Unlock the Secret to Maximum Profits: The Top 5 Most Lucrative Crops for Market Gardeners Revealed!
This Video is from the Youtube channel: “Off-Grid with Curtis Stone”.
Ready to unlock the secret to maximum profits? Here are the top 5 most lucrative crops for market gardeners that can transform your farming business. Join Curtis Stone as he reveals the carefully curated selection of crops that offer the best returns on your investment of time and effort. You don’t want to miss out on this valuable insight into growing high-demand, high-profit crops that can make a significant difference in your farming success!
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About Curtis Stone:
Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.
The abundance of value you give to so many of us for free is nothing short of amazing Curtis. Thank you for what you’re doing for the planet and the people, and thanks to your wife who let’s it all go down and probably helps behind the scenes too.
Support him if you appreciate his resources.
Where does he order seeds
you know youtube pays him for views right? 1.9 million he probably made 10g off this video alone.
@Travis Prugh no matter. The content is awesome
When I see these vedios of people planting health fruits and vegetables and spices it takes me back to song of Solomon Cheaper 4 verse 14 where my parents got my name Saffron from 73 years ago.
Thank you for the video it was very spiritual 🙏 for me
Jesus had Cooking Chef’s And they cook delicious food with his precious spices…He would feed his people from his garden he called his garden the garden of life…
May God bless the people who works these gardens 🙏
Thank you for the updated information you give in this video. I say it every year, but I really need to get to planting more of these crops!
Great content. My experience is identical to yours. Spinach and salad mix just fly off my table at market. I’ve also had GREAT success selling a crop called red orach at market. On the hakurei turnips…I’ve been eating my tops at home and just started tossing the smaller leaves into my spicy mix, which is mostly mustards, arugula, turnip tops and some smaller fraction of auxiliary greens. it’s a little bit of hand work to trim and wash the tops, but l’m selling it for over $10 per pound, so it’s close to free money.
Curtis, you’re a saint! All the education you’ve provided me over the years is just phenomenal. Thank you sir, thank you.
You’re welcome.
Urban Farmer Curtis Stone where do you sell this
Jeff Fountain Indeed.
Very kind of him to share his knowledge.
@Off-Grid with Curtis Stone support him if you appreciate him.
Keep growing the legacy! I don’t sell from
my gardens but I’ve improved them to the point people want to buy from them because they look so good. My number one source for gardening info- your book is on my desk at all times for reference.
Love your video ! I am clueless….never grown anything but I am teachable. I look forward to watching your other videos. I especially need to learn how to get started in my grass covered backyard. I would LOVE to do that for a living !!!! Thx !!!
Number 5 seems a bit more risk/challenge resource and labor intensive when compared to your other four crops. I’m guessing because you have a consistent buyers for said crop that it’s worth the risk/extra labor that goes with it. If you had to replace that particular crop, would you find another niche market or fill it in with one of your other staple crops?
Great job using that space for more than just grass and making a living too! This is great news. I was hoping but didn’t know you could do it. Something that you might like too is symbiotic planting (my term). I’m not sure what it’s popular name is right now, but I was talking with a guy that was studying Horticulture at CSU Fort Collins and they were learning which plants fend off which type of pests. You can research the details, but the basics are, bugs hate “stinky” plants or plants that have very strong smells: Marigolds, Camphor, Lemon Grass, Mint, Cilantro, Iris’, Garlic, Onions, Eucalyptus, Spruce, (Yes, you can utilize your trees, too!), etc. This also applies to under the ground as with the Iris, Onion, etc.. The Iris is used to keep the potatoe bug at bay, I believe, , while an onion or some other type of strong smelling bulb would keep away the blood worm from turnips or something. there is tremendous symmetry and precision in when to plant which crop to keep their partner crop’s nemesis pest at bay or in some cases, dead, while the other crop keeps it’s nemesis pest at bay and also allows you to harvest the 1st one while the second one is still underground, then switch and harvest that one while the other recovers etc. Sometimes they use more than 2 in the rotation, sometimes some of them might be perennials planted down a ridge in between the rows, etc. Hope this helps. This is restoring a little bit more balance, or “Shalom” to this planet, one home and property at a time. Great job. 🙂
His opinion on the 5 most profitable crops:
1. Salad Mix
2. Microgreens (Sunflower Shoots & Pea Shoots)
3. Arugula
4. Spinach
5. White Salad Turnip
You’re welcome.
Not all heroes wear capes
Issack Vaid my hero
GJ: now can you fill in $ amounts over number of harvests for bed and include DTM’s? And please editorialize about sales channels, uses, best markets for each crop and crop-specific info about pests.
THX
Yay no need to watch this dude talk!
For the worms you can use Nurelle D, a cap in a bucket of water or mix it whit water and use when you water the plants. Quarantine period is 14 days, but when it goes to the roots i think at least 20 days. It will kill any bug in the soil.
I am not farming for money, but I just learned that I have been harvesting my greens WRONG. Another great video even if you are not farming to make money. I want to feed my family from my garden for as long as possible throughout the year. Great list of tasty, cost effective crops.
I did that and made all my babies baby food. Grandparents’ kids produce from their garden too. My kids never ate anything out of a jar.
I have spent days trying to learn about urban farming. You are THE first person I actually enjoy listening to. Great information, you get right to the point, and no product plugs. +1 Sub right here!
+Edina Hodos thank you. I do plug products that I use though. Just FYI.
Thanks for providing an interesting video with loads of detail and tips to help others try the same approach to market gardening in their area. Of course, like anything else, the details often have to be adjusted to each location, (not everyone enjoys a year ’round growing season!), but the info you provide will give people a great start.
Mushrooms will work well for many people, especially if they have access to freshly cut wood, just to name one alternate crop
It is a bit sad to see the industrial farming mindset, even on a small scale… but this is a way better way to raise food than the way most food Americans eat is grown. Kudos for finding a way to make it work for you financially – and helping others to figure that part out, too.
Sadly, in many places growing food as row crops like this is not allowed, especially in front yards. Food plants can usually be grown as part of an ornamental landscape. Especially if people look into the edible ornamental plants – hosta leaves (especially the thinner, non ‘quilted’ types) make tasty, tender salad leaves and wraps for those avoiding grain; redbud tree flowers, leaves, and pods are edible and tasty; daylily blossoms, buds, and shoots are all delicious…. I understand the focus on familiar crops, but some of us are sooooooo tired of all the usual, boring veg.
From Video:
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Beds are 50 feet, salanova greens great!
2. Microgreens: Pea shoots &a sunflower shoots
3. Arugula
5. Spinach
4. Tokyo turnips, hakarai or white salad turnips (be sure to use insect netting)
Thanks !
I’m new to this channel. Currently working towards starting my own farm. This channel has provided an incredible amount of knowledge. Thanks for all you do.
This is awesome, thanks for the info and inspiration. I have recently done a lot of soul searching and after learning to grow shiitake and oyster mushrooms for fun I have decided to not pursue my career further in healthcare(which I hate) and focus on starting a small farm(my passion) business focusing on mushrooms but I was also wanting to grow arugula and other salad greens as well. This is truly an inspiration for people like me who are on the fence about following their passions.
How are you doing with growing mushrooms and salad greens? Hope your business is thriving.
The information you are willing to put out there is always so invaluable.
Keep up the excellent work !
I love two things in farming, I love seeing how amazing it is the fast gowing and multiplication of seeds, in some cases they can multiplicate 5X, 10X, 100X or more I think. And I love to see when we plant 1 time and we harvest many times in very shot periods of time. Absolutly amazes me. I’m thinking about starting some small vertical farming business here in Portugal, I don’t know yet what I want to cultivate. Anyone has some quick advice for me?
Thanks for sharing all of those numbers!!! I don’t have a yard, so I’m forced to grow inside, but I can do 4 lbs per shelf per month on a 5 shelf wire rack, 20 lbs per month per rack and I can harvest more than 3 cycles and it takes around 14 days per cycle. It’s a 48″ wide rack, so 20ft of total shelf space per rack. Not as good as doing it outdoors, but if you don’t have the option, it’s pretty decent. Thanks again, I was wondering how my numbers compared to the pros!
In my experience. A backyard nursery is 10 times more profitable. Landscapers and plant brokers ALWAYS need plants. You don’t even need to stress finding costumers. Unlike the food crop world. Lots and lots of competition. But not with nursery stock. I was selling all through Covid. And extremely easy. Especially small trees. They only need attention 5 months a year in the PNW. I also collect native trees and shrubs from the mountains and sell those all winter. Alpine fir, alpine hemlock, pine, vine maple. My only expense is burlap and twine. About 200 bucks total for the whole season.
Don’t you need a permit to sell plants? And isn’t it illegal to take plants from the forest? Not that anybody would likely see you, I just believe there are laws in my state that would prevent me from doing this.
@ajhomesteadlife If you need a permit to sell plants in your state then you should leave that state.
You do need a business license to sell plants, and you just get permits for national forests and logging properties like I do. It’s so uncommon now to harvest wild plants. I sell thousands of collected vine maples every year in Seattle. They grow like blackberries here and everyone loves them because you can not grow multi stem vine maple. It only exists in the wild, same reason I sell alpine trees to landscapers for top top dollar. The reason they are alpine trees is because they grow in 5000+ feet, and can not be nursery grown. It’s very easy my friend. I’ve been doing it for many years from November to May. @AJ’s Herbs
Hey Whenmountainsmove
Can I message you somewhere theres a lot of alpine trees in my country like 50-70% of the country is covered in alpine trees.