Free Food: Turn Your Garden into a Business

We are in the most inflationary period in over fifty years. Due to multiple constraints with money-printing, the pandemic, and broken supply chains, food costs are increasing rapidly.

How will the average person survive this pricing war? We need to go back to our roots (pun intended) and live off of the Earth.

A few centuries ago, farming was a way of life for most people. You didn’t eat unless you grew the food yourself. Today, we depend on grocery stores to provide us with our food resources.

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Anyone can start a garden. I know what you are thinking? Josh, I can’t start a garden because I don’t have the space. That is why I read the book “Apartment Gardening.”

After reading this book, I know that almost every household can have some form of garden. You can start an herb garden or grow small plants like cherry tomatoes.

The idea is to start anything that can offset your food costs. We don’t know how long inflation will stay with us, but we can control specific prices.

We will be in good shape if we can reduce our food bills by 25% by growing cabbage, tomatoes, potatoes, herbs, cucumbers, etc.

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Feed your family first. The most important part of starting a garden is reducing your family’s dependence on Walmart and other grocery stores. 

We are at the point where even the grocery stores can’t control the costs of their supplies. The supply chain and logistics factors are out of their hands. 

Thus, we must start to eat more salads and greens. The secondary effect is we will also become more healthy along the way. I know that I have focused on eating salads over the last few months, saving money, and losing weight along the way.

We can even start our own worm farms that allow us to produce the best organic soil addictive, worm tea. Worms help us make the best compost and grow healthy, resistant plants and crops.  

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Sell the leftovers. The first way to make money from your garden is to sell the excess to neighbors. You don’t have to turn this into a mega income stream; just a “nice to have.” 

I wrote the “From Dirt to Dividends” series to explain turning your organic foods into permanent income streams. 

1. From Dirt to Dividends 1: Gardening & Preferred Shares
2. From Dirt to Dividends 2: Livestock & Closed-End Funds
3. From Dirt to Dividends 3: Insects & Business Development Companies
4. From Dirt to Dividends 4: Community Farming & Mortgage REITs
5. From Dirt to Dividends 5: Composting & Dividend ETFs
6. From Dirt to Dividends 6: Vermiculture & High-Yield Blue-Chip Companies

The idea is to make some cash from your garden and immediately invest it into high-yielding products on the stock market. Over time, you will build a nice nest egg and receive fantastic cash flow. 

People want to learn. I am surprised how many people don’t know anything about gardening. My grandparents had tons of apple and orange trees. They were always gardening even though they lived in the desert. 

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My wife always keeps a garden as well. She specializes in herbs, tomatoes, and cucumbers. We are also growing some fruit trees, albeit slowly. 

You can bring your gardening skills to the forefront. There will be an eager market of people who want to grow their own food sources. 

As much as I love talking about the Metaverse and decentralized finance, there is something about sustainable living, living below your means, and tidying up your lifestyle. 

Living a “clean” life will make a massive comeback as inflation, mass layoffs, and a recession come to the entire world. This recession will be global, and no one will be immune to its effects. 

Share your journey. Even if you know nothing about gardening, start creating content today. In fact, it’s almost better when you start with little knowledge. 

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Your target audience will know nothing about gardening, so following your journey will be essential to begin their quests. By documenting your entire path, you give them actionable steps to follow.

When I started writing about personal finance, I had $20,000 in investments and $70,000 in debt. I have $200,000 in paper assets and zero debt three years later. 

My Financial Independence Magazine (now on issue #75) is my step-by-step journey into the world of passive income. Everything I learn, I document through words. You can similarly document your experiences.

A growing business. There are many ways to create income streams from your garden. You can start a blog, which will take a while to grow. 

Blogs are tough to get started but stick with it. If you can ride the wave for a few years, it will reward you with truly passive income. This magical income comes from free search traffic using search engine optimization techniques. 

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Inside your blog, you can use affiliate marketing to recommend products like gardening tools, seeds, and other food-related products. 

Garden consulting. You can offer local fans the ability to contract your services. You can go to their homes and assist them with starting their gardens. Of course, they will pay you handsomely for your consulting services. 

Again, I am surprised just how many people do not know about gardening. It has become a lost art, and those that can master building an audience will come out on top. 

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Conclusion. The world will never be the same after this recession. We are moving into a more isolated, technical world. 

Therefore, we will work in the metaverse and tend our gardens after work. With gas prices moving higher permanently, driving will become a luxury.

We will soon need to learn how to generate our power, grow our food, and purify our water. Even if we do this to supplement what we receive from our local utilities, it will be vital to our existence.

We cannot depend 100% on anyone for our power, food, and water. Times are changing—as we become more advanced, we are also moving backward. Starting a garden and sharing your experience is a huge leap in the right direction. Good Luck!

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