Unique side hustles?

[Natty Bumppo]

Not a farmer, but enough land and timber to do a small side hustle selling small timber frame sheds. I do about one a year. The spruce and fir I drop via my TSI projects I then have milled locally by a guy I know with a sawmill. I'll then build a small 10x12 or 12x16 timber frame and sell it locally.

I just bought a neighboring 15 acre property with a 5,000 ranch that I am currently demo'ing and would like to turn half if it into a Timber Frame shop...selling timber frames and teaching timber frame classes. Still a few years out on that one.

Christmas trees is a popular side hustle too here in the Northeast for many farmers. Thinking about doing that one as well.

 

[Telemark]

I think local grafting classes could be a nice side hustle. Around here they get good money for it.

 

[Westwind]

Someone is selling started Miscanthus on fb marketplace for $15 per pot.

It would take time to get in the miscanthus biz but the rhizomes are pretty darn harvestable