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Hey guys, I'm starting a farm right now! To be clear building a farm is a SERIOUS endeavor. Sure, it sounds romantic, but it's a shit ton of very rewarding dirty work. Not for the faint of heart.
I managed a clam farm owned by some assholes for the past 2.5 years growing the Sunray Venus clams in the picture, but they shut that down. Right now I'm pulling a year's worth of work off the bottom and throwing it right into a dumpster.... it's the side of capitalism no one wants to talk about: big company comes in, fucks up the market, pisses people off, doesn't make the easy money they want, shuts down, gets sued by at least 4 people.... Anyways, fuck them, I'm done with that bullshit.
Here in Florida, you lease underwater land from the state for like $50/year, so for about $9,000 my girlfriend and I are starting our farm. This includes a boat, nets, harvest gear and seed clams. We're starting off small, just a couple day's work a month so we can still work full-time jobs elsewhere, but should make at least $25,000 our first crop cycle to reinvest in the company. We won't be full-time clam farmers for 3 years, but we're funding this 100% ourselves, no loans at all.
Sorry for the long post, I put a 5-year business plan together recently and just started my LLC, so this has been on my mind non-stop for a couple weeks now. It's exciting stuff going into business for yourself. Agriculture needs smart young people getting into growing things to improve the system, come up with new ideas and adapt one of the oldest industries to the modern era. For decades schools have said "go to college so you can get a real job and not shovel cow poop on your daddy's farm" when they should have been saying "go to college so you can build a robot to shovel that cow shit for you while you attend to more important issues". THE WORLD NEEDS FARMERS OR WE'LL ALL STARVE!!! and aquaculture can be our answer.
