Terrabyte Farm

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Archive for the 'Money Matters' Category

If your farm is not a major source of income, why do you do it? Why don’t you just go an buy food at the grocery store? Isn’t it a lot of work? Isn’t it expensive?

Friday, January 29th, 2010

We live on a farm because we love this lifestyle.  Some people love sports, others love reading, others love watching tv.  We love raising animals, DIY projects, and gardening.  We also REALLY love good food, and that means having really fresh ingredients, and there is nothing fresher than food you grow yourself.  We also like [...]

Do you have outside jobs, or do you live off of your farm income?

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

We have outside jobs.  Mike works full-time from home as a computer consultant and Jamie works (very) part-time as a psychologist.  There is no way we could live off of the income generated from our farm even if it was our full-time job.  And honestly, we have no real interest in doing that.  For now, [...]

The Cost of Things-Pigs

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

There is no question that to be successful at running a farm, you must run it like a business.  Now that we pretty much have all of the livestock that we are going to raise and have a good idea of what it costs to feed, shelter, and butcher them, we will be trying to [...]