We live on less then 10 acres. Lately with all the problems with food, gas and money I have been wondering how we can live off the land or make money from the land.

I have came up with a few ideas. My husband doesn't agree because he knows he will have to do most of the work. These are things we could do if we had to.

We have tons of night crawlers. My idea make a worm container and sell the night crawlers for fishermen.

Their also good for making compost. Just start a compost pile and add the night crawlers. Compost for our garden.

Maple syrup. We have land full of maple trees. We can always make maple syrup for our use and to sell. We just need to tap the trees in March. It just takes 43 gallons of sap to make 1 gallon of syrup!!

We would have to do lots of reading to find out how to make syrup. We've never done it before. Personally I don't like homemade syrup but I love Mrs. Buttersworth.

We can always get chickens and have fresh eggs and we can sell eggs. People are really looking for everything fresh now days.

We love fresh eggs.

Fresh eggs have the best taste. You know how old they are and where they came from. Store bought eggs no one knows how old they are. This was a huge yoke on this egg sometimes we get doubles.

If we're going to have eggs we could also have fresh home grown chickens. My only problem I don't know if I could kill them.

We did at one time when our kids were little we had chickens. Some were for eating and the others we kept for eggs.

Vegetables.....We grow tomatoes and squash, pumkins and peppers now. We can put in a larger garden very easliy. Can for ourselves and sell fresh vegetables at farmers market or put up a stand in front of our house.

We did canning every year when the kids were all home.

Growing pumpkins for Halloween. We have one large space that has no trees and lots of sun. We would like to put in a pumpkin patch and sell the pumpkins. We plan on doing this for next year.

Canning pumpkins for us.

There is also bee keeping. We have lots of flowers for the bees. Honey for ourselves and to sell.

Flowers selling flowers and plants at farmers market.

Apples we have 5 apple trees good for canning and selling.

Selling wood we have so many dead trees.

We also have room for turkeys to sell and eat.

Hunting we can hunt deer on our land and eat vinson all winter.

That is about all I can come up with but I guess we could live off the land if we had too.

How much is it going to cost to first start all of the projects listed above. Most items you need for each project is pretty cheap. The most expensive would be the chickens and getting a chicken coop built.

THINK ORGANIC.