Absolutely not! Mini farming uses entirely different techniques that are based on intensive agriculture that make maximum use of space. Typical yields are in the neighborhood of $5 to $8 of economic value per square foot planted. It is also adapted to be time-efficient for people who already work full-time jobs.<\/p>\n
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You can certainly get a basic idea of the techniques from looking at this website. But, overall, the principles and techniques are most highly developed in our book; Mini Farming, which is available from many brick-and-mortar stores and online retailers starting in April.<\/p>\n
Also, if you have any questions, I will answer them as I can via our contact form. I’m always happy to help.<\/p>\n
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Mini Farming is primarily different from gardening in terms of attitude<\/em>. That is, gardening is a hobby that is usually a break-even affair financially at best; whereas mini-farming is undertaken from day-one as an economic enterprise whose intent is to be a net economic positive.<\/p>\n One of the most common questions I get is how Mini Farming is different from gardening, or whether it is just a scaled-down version of industrial agriculture.<\/p>\n The primary difference between these other forms of agriculture and Mini Farming is attitudinal. Mini Farming is not a hobby. It is undertaken with a specific economic objective. Unlike a garden, even if the food is produced only for your household, it is run like a business. By that I mean that conscientious efforts are made to adopt methods and materials that minimize costs and labor while maximizing productivity.<\/p>\n Unlike industrial agriculture, the focus in a Mini Farm is sustainability. The whole idea is to move food production local; so outside inputs are minimized. An industrial farm might adopt a labor-intensive method that makes economic sense only because of the ability to import immigrant labor at $2\/hour; or it might adopt a fertilizer-intensive approach that only makes sense with a specific variety of a given crop. Mini farming focuses on building and then maintaining long-term soil fertility using natural processes. By doing this, even if there is no fertilizer to be had or a specific plant variety becomes unavailable, your food output isn’t compromised.<\/p>\n The idea, too, is self-sufficiency. The future holds economic turmoil from a lot of different directions and the impacts and timing are unpredictable. You want to be able to supply a vital necessity for yourself and your family without being inordinately dependent on materials being trucked in from 1500 miles away or shipped on a slow boat from China. The more you can do yourself, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is mini-farming just scaled-down industrial agriculture? Absolutely not! Mini farming uses entirely different techniques that are based on intensive agriculture that make maximum use of space. Typical yields are in the neighborhood of $5 to $8 of economic value per square foot planted. It is also adapted to be time-efficient for people who already work […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markhamfarm.com\/mainsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/h2>\n
What Makes Mini Farming Tic?<\/h2>\n