10 Side Hustles from the Garden - Ep. 208

Okay, so maybe you’ve heard the origin story of how I started gardening and then came to be a market farmer which lead to me getting a degree in horticulture which led to me doing this podcast. The short story is I had a really successful, very large, garden and I was sick of being stuck inside all the time working my day job and tried to find a way to make some side money from the garden, and the rest is history.
Maybe you’ve been in the same position. A lot of gardeners do really, really well a couple seasons in a row and realize just how much they enjoy being in the garden and growing things and know they could grow more and then maybe daydream about setting up a little stand at the end of the driveway once a week or going to the local farmer’s market and setting up a table there or doing weekly garden boxes in a community supported agriculture or subscription style.
None of those things are far-fetched and I’ve seen folks just pop in once or twice a season at the smaller markets around town with a table full of nothing but the zucchini that has gone gang busters in the garden or the pumpkins that they grew way too many of. I’ve also seen gardeners take it one step further and increase the size of the garden and grow things specifically to take to market every week.
Unfortunately, I’ve also seen some of these same gardeners be extremely disappointed that they didn’t sell out of that bounty of zucchini or that they planned for so many offerings at the market but almost none of the produced like they’d hoped and they didn’t really have much to sell. Would you believe me if I told you selling the produce from your garden isn’t the only way to make money from it?
Today on Just Grow Something we are talking ten different ways you can make money from your garden and only a couple of them involve selling the actual fruits and veggies. This is a very high-level look at the options you have so you can start thinking about what might actually fit into your lifestyle. Because, let me tell you, after 17 seasons of selling every week at the farmer’s market, it is hard work, and there are definitely other options available to you. Let’s dig in!

[@anniefrankenstein1989]

I'm in season 12 of my farm and garden work and season 2 of trying to bring in a piece of the pie with it- Im definitely going to borrow a couple of these ideas I had not thought of that I can see being really useful for me. Great video ty,

[@justgrowsomething]

I'm so glad you found it helpful! Good luck!