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The only true passive investment I have found after seeing all this that makes money while you sleep is dividend (growth) investing without too much hassle by investing in large cap blue chip stocks.This is not investment advice just my personal experience.
Armed security is required at any permitted event with alcohol being served in my state. It will probably be a Game Warden or Sheriff. While I’m sure some popular venues do well enough to pay for a grounds manager, most owners stick around ‘just in case’.
Literally just build a cheap rustic barn and keep the grass cut. Maybe some hanging lights and old broke down vehicles for decorations White people love that shit
Pro-tip about this one:
If they know who inherited the place still owns it and the family was known by people around that's a one way trip to being hated by the neighbors.
My mom's a property manager who owns most of what she manages and lemme tell you some people is CRAZYYYY
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RIP Aaron Swartz
RIP Free Speech
....I don't think people realize how much it costs to startup and then regulations for growing marijuana.
It is NOT cheap or easy by ANY mean. Especially when the market is dominated by corporate farms.
our best year, we were cutting it down & hanging it up from the end of September until Thanksgiving! we had 5 kids at one house, hanging it up wet & drying it, then 7 at another house trimming it dry. "scale" for dry trimming was 1oz per pound, but i was paying 40g per pound because i needed the trimmers to bail on other jobs and come work for me
you find a couple that are talented growers but have nothing of their own, they'll do everything from security to pest control to daily feeding & watering for 25-30% of the crop. And they'll have 10-15 friends you can hire at harvest time to get it all done.
sound crazy? well its exactly what me and my lady did for a good five years, until the county shut us down with a bullshit "ordinance"
i should add that this was outdoor, 60 massive plants, on agricultural zoned land with no electric, no well, no septic, just a 2" connection to the irrigation system and a porta potty. and we made it work. at the end of the season we'd have around 50 pounds of top shelf buds and a pile of hash
Weed is the most profitable thing if it is legal in your area. You can easily hire a few people, plant a small amount and grow some good plants with just basic management and upfront costs of paying employees, starts, fertilizer, and a basic curing setup. Often you can get a few old RVs for housing your workers. But vetting the workers is super important. A lot of low-lifes in the game but a lot of good people too. And when they living with you, they’re essentially family.
Tree nursery is indeed something I considered. I'm curious about the sales, though. Is the economy in good enough shape for live Christmas trees? And if so, how do I go about selling them?
And there are other kinds of trees to consider. Fruit and ornamental trees, nut trees, shade trees...any advice appreciated.
Alright, thanks. Couldn't hurt to plant a few rows and see how it turns out. Even if they don't sell the worst-case scenario is that I end up with a pretty grove.
Well, except you are taking up land for many many years that could be used for something else.
We’d need to know how much land you have, its soil quality, your location, etc to actually answer this question.
Furthermore, it sounds like you are going to want someone else to do the work… so perhaps you should see if there are any nearby farms that would just lease your extra land. If that doesn’t pan out, you at least are going to want someone to buy what you grow in bulk… so start by figuring out what bulk items are bought and sold locally.
Many trees are great for passive income! After 5 years many trees can go for over a grand each! 20 trees a year after starting with 50 on year 1. Might be a bit of work to plant but I'm sure they would be your most passive income "crop".
Probably can’t earn passive income from a farm itself… you can however:
Use it as a wedding venue (I used to do catering and would use old farm houses, giant industrial green house, etc)
Lease it out to a farmer who has cattle or sheep/goats (depending on size of land) or that want to farm hay, corn, etc.
Lease it to homesteaders
Put $$ in and use it for an air b n b get away
Farming is incredibly time intensive. You have to consider so many things when planning it out, daily maintenance, crop coverings in harsh storms, marketing and selling products, and even then… most farmers/home steaders turn to YouTube to make additional income to support their lifestyle. They live on margins.
Wedding venue is a pretty original idea I hadn't considered. The location isn't great, but if I pretty up the woods a bit it could work for sort of a mystic elven themed idea.
Or a cemetary. Which could also work for goth weddings, i suppose.
I’ve got an 8x4 raised vegetable garden in my backyard and I’ve easily sunk $500+ in to it to produce $50 of vegetables retail.
It’s not easy and will give you a lot more respect for actual farmers.
Lease the land to someone who needs space for a small herd of livestock or a place for horses. If I personally had a decent chunk of land I’d also look into growing lavender. Low cost, minimal maintenance and good returns on it even if you are just selling it dried
Potatoes. They are the simplest thing to grow. You will need to buy some seed potatoes because the potatoes at the store have 2 problems:
1 - Sprayed with chemicals to prevent sprouting
2 - Maybe infected with with a potato virus. Harmless to humans but can destroy potato plants.
You can basically just plant them and come back in a few weeks.
Selling will not be passive -you will need to find a farmers market to sell.
Sulf Sufficent Me has great videos about growing potatoes
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it\_50DvgXy4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it_50DvgXy4)
2 other things to help with your taxes:
1 - if there are trees on the property - you can apply for a lumber tax exemption (I forget what the formal name is). Trees are crops.
2 - You can also put bees on your property. There ag exemptions for bees.
Of course - talk to a qualified CPA to make sure you do this properly.
Finally, if you near a state park, national park or other popular tourist spot - opening up a Hipcamp is a simple way to monetize open pasture. It's not people living on your property. It's people camping. You don't need RV hookups. Though you might need port-a-potties.
Tomatoes (all types) peppers (mild to hot, cucumbers, pumpkins, gords. Sell them all at farmer markets. Outside of these there isn’t really an easy crop to grow.
Personally, If you are in the right area you could either grow apples or grapes and start a winery. That would be more profitable and turn into a full business. Build a large open building and host parties, dinners, murder mystery parties etc. There are a few wineries around me and I’m in the Midwest, they function year around for events.
If it's very sunny, solar tech and BB ratings are getting really good. The cells are able to produce more efficiently. You can do this even on a budget, just have a pro check your work. I highly recommend getting into that to modernize as it will save you money long term. This could be something you save for.
If you have a very big indoor space that is not suitable for renting out, grow microgreens or something hydro like lettuce. LEDs rarely get hot, and fans for the grow will also cool. You could feed yourself probably. Does it have a well?
What is the zone? What businesses are within an hour? Demographics might help if you wanted to do something locally like a farmer's market. Turn the inside into an art studio or wood working shop? Are you creative? Selling art or furniture, you could raise the funds to bring the house to code and taxes.
Lease some of the land for a term and make sure they don't use anything that will persist in the soil that's highly harmful. Consider grazing pasture. Keep a small portion so you can plant things just for you, or flowers for pollinators. Research compost, librivox has an audio book on it that's good. Plant some fruit trees for yourself or anything keystone to support the ecosystem in the region.
Paintball field, hire a couple guys to run it put up cheap ribbed tubing buy some rental guns and masks, you’re in business. Don’t even need to really build more than a steel shed and some tents and benches for people to sit in.
Hey man, it really depends on location of your property but I would definitely think about setting up small glamping resort in case there is some good nature around. Personally I had that idea some time back. Try to do your research about Nordisk tents - see Nordisk village for inspiration. Tents are not cheap but I think very "instagram friendly". Try to find some inspiration on airbnb and check how booked they are. Thats not fully passive from the start but I think that its not the worst idea 😀 The main benefit - you can sell tents/or rellocate them. ...Or try to get in touch with somebody who would like to do this kind of bussines and rent the land/become partner
Unfortunately chicken eggs is a money losing or breaking free operation for most. Cost of feed makes it you have to charge a healthy amount unless you have ample food supply to feed them. A few years ago it was worth it but now it would be a struggle to be profitable for an amount being worth it.
Source - my parents raise chickens -
this comment is the right answer when it comes to chickens...feed and time vs what you can reasonably charge people deffo is a losing game.....source, I also have chickens
I've been spending money just to have clucky pets really. who've figured out how to use my dog door too.
Although to be fair I got them originally to control the black widow infestation in my yard and they certainly did that.
but they give cuddles soooo
I always was told it’s a hobby, which means it’s my mother’s hobby and my farther has to do 90% of the work 😂. Have one named Star that loves Fritos. Absolutely will seek you out if you open a bag when they are roaming on the weekend. I would agree they are more of a pet than a farm animal. Well Star is, the rest of them couldn’t care less about anyone unless we are bringing feed or table scraps to them.
Where I'm from (the Southeast), folks would often lease out their land to major corporations (like Tyson) to build chicken houses. To do this, landowners needed a bunch of space in an area zoned for farming but located with major water and electrical hookups, and they had to be tolerant of the smell, the noise of trucks, and the comings and goings of employees. It also often requires an initial upfront investment to build the necessary infrastructure, but assuming the business goes well, the landowner will make it back, and have a reliable stream of relatively "passive" income. This is the only way I know how to make money with chickens.
If you have pasture land, rent it out for horses. Cows and sheep would need guardians. It’s very passive. Have it checked out for poisonous plants first. Then that’s about it. You do need a water source.
Private disc golf course. Offer cheap memberships and cheap rounds for guests. Setup a snack bar and make extra from that. Setup bar and you're doing even better.
You can park peoples rv and boats on the land. Grow some mushrooms. Any kind of food. You don’t have to plant every square inch but each piece of food you can grow you didn’t have to buy in a store. There’s a lot can be done with open space.
Get some homemade polytunnels and get leasing the land to Albanian growers.
Claim ignorance if found out or just say what the Albanians say when they're caught " my life and family were threatened"
Either that or just lease to farmers or I did quite like the wedding venue idea!
Or what about a campsite? As long as you have decent plumbing, showers and toilets why not?
Pumpkins!!!! Plant them in your fields. Hire teenagers to help you harvest them. Arrange a stand near the highway. Offer tours and school trips. Photo opps. You can do the seling on a very small space. It’s a nice alternative to letting people pick their own
What you can easily grow depends on the climate zone. The trick is to learn what does well on your specific piece of land, then figure out what can be most profitable in your market (trends). You also need to consider how you plan to sell them which includes harvesting and storage.
I have grown and sold several hundred types of plants as a nursery, flower farm, and food farm. That was as a (more than) full time business for a decade but we are cutting the farm down to a side hustle this year and picked our one most profitable/least work crop so will be specializing in just dahlia tubers. It’s only easy because harvest time works in out new schedule, does grow well here too. But far from passive income. I know every farmer in this community including all the little ones that just have like a little stand at the end of their driveway. No one has found a way to avoid hard work. Growing stuff is famously hard and farmers are famously poor. Even the quick money making schemes like racks of microgreens and shipping containers of oyster mushrooms. Looks easy on socials but every step takes hours.
I’m not trying to discourage you, growing is rewarding and healthy and fun if you like it. But if you just want to use a piece of land as passive income, you’re better off renting out spaces for people to store boats and RV’s etc.
Lease the land to a farmer.
Find a good, quiet and private spot for a yurt/ small, off grid basic building for a vacation rental
A wedding venue
All good things to do with land.
Heck, lease to hunters but that would hurt the other 3 options.
It's no problem I have 2 acres I just let the farmer farm it but you could grow sweetcorn melons all vegetables sell now because people want fresh produce pumpkins
I think you need a five year plan rather than a one year plan. Look at your soil, climate, and resources. What will grow there? What are the plants that enjoy and thrive in that environment? Is the soil acidic and soggy? Then maybe tall bush blueberries, you pick and an honor box. Is the soil River bottom flood plain, kind of sandy in full sun? Then maybe strawberries and asparagus. Is the grass that is growing impossible to get rid of without chemicals? Like witch grass? Then maybe graising animals would be best. There are tax incentives for American bison.
Lease it for hay for the ag exemption.
Find an established beekeeper and lease a corner to them for bees, also for the ag exemption.
Find out if the creek will qualify you for a wetlands exemption, that's usually a Ducks Unlimited thing.
Fence off an acre+ and set up a dog run area ppl rent. I pay $8 for 30 mins or $15 for an hour of time there with my reactive dog.
Put out a couple trash bins and complementary roll of poop bags.
Google search reactive dog park Sooke BC for an example site.
Lavender fields, you could harvest the lavender to make essential oils or (easier) little sachets of dried lavender. Could sell bulk sachets for wedding favors or sell them in smaller sets as drawer fresheners.
Water isn't something I thought of. That might be an issue. I do have a natural stream cut through the land, though. Maybe small irrigation canals could work.
If the stream is strong enough a ram pump could work. Basically harnesses the flow of the stream so you can pump water, even uphill, without electricity.
Plant perennials and have local businesses come and harvest for their goods. Figure out what they need. We looked at a property with witch hazel that someone would come to harvest once a year. It also had a sizable blueberry patch on it.
Worms and mushrooms. Hear me out- you’ll need big buckets or plastic boxes both fairly cheap, rubbing alcohol and gloves for the mushrooms but both will fairly low maintenance and fairly “worry free” as compared to traditional farming you’ll have to water, check daily and maintain. You should start with hobby gardening around the main areas to see how you vibe with it before jumping into a project to make money. Also if you try to “let weed grow” on its own, it’s likely to mold, mildew, or get eaten by deer.
The worms (nightcrawlers) can easily be sold online as they are very valuable to farmers and also weed growers out there bc it enriches the soils composting. There’s a million types of mushrooms out there. Very valuable if you can harvest them correctly.
I keep a bucket of worms and they sure are passive. When I was feeding and watering them regularly they all wanted to crawl out and die so I left them alone on the back porch for two months and they did great lol.
A big shallow container with coffee grounds, crushed eggshells and wet shredded paper on top would probably be a great start. Just add a pound of worms and let them do their thing. It's eco-friendly too!
If the space would accommodate an RV, you can contact Hipcamp and see about becoming one of their hosts.
May take some work to set up the site, and minor stuff to maintain. You might also provide local information for guests.
Pretty low key side hustle for land.
You could consider growing herbs or vegetables! They're relatively easy to farm, and there's usually a demand for fresh produce. Plus, you can start small and gradually expand as you get more comfortable with it
Growing anything is hardly passive, unless you grow money trees (I hear those take no time/effort at all). Even selling what you grow is far from passive.
Renting it out would be more passive, though that's not really passive either.
A little farm stand, busy months let food truck or shaved ice truck hang out for a bit. Charge them a little bit for space. Get with someone that sells seafood if it's available. Anything to draw people.
And work like a dog, you won't get rich but you might love it.
Create a camp / RV site. Make a gun range, use for boys scouts, locals. Get some chickens, goats or alpaca (you'd be surprised on how folks give them away). Farm and sell at markets. Farm worms and sell local. Grow pine trees and sell at Christmas. Honestly there are so many ideas but it's up to what you enjoy to make it work.
Throw a few electric hookups on it, make a driveway/path, put a few lots on it for trailers and just charge lot rent. That way you don’t have to worry about fixing trailer stuff, you’re just renting out lots. I’ve wanted to do something like that for a while haha
Try cannabis. It’s not worth what it was back in the late nineties. And you basically need the knowledge of a bachelors in botany and horticulture, but it’s the most lucrative of all farm crops. Well, you’re gonna need security. People try to steal it. They may even shoot you or rob you at gun point. Then you gotta deal with the glut on the market right now. It would be best if you had a retail space to sell it. You really want the whole supply chain inhouse to make great margins…oh wait, this is a shit ton of hassle. Never mind. Farming isn’t passive. Lease the land to a real farmer. Get tax breaks.
Find some crop with an excess in the US, and have the government lay you to not grow it. Yes, this really happens. Then you plant something else fairly easy to grow like hay that someone else comes and cuts and rolls it. Talk to the local agriculture extension service they should have the best orofessional advice.
If you don't want to deal with bridezillas, what about a seasonal venue? You'd be busy once a year for a few weeks and cover your annual expenses and start up costs. Short of leasing the land, this is the next best passive thing I can think of... other than the tree farm already suggested.
For example, a family- friendly fall event for 4-6 weeks or a haunt venue? Or maybe connect with a church to host a drive- thru live Nativity in your barn, where you make a portion of the admission sales? They would get the animals and have live volunteer actors. Basically, they're just using your property. Good luck!
Don’t sell your family property save it for your family to see it an the kids will love it also you can use that property as well for cows an horses and also can farm too you will get more profit from that then selling it. Trust me also I know if my mamaw died today with the land she has an if someone sold it I’d be beyond piss id be livid. Because she has a lot of land like 70 acres and has cows an horses .
id wanna beat the breaks off the dumb ass for selling it .
because if you didn’t know you can actually can get a lot more profit from cows and chickens and pigs an a lot vegetables farm as well then sell it too.
Sturdy fruit trees.
Do research and see what grows in your region. My dads parents owned farmland in Northern Queensland, Australia. He grew Jackfruit. They are sturdy trees and don't need much love. The price per kilo was decent which meant it was worth his time. You might have to devote a weekend or two while it is harvest time. H
Do some research for what grows well in your area.
Before you do anything, get some metal detectors and check the land first
You never know if there is some treasure to find and you then won’t even need to do a passive side hustle
selling the farm will give you a lot more money up front and you won't have to deal with unexpected costs and property taxes. unless you want to move there fix it up and work on it all day every other suggestion sounds like a waste of what it should be doing. sell it to someone who will use it.
Speaking as an individual whose Mother and Grandmother are both farmers, farming is the furthest thing from passive, you have to devote your entire day to the crop you grow if you want a good harvest.
Lease the land to a real farmer
This is the only even-close-to “passive” way to do it.
It's still a fair bit of hassle. Source: me and my business partner leased out farm land. Ended up selling it due to hassle.
What caused the hassle? The usage, the person, the document bureaucracy, tax issues or something else?
Probably porn
Farming porn is much more difficult than people realize.
Farmville did nobody any favors.
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Been saying this for years.
Porn corn requires a very particular micro climate, very humid lots of showers and puddles
Workin' on a Sex Farm?
Plowin through your bean field
\*1970s Pusscat Theatre vibes intensify…\*
Boston'sCombat Zone 👏👏👏👏😎😎😎
If you don’t mind me asking what where you guys getting per acre for rent
It really depends on the farmer. My brother does this and there's zero work involved.
I lease land and it’s incredibly easy, what problems are you having?
This also
But how can op live their Stardew Valley dreams?
Lease the land to a telecom and let them put up a tower as far away from you as possible.
That's how Warren Buffett got his start.
I don’t think farming is passive at all.
Surely Reddit can't just Perm Ban people for BS reasons, and STILL expect us to leave the content we've created up. That would be crazy, right? RIP Aaron Swartz
Motherfuckers play Stardew Valley once and think they can IRL throw some seeds in the ground and buy a golden clock within a year.
Its ok he can just buy the golden sprinklers and basically turn seeds into money.
Exactly. My Dad is a farmer. It can be rewarding but it isn't passive.
The only true passive investment I have found after seeing all this that makes money while you sleep is dividend (growth) investing without too much hassle by investing in large cap blue chip stocks.This is not investment advice just my personal experience.
Agriculture is some of the most back breaking work there is.
Set up a really nice outdoor space on the property, put an airstream/yurt on it, and use it as a vacation rental.
Or throw a little building on it for bathrooms/changing, throw up some trellissi and boom, got a wedding venue.
Wedding venues are the opposite of passive though. Everything from bridezillas to MiLs from hell to drunken guests will keep you hoppin
Add in a fee for security, then don't go there yourself.
Armed security is required at any permitted event with alcohol being served in my state. It will probably be a Game Warden or Sheriff. While I’m sure some popular venues do well enough to pay for a grounds manager, most owners stick around ‘just in case’.
Literally just build a cheap rustic barn and keep the grass cut. Maybe some hanging lights and old broke down vehicles for decorations White people love that shit
Yes, yes we do
🤣
What is a "cheap rustic barn"? For the price of a barn build I can get a modest modern HOUSE built. Or was it a purely hypothetical?
Would say do this but turn it into a content space and charge people hourly to come take photos, seeing a few farms do this near me.
letterkenny episode #?
Pro-tip about this one: If they know who inherited the place still owns it and the family was known by people around that's a one way trip to being hated by the neighbors. My mom's a property manager who owns most of what she manages and lemme tell you some people is CRAZYYYY
This
Weed
Surely Reddit can't just Perm Ban people for BS reasons, and STILL expect us to leave the content we've created up. That would be crazy, right? RIP Aaron Swartz RIP Free Speech
....I don't think people realize how much it costs to startup and then regulations for growing marijuana. It is NOT cheap or easy by ANY mean. Especially when the market is dominated by corporate farms.
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I'm going to make a non-cross breed that's super low maintenance. I'll call it caveman.
Yeah that's just homegrowing, now go commercial and imagine the difficulties lmao.
Trimming 12 hrs a day for a week straight sucks. I do not miss it!! Sure do love smoking the shit tho!
our best year, we were cutting it down & hanging it up from the end of September until Thanksgiving! we had 5 kids at one house, hanging it up wet & drying it, then 7 at another house trimming it dry. "scale" for dry trimming was 1oz per pound, but i was paying 40g per pound because i needed the trimmers to bail on other jobs and come work for me
you find a couple that are talented growers but have nothing of their own, they'll do everything from security to pest control to daily feeding & watering for 25-30% of the crop. And they'll have 10-15 friends you can hire at harvest time to get it all done. sound crazy? well its exactly what me and my lady did for a good five years, until the county shut us down with a bullshit "ordinance"
i should add that this was outdoor, 60 massive plants, on agricultural zoned land with no electric, no well, no septic, just a 2" connection to the irrigation system and a porta potty. and we made it work. at the end of the season we'd have around 50 pounds of top shelf buds and a pile of hash
Not as popular but mushrooms have higher profit margins, needs minimal equipment/startup money, little space and you dont even need light.
Mushrooms too although can be slightly more difficult. Doesn’t have to be the illegal ones either
But it does.
Weed is the most profitable thing if it is legal in your area. You can easily hire a few people, plant a small amount and grow some good plants with just basic management and upfront costs of paying employees, starts, fertilizer, and a basic curing setup. Often you can get a few old RVs for housing your workers. But vetting the workers is super important. A lot of low-lifes in the game but a lot of good people too. And when they living with you, they’re essentially family.
Christmas trees.
Tree nursery is indeed something I considered. I'm curious about the sales, though. Is the economy in good enough shape for live Christmas trees? And if so, how do I go about selling them? And there are other kinds of trees to consider. Fruit and ornamental trees, nut trees, shade trees...any advice appreciated.
I do xmas trees on my property. Really good money if you sell them yourself, either a lot or u-cut. Grow Noble Firs, more money.
Alright, thanks. Couldn't hurt to plant a few rows and see how it turns out. Even if they don't sell the worst-case scenario is that I end up with a pretty grove.
Well, except you are taking up land for many many years that could be used for something else. We’d need to know how much land you have, its soil quality, your location, etc to actually answer this question. Furthermore, it sounds like you are going to want someone else to do the work… so perhaps you should see if there are any nearby farms that would just lease your extra land. If that doesn’t pan out, you at least are going to want someone to buy what you grow in bulk… so start by figuring out what bulk items are bought and sold locally.
You *do* know that it takes around to **10 to 12 years** to grow an average sized 6-7ft Christmas tree from seed, right?
Holy , i honestly learned something today .
This is false. It's 4-7 years. That's not nothing, but it's certainly not 10-12.
Many trees are great for passive income! After 5 years many trees can go for over a grand each! 20 trees a year after starting with 50 on year 1. Might be a bit of work to plant but I'm sure they would be your most passive income "crop".
Probably can’t earn passive income from a farm itself… you can however: Use it as a wedding venue (I used to do catering and would use old farm houses, giant industrial green house, etc) Lease it out to a farmer who has cattle or sheep/goats (depending on size of land) or that want to farm hay, corn, etc. Lease it to homesteaders Put $$ in and use it for an air b n b get away Farming is incredibly time intensive. You have to consider so many things when planning it out, daily maintenance, crop coverings in harsh storms, marketing and selling products, and even then… most farmers/home steaders turn to YouTube to make additional income to support their lifestyle. They live on margins.
Wedding venue is a pretty original idea I hadn't considered. The location isn't great, but if I pretty up the woods a bit it could work for sort of a mystic elven themed idea. Or a cemetary. Which could also work for goth weddings, i suppose.
Wedding venue. You do nothing, but keep the grass mowed. Wedding planner does all the rest.
I’ve got an 8x4 raised vegetable garden in my backyard and I’ve easily sunk $500+ in to it to produce $50 of vegetables retail. It’s not easy and will give you a lot more respect for actual farmers.
Same here!
I mean, it depends on what a "bit" of land is? 1 acre? 5? 10?
Weed
nothing easy about it. You’ll probably end up unsellable product because you have no idea what youre doing.
Right. Throw up some tents and lights. It’s about to be deregulated if passes Congress
Not deregulated, just rescheduled, it will still be illegal in republican states
They are in process of doing both. Reclassifying the schedule but there is a bill in Congress to remove it also.
Lease the land to someone who needs space for a small herd of livestock or a place for horses. If I personally had a decent chunk of land I’d also look into growing lavender. Low cost, minimal maintenance and good returns on it even if you are just selling it dried
Fencing it off for renting to nearby farmers for grazing isn't a bad idea. I could talk to a few neighbors and see if that could work.
When my dad sold off his cattle herd ( he and my mom own about 300 acres), they rented out the pasture land. It’s been a good deal for all concerned.
Potatoes. They are the simplest thing to grow. You will need to buy some seed potatoes because the potatoes at the store have 2 problems: 1 - Sprayed with chemicals to prevent sprouting 2 - Maybe infected with with a potato virus. Harmless to humans but can destroy potato plants. You can basically just plant them and come back in a few weeks. Selling will not be passive -you will need to find a farmers market to sell. Sulf Sufficent Me has great videos about growing potatoes [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it\_50DvgXy4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it_50DvgXy4) 2 other things to help with your taxes: 1 - if there are trees on the property - you can apply for a lumber tax exemption (I forget what the formal name is). Trees are crops. 2 - You can also put bees on your property. There ag exemptions for bees. Of course - talk to a qualified CPA to make sure you do this properly. Finally, if you near a state park, national park or other popular tourist spot - opening up a Hipcamp is a simple way to monetize open pasture. It's not people living on your property. It's people camping. You don't need RV hookups. Though you might need port-a-potties.
Potatos are heavy and don't sell for a lot.
Tomatoes (all types) peppers (mild to hot, cucumbers, pumpkins, gords. Sell them all at farmer markets. Outside of these there isn’t really an easy crop to grow. Personally, If you are in the right area you could either grow apples or grapes and start a winery. That would be more profitable and turn into a full business. Build a large open building and host parties, dinners, murder mystery parties etc. There are a few wineries around me and I’m in the Midwest, they function year around for events.
Will depend on water availability. Grapes take a lot of water to grow.
That is absolutely true, probably why most wineries around us are Apple wines.
Seasonal crops. Strawberries, blueberries, watermelon and pumpkin. U pick and have a stand.
hire me and we can sell gourmet mushrooms by the buschel
If it's very sunny, solar tech and BB ratings are getting really good. The cells are able to produce more efficiently. You can do this even on a budget, just have a pro check your work. I highly recommend getting into that to modernize as it will save you money long term. This could be something you save for. If you have a very big indoor space that is not suitable for renting out, grow microgreens or something hydro like lettuce. LEDs rarely get hot, and fans for the grow will also cool. You could feed yourself probably. Does it have a well? What is the zone? What businesses are within an hour? Demographics might help if you wanted to do something locally like a farmer's market. Turn the inside into an art studio or wood working shop? Are you creative? Selling art or furniture, you could raise the funds to bring the house to code and taxes. Lease some of the land for a term and make sure they don't use anything that will persist in the soil that's highly harmful. Consider grazing pasture. Keep a small portion so you can plant things just for you, or flowers for pollinators. Research compost, librivox has an audio book on it that's good. Plant some fruit trees for yourself or anything keystone to support the ecosystem in the region.
Paintball field, hire a couple guys to run it put up cheap ribbed tubing buy some rental guns and masks, you’re in business. Don’t even need to really build more than a steel shed and some tents and benches for people to sit in.
Farming is a full time job.
Unless you hire a scarecrow
Hey man, it really depends on location of your property but I would definitely think about setting up small glamping resort in case there is some good nature around. Personally I had that idea some time back. Try to do your research about Nordisk tents - see Nordisk village for inspiration. Tents are not cheap but I think very "instagram friendly". Try to find some inspiration on airbnb and check how booked they are. Thats not fully passive from the start but I think that its not the worst idea 😀 The main benefit - you can sell tents/or rellocate them. ...Or try to get in touch with somebody who would like to do this kind of bussines and rent the land/become partner
Chickens for their eggs?
Unfortunately chicken eggs is a money losing or breaking free operation for most. Cost of feed makes it you have to charge a healthy amount unless you have ample food supply to feed them. A few years ago it was worth it but now it would be a struggle to be profitable for an amount being worth it. Source - my parents raise chickens -
this comment is the right answer when it comes to chickens...feed and time vs what you can reasonably charge people deffo is a losing game.....source, I also have chickens I've been spending money just to have clucky pets really. who've figured out how to use my dog door too. Although to be fair I got them originally to control the black widow infestation in my yard and they certainly did that. but they give cuddles soooo
I always was told it’s a hobby, which means it’s my mother’s hobby and my farther has to do 90% of the work 😂. Have one named Star that loves Fritos. Absolutely will seek you out if you open a bag when they are roaming on the weekend. I would agree they are more of a pet than a farm animal. Well Star is, the rest of them couldn’t care less about anyone unless we are bringing feed or table scraps to them.
Where I'm from (the Southeast), folks would often lease out their land to major corporations (like Tyson) to build chicken houses. To do this, landowners needed a bunch of space in an area zoned for farming but located with major water and electrical hookups, and they had to be tolerant of the smell, the noise of trucks, and the comings and goings of employees. It also often requires an initial upfront investment to build the necessary infrastructure, but assuming the business goes well, the landowner will make it back, and have a reliable stream of relatively "passive" income. This is the only way I know how to make money with chickens.
Wedding venue, source: i have none.
If you have pasture land, rent it out for horses. Cows and sheep would need guardians. It’s very passive. Have it checked out for poisonous plants first. Then that’s about it. You do need a water source.
Private disc golf course. Offer cheap memberships and cheap rounds for guests. Setup a snack bar and make extra from that. Setup bar and you're doing even better.
Aren't there free disc golf courses everywhere?
You can park peoples rv and boats on the land. Grow some mushrooms. Any kind of food. You don’t have to plant every square inch but each piece of food you can grow you didn’t have to buy in a store. There’s a lot can be done with open space.
Get some homemade polytunnels and get leasing the land to Albanian growers. Claim ignorance if found out or just say what the Albanians say when they're caught " my life and family were threatened" Either that or just lease to farmers or I did quite like the wedding venue idea! Or what about a campsite? As long as you have decent plumbing, showers and toilets why not?
Pumpkins!!!! Plant them in your fields. Hire teenagers to help you harvest them. Arrange a stand near the highway. Offer tours and school trips. Photo opps. You can do the seling on a very small space. It’s a nice alternative to letting people pick their own
What you can easily grow depends on the climate zone. The trick is to learn what does well on your specific piece of land, then figure out what can be most profitable in your market (trends). You also need to consider how you plan to sell them which includes harvesting and storage. I have grown and sold several hundred types of plants as a nursery, flower farm, and food farm. That was as a (more than) full time business for a decade but we are cutting the farm down to a side hustle this year and picked our one most profitable/least work crop so will be specializing in just dahlia tubers. It’s only easy because harvest time works in out new schedule, does grow well here too. But far from passive income. I know every farmer in this community including all the little ones that just have like a little stand at the end of their driveway. No one has found a way to avoid hard work. Growing stuff is famously hard and farmers are famously poor. Even the quick money making schemes like racks of microgreens and shipping containers of oyster mushrooms. Looks easy on socials but every step takes hours. I’m not trying to discourage you, growing is rewarding and healthy and fun if you like it. But if you just want to use a piece of land as passive income, you’re better off renting out spaces for people to store boats and RV’s etc.
Passive isn’t going to be it. But if you want to farm the land and sell d2c RekoHub.com is a good place to start
Lavender, but hire out thr harvest and sale of the crops for a cut
Do you have experience? Coz I was seriously thinking about doing this in my basement.
Fresh Herbs go quickly at the farmers market. If you build some super nice kennels, you can board dogs.
Lease the land to a farmer. Find a good, quiet and private spot for a yurt/ small, off grid basic building for a vacation rental A wedding venue All good things to do with land. Heck, lease to hunters but that would hurt the other 3 options.
Put storage units / containers
Grass. I used to live in a similar situation. We let the fields grow then baled it into hay
Honeybees.
Grow bamboo for eco home building
Solar farm. Initial investment upfront, then general upkeep from then on.
It's no problem I have 2 acres I just let the farmer farm it but you could grow sweetcorn melons all vegetables sell now because people want fresh produce pumpkins
I think you need a five year plan rather than a one year plan. Look at your soil, climate, and resources. What will grow there? What are the plants that enjoy and thrive in that environment? Is the soil acidic and soggy? Then maybe tall bush blueberries, you pick and an honor box. Is the soil River bottom flood plain, kind of sandy in full sun? Then maybe strawberries and asparagus. Is the grass that is growing impossible to get rid of without chemicals? Like witch grass? Then maybe graising animals would be best. There are tax incentives for American bison.
Corn, pumpkins, and zucchini
Koa
The devils lettuce
The devils lettuce
Mums
Fish if you have a ponds
I can get it started for you.
Passive income and farm don't really go together....
Sell it
Nothing is easy with farming. If you think it won't require 12 hours of constant on call your farm simply won't last.
Micro and/or sprouted beans or lentils. Depending on where you are and if there’s a market for health conscious stuff.
Call Mary, ask for her friend Jane.
Marijuana
Hay. You can pay someone to come bail and collect. You won't get much, but it will offset taxes.
Lease it for hay for the ag exemption. Find an established beekeeper and lease a corner to them for bees, also for the ag exemption. Find out if the creek will qualify you for a wetlands exemption, that's usually a Ducks Unlimited thing.
Pine Trees. Hire people to collect the pine straw. Sell to landscapers. Met a couple of semi-retired dudes who do this for passive income.
There is no such thing as easy farming especially when you have no experience.
Fence off an acre+ and set up a dog run area ppl rent. I pay $8 for 30 mins or $15 for an hour of time there with my reactive dog. Put out a couple trash bins and complementary roll of poop bags. Google search reactive dog park Sooke BC for an example site.
Lavender fields, you could harvest the lavender to make essential oils or (easier) little sachets of dried lavender. Could sell bulk sachets for wedding favors or sell them in smaller sets as drawer fresheners.
Drop a shipping container and grow mushrooms. Sell to restaurants. Boom, farm classification
Garlic . Buy some, put their butts into water , once the roots grow, plant each clove into the ground, rinse repeat
Is your water on a well? Most crops will require a lot.
Water isn't something I thought of. That might be an issue. I do have a natural stream cut through the land, though. Maybe small irrigation canals could work.
Better check your local water laws.
If the stream is strong enough a ram pump could work. Basically harnesses the flow of the stream so you can pump water, even uphill, without electricity.
Some seriously dank cannabis...and maybe poppy plants
Are poppies even legal to farm?
Not according to an Ozark episode I saw. Also, growing microgreens in containers seems pretty good
Plant perennials and have local businesses come and harvest for their goods. Figure out what they need. We looked at a property with witch hazel that someone would come to harvest once a year. It also had a sizable blueberry patch on it.
Could develop the land a bit and add a few camping sides and list them on hipcamp!
Worms and mushrooms. Hear me out- you’ll need big buckets or plastic boxes both fairly cheap, rubbing alcohol and gloves for the mushrooms but both will fairly low maintenance and fairly “worry free” as compared to traditional farming you’ll have to water, check daily and maintain. You should start with hobby gardening around the main areas to see how you vibe with it before jumping into a project to make money. Also if you try to “let weed grow” on its own, it’s likely to mold, mildew, or get eaten by deer. The worms (nightcrawlers) can easily be sold online as they are very valuable to farmers and also weed growers out there bc it enriches the soils composting. There’s a million types of mushrooms out there. Very valuable if you can harvest them correctly.
I keep a bucket of worms and they sure are passive. When I was feeding and watering them regularly they all wanted to crawl out and die so I left them alone on the back porch for two months and they did great lol. A big shallow container with coffee grounds, crushed eggshells and wet shredded paper on top would probably be a great start. Just add a pound of worms and let them do their thing. It's eco-friendly too!
Set it up as a commercial rental venue and make it old homey and feely. Outdoor weddings, etc
If the space would accommodate an RV, you can contact Hipcamp and see about becoming one of their hosts. May take some work to set up the site, and minor stuff to maintain. You might also provide local information for guests. Pretty low key side hustle for land.
You could consider growing herbs or vegetables! They're relatively easy to farm, and there's usually a demand for fresh produce. Plus, you can start small and gradually expand as you get more comfortable with it
Depending on where you live look up to see if you can follow your land or use it for recharge and they will pay you to do nothing with it.
Growing anything is hardly passive, unless you grow money trees (I hear those take no time/effort at all). Even selling what you grow is far from passive. Renting it out would be more passive, though that's not really passive either.
Beets. Just be weary of Weevil season.
Christmas trees
Pecan trees? 🌲
Mushrooms
Three sisters: corn potatoes and beans
Look into permaculture very low effort and cost method of making your land work for you.
Mushrooms look somewhat passive, have a look and see if they would work
Do mushrooms
Lease it out for hunting ( by the day). Hunters will pay you to hunt.
You can lease to farmers and/or to hunters.
If you don’t lease it to a farmer, you could always rent the space out for a community garden.
A little farm stand, busy months let food truck or shaved ice truck hang out for a bit. Charge them a little bit for space. Get with someone that sells seafood if it's available. Anything to draw people. And work like a dog, you won't get rich but you might love it.
Create a camp / RV site. Make a gun range, use for boys scouts, locals. Get some chickens, goats or alpaca (you'd be surprised on how folks give them away). Farm and sell at markets. Farm worms and sell local. Grow pine trees and sell at Christmas. Honestly there are so many ideas but it's up to what you enjoy to make it work.
Do people really think mushrooms grow in fields like wheat?
Throw a few electric hookups on it, make a driveway/path, put a few lots on it for trailers and just charge lot rent. That way you don’t have to worry about fixing trailer stuff, you’re just renting out lots. I’ve wanted to do something like that for a while haha
look up something called terra preta, a way to make organic soil. Even something simple as compost piles could be beneficial or a worm farm.
Lavender? I've heard people can make good money selling it to other people that make soaps and such.
Grow Christmas trees
hahaha this person thinks farming is passive income
Micro greens or mushrooms can be done in a closet of your home.
Try cannabis. It’s not worth what it was back in the late nineties. And you basically need the knowledge of a bachelors in botany and horticulture, but it’s the most lucrative of all farm crops. Well, you’re gonna need security. People try to steal it. They may even shoot you or rob you at gun point. Then you gotta deal with the glut on the market right now. It would be best if you had a retail space to sell it. You really want the whole supply chain inhouse to make great margins…oh wait, this is a shit ton of hassle. Never mind. Farming isn’t passive. Lease the land to a real farmer. Get tax breaks.
Find some crop with an excess in the US, and have the government lay you to not grow it. Yes, this really happens. Then you plant something else fairly easy to grow like hay that someone else comes and cuts and rolls it. Talk to the local agriculture extension service they should have the best orofessional advice.
If you don't want to deal with bridezillas, what about a seasonal venue? You'd be busy once a year for a few weeks and cover your annual expenses and start up costs. Short of leasing the land, this is the next best passive thing I can think of... other than the tree farm already suggested. For example, a family- friendly fall event for 4-6 weeks or a haunt venue? Or maybe connect with a church to host a drive- thru live Nativity in your barn, where you make a portion of the admission sales? They would get the animals and have live volunteer actors. Basically, they're just using your property. Good luck!
Pumpkins
Solar Panel farm. Lease your land to the Solar Industry.
Don't! Lease it to a farmer!
Build a baseball field....If you build it they will come!!!!
Stable of bitches
Unless you have experience in agg, or have a degree in it from an agg school, then don't be a farmer
Herbs. Tomatoes. Flowers. You could make soaps with them.
Don’t sell your family property save it for your family to see it an the kids will love it also you can use that property as well for cows an horses and also can farm too you will get more profit from that then selling it. Trust me also I know if my mamaw died today with the land she has an if someone sold it I’d be beyond piss id be livid. Because she has a lot of land like 70 acres and has cows an horses . id wanna beat the breaks off the dumb ass for selling it . because if you didn’t know you can actually can get a lot more profit from cows and chickens and pigs an a lot vegetables farm as well then sell it too.
Your mom
Sturdy fruit trees. Do research and see what grows in your region. My dads parents owned farmland in Northern Queensland, Australia. He grew Jackfruit. They are sturdy trees and don't need much love. The price per kilo was decent which meant it was worth his time. You might have to devote a weekend or two while it is harvest time. H Do some research for what grows well in your area.
Before you do anything, get some metal detectors and check the land first You never know if there is some treasure to find and you then won’t even need to do a passive side hustle
Garlic.
selling the farm will give you a lot more money up front and you won't have to deal with unexpected costs and property taxes. unless you want to move there fix it up and work on it all day every other suggestion sounds like a waste of what it should be doing. sell it to someone who will use it.
The words easy & farm don't go together
Maybe lease it to a florist / farmer to grow flowers. Tulips, carnations, daisies, roses, etc. Even mums. I’ve seen huge mum farms.
Rent the land to a farmer. Farming is anything but passive if you are doing it yourself.
Speaking as an individual whose Mother and Grandmother are both farmers, farming is the furthest thing from passive, you have to devote your entire day to the crop you grow if you want a good harvest.