thanks for the advice and encouragement that your videos provide! I can’t quit my job yet but I’m well on my way!
Thank you for this! This video is exactly what I needed. I fell in love with gardening about 4 years ago and I had never been a gardener before or grew up learning it. It was all new to me. Fast forward to now & I decided to quit my job and give it a go. I am still very small scale but I know I will get there. I will be in my first market here in about 2/3 weeks and I’m terrified and excited at the same time. I can’t wait to keep learning and to join my local community.
Exciting to hear - I hope you find the market rewarding. I always come away with a far better idea of what customers are looking for if nothing else.
Great video, I live in Chilliwack and im going to be starting my own plants soon!
Each year, I learn more by doing things in my own garden. I tried so many plants and seeds to gain the experience. It is wonderful. Don't wait. Try more and do more so you can learn more about yourself. It is such a reward.
I do a three day perennial and succulents plant sale out of my yard every year. Have for last 22 years. I grow all the plants my self. Pot up about 1300 each year. Sell all but a couple hundred. Some years have less left over. It is work in April and May but we’ll worth it. Cost is minimal as I make my own compost and pot everything myself. Use recycled pots. Dig from my my own garden. Well worth the work.
That sounds like quite an event Joan! You must have a bit of a following locally with that kind of turnout.
New here, and just today I was thinking of propagating a willow tree I have and also an indoor plant thats been growing well. Along with some herbs.
I’ve never sold but after watching your video, I’m starting to see myself trying that.
Thank you for the video 😊
My pleasure - and best luck with your growing!
This is amazing and when you mentioned about not waiting until you are ready, I had to stop and think because my initial reaction was, I couldn't possibly begin now because of the need to pay down some debt. However, I remembered that in a way I have begun because I am currently growing fruits, veggies, berries, and herbs inside my apartment in grow tents to eat and sell at the farmer's market. I realized that I had started in a limited capacity without realizing it.
My mini garden is all I really want...I love watching my veggie plants sprout & my 5 roses bloom but for me it is a fun hobby. So I enjoy watching your videos and watching your roses, but have you ever done a time lapse video of your garden/farm? I would love to see that...Thanks Bev :)
Thanks. I have a camera for it - and I'll be trying it out shortly.
You had me 10 seconds in. Letter of resignation sent!
Nice!