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Potatoes. Lot of potatoes. Good yield, not a lot of work, long conservation, lot of way to consume, vodka friendly. And you can sell excess easily I think. And also parsley and garlic. Good to add with potatoes.

I do have a small farm (though it's still not anywhere near being a primary source of income).

• jalapenos
• anything hotter that will grow up here (I need to get a heated mat for starting seeds)
• sweet peppers
• tomatoes
• cucumbers
• kohlrabi
• various beans
• carrots
• beets
• potatoes
• various varieties of cabbage
• hakusai (Chinese cabbage in English, IIRC)
• bok choi
• eggplant
• broccoli (regular and stick)
• cauliflower
• kabocha
• other squashes
• various herbs
• radishes
• blueberries
• biwa (loquat)
• ume (plum)
• kaki (persimmon variety)
• onions (both Japanese and yellow, white, and red)
• okra

and I'm sure more I'm forgetting. I don't use chemical pesticides so a lot of the brassicas don't end up doing well. It's also why I gave up on corn because it will not do well without pesticides here. I live in northern Japan but coastal so I have more moderate weather. Still, peppers don't like to do anything naturally until July or August and don't do well in our rainy season (which we are still in this year, unfortunately)

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Goats (milk, cheese, lawn care), alpacas (wool), and maybe a few bee hives for honey to make mead. But I don’t know how to properly care for any of these creatures so it’s best I leave it to those who do.

Dank, beans and chilis.

Strawberries. They are the best taste to effort and cost of what little grows here in the north.

Potato is an option but they are cheap at the store.

Peppers and chili is an option but they require a greenhouse to stand a chance.

I'd not bother keeping animals unless I intended to make it a bigger part of my income. Can't just fuck off for a week and do something else. Chickens would be the first contender if I did though

I suppose you could call my place a small farm.

We got 4 runner ducks that lay eggs like crazy and keep the bugs down for the garden.

Last year raised 10 turkeys for meat.

For fruit: Strawberries

Blueberries

Blackberries

Thimble berries

Salmonberries

Elderberries

Apples

Cherries

The garden:

Potatoes

Leeks

Peas

Green beans

Collard greens

Mustard greens

Kale

Brussels sprouts

Broccoli

Zucchini

Tomatoes

Sweet potatoes

Radishes

Beets

Didn't have success with everything and most of those are still going.

I also harvest the stinging nettle that grows all over the property. There's also crayfish in the creek on the property.

Goats, pigs, your mom. But I’d need a few hectares for the latter. 😁

Probably what I'm gardening now, but more? Tomatoes. Strawberries. Pickling cucumbers. Jalapeños.

Figs. Straight figs. They're delicious, they sell for a decent price because finding ripe figs at the supermarket is practically impossible, and they're easily propagated by cuttings, which sell for a decent amount of money.

I love figs so much.

Next is corn, but not sweet corn. Field corn , what's used to make corn flour, masa, grits, etc. there are many varieties, like Blue corn, purple corn, and red corn, all of which are healthy and taste fantastic. You can use purple corn to make chicha morada, a Peruvian drink. Just keep in mind the kernels are seeds and therefore representative of the two parent plants. If you plant different types together, like blue and red, and they cross pollinate, the resultant corn kernels will be a variety of blue, red, and hybrid blue/red.

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Apples and Bees. Although where I live there’s plenty of orchards and they produce some stunning Honey. So it would be more of a personal thing where I’d produce apple cider and meads for the long winter nights.

I would just extend what I am trying to do with my yard to make a food forest. So some more perennial fruiting and nut trees and perennial berry bushes. Really try the permaculture thing with lots of little harvest instead of a few big ones.

I have been loving growing herbs both culinary and medicinal. My yard gets enough to craft remedies for my should but it would be a great way to make some cash if you get some perennial herbs set up for regular harvesting and drying. I might try to sell calendula but I would really need to get good at starting from seed. But there's money in that.

The last few days I've been craving cloudberry and fantasising about growing them at home, so...

Grow: fat
Keep: to myself

• pine nuts
• ostriches
• bees

In a fantasy sense, I'd love to have sheep and donkeys, grow herbs and mushrooms, and make cheese (with vegan rennet).

Just fruits and veggies. Don’t want to take care of animals. We did that when I was a kid and it’s a lot more work than plants. The things that want to get to those animals…. Nah man.

Chili. Definitely chili, a few type of it. It take small land to produce a lot of it, and chili also sell in high price per kg.

Also okra, bittergourd, pineapple

I'd love to be able to grow what I eat every day:

Onions
Carrots
Broccoli
Spinach
Brussel Sprouts
Tomatoes

Chickens

I have no idea how to do this, and I don't think I'd be very good at it.

Corn, squash, beans. Maybe some hanging tomatoes.

I’d rescue farm animals from the animal ag industry. I’ve been to all the farm sanctuaries here and I love it. They could live their lives free of pain and suffering

For context, I have animals, bee hives, a large vegetable/herb/fruit garden and a medium plot that I rotate crops in every season.

Well small to tiny personal farms; you’ll want to grow the things you like to eat. Just skip the staple crops (wheat,rice, potatoes, beans) as they are dirt cheap and not worth the trouble (except at scale)

Various spice and herb plants so I can enjoy them. I'm not sure what grows in my climate but anything would be nice fresh.

Cows and grain. Mostly because I already know how.

I may be a well paid tech guy today, but I'll always be a hick and a yokel at heart.

Fennel, it grows well for me and is a premium crop, and maybe Stokes Purple sweet potatoes and okra.

But really, fennel because it is reasonably well compensated and the only thing I grow the bugs ignore. Hong Tsoi is vigorous for me but doesn't cost as much.

If you have room for animals, figure out what people will pay for and raise those. I have no idea on that.

I'm lucky enough to have a job that pays well where I work from home and don't have to stick to a schedule so my little farm doesn't have to provide any real monetary value and just gives us decent food stability and good will with neighbors.

We just moved here last year so were still getting set up, but so far we have a dozen pear and apple trees, tomatoes, too much zucchini, an assortment of peppers, eggplant, bush beans, 1/8th of an acre of potatoes and a 1/4 acre of pumpkin and squash. Once the squash bed is done I'll fill it with onions and garlic to overwinter. We also have a nice little flock of quail for eggs.

If we had more room I would love to expand everything, plant a lot more fruit bushes and trees, get some ducks and chickens, maybe a couple goats and a donkey

It depends of you want money or satisfaction?

If it's money then the answer is going to be boring: find a cash crop that grows and sells well in your area and grow that. Here it's garlic.

If it's satisfaction then IDK honestly. Probably a bike track for my kids. I'd grow veggies but avoid livestock.

Clearly corn and beans.