$100k/Acre Using Human Scale Methods with Frith Farm 

Well, it's also probably a tax write-off if it's for the crew. :)

​@@jamesbernsen3516 then again, most employees don't get a sauna out of their employer's tax write-offs

@@jamesbernsen3516 sure. do you know how many companies don't even invest in their employees no matter the tax writeoff?

A food law what is that if it's your land you can do what ever you want to do as long as you're not hurting anyone else and it's your God giving right to feed yourself

@@flintstone4208they say you’re hurting others when you sell it and will raid Amish farms selling unpasteurized milk with swat teams. Yeah it is your right but that only works if you can fight off the entire federal government over selling some milk.

Check his farm website. Just search Frith Farm. I've been looking at it, thinking about trying to implement something similar for myself, but with my own style. He has a lot more information on there than I expected.

I’ve seen a farmer with a similar setup with 3/4 an acre by holding 35 hours a week making 6 figures.

yea but you gotta think, youve probably got most of your food and housing cost down quite low by eating and living on the farm

I don't know if he meant 100k/acre/year or 100k/acre/season and if that's season, they might make 300K/year. But even if it's 100K/year, most of the labor is only part-time and generally for a shorter period, like 6-9 months a year of which most of it is part time. ~30K/year is not bad really, especially for the people living in the farm.

Most of those expenses should be tax deductible as a business though

I was wondering too what the actual profit was per acre vs what is earned. If it costs 75k an acre then the profit is only 25k. Not bashing, I would really like to know because I have 20 acres here on my place I would like to monetize.

Amazing, thank YOU!

For heavy clay I dug trenches burying layers of leaves, chicken coupe cleanouts, mulch, and composted soil. Done in fall then tilled in spring after winter in Upstate NY. When tilled it broke up nicely. Then during planting paths of mulch to walk on. All natural additions to generate more bio activities. Our clay would either drowned the plants or bake hard as rock. It's getting much better now, no chemicals but I do till or mix it to further disperse the added matter.

@@eas-eautocom4871 Getting our soil broken up. We do add chicken manure as well as manure from the goats and rabbits. As far as leaves we only have one tree and now working on a second one. Might need to explore the idea and trenches, Thank You for the post!

Thank YOU!

Currently, that is what "Real Organic" is. I think they took a shot of the logo early in this video.

Hi, it stands for community supported agriculture. A person pre pays for a share of the harvest, this helps the farmer have the funds to get it started. The share is usually just based off of how well the crops are doing at that time. How he is doing it is you buy units per week. Sounds like a small is 6 and large is 12. Since his is pickup only, he has everything labeled how much one unit is since it's always a different amount.

they only work seasonally.....did you listen? 33k/year isnt great.....but 33k/summer isnt bad.....(not saying they get all 33, but still)

Apprinticeship. Kids just out of school. Part timers. All kinds of ways to do it. Crew also lives on the farm so they work off their room and board. Theres no commute. Thatll add up to a lot of savings there. Like when I was living in the barracks in the Army. Just looking at net pay it didnt look like much but I didnt have rent or utilities coming out of that and the motor pool, chow hall and most things were in walking distance so it was actually pretty good given net vs cost of living.

they cover the beds with screened compost. Depending on the availability of QUALITY compost in your area, that can be a difficult and expensive system to work with (and usually involves a little, very shallow cultivation/tillage (less than an inch)). Compost in my area is neither finished, clean (asphalt and trash), of any sort of quality, nor affordable... so I went another way. It does work, but it has to fit your context in order for it to do so. By using rotations of high-residue cover crops, I have found that you can have the soil be quite soft without tillage. It's not the same kind of tilth like you get with tillage (or by using tens of cubic yards of surface applied compost per acre, annually), but it also doesn't crust over or compact like tilled soil (or compost) does either. Most small-scale farming/gardening tools are made with use in tillage systems in mind, so your tools and methods end up looking different when you go into a no-till system. Look up Helen Atthowe and the systems she's played with over the decades as an alternative to compost mulching. I was playing with a lot of ideas for a few years and just happened to find her and her late husband's work, and it lines up pretty well with what I've found.

Matt

Human Scale YouTubing haha

Amazing! Thank you!

they dont work all year...he said there are 3 seasons.....if they only work 4-6 months a year....changes the calculus, doesnt it?

Amazing! Thank you!