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

 

[cbw]

We sell hedge (Osage orange) for fence posts and traditional bows.


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[Maddog66]

It’s not my hustle, but I let a guy on my land for about a week every early fall to cut white cedar boughs. Then later in the winter he comes back and cuts black spruce boughs. I make enough $ off that to pay about 1/2 of the property taxes. I think he makes fairly serious money off my place and about 5 others similar…….but he works like a dog for it.

One thing I’ve looked into is buying one of the drones you can use for a herbicide treatments and advertising to food plotters, TSI, field edges…….etc.

 

[Turkey Creek]

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.

If you ever get to the point of teaching classes let us know. I would enjoy doing that for a weekend. Right out of college I met a girl ..... yea well we know how that goes sometimes. Anyways I ended up in upstate NY for a couple of months. Went to work for a company that was salvaging old, super large wooden warehouse beams and then turning them into timber frame beams. All the new guys started as the bitches that stood out in the freezing cold and pulled all the "metal trash" out of the beams so that we wouldn't destroy to many blades when resawing. Had just made it to an inside job and was refinishing old wooden flooring when they suddenly laid off about 2-3 of us newer guys. Not sure what that was about, but about that time I decided I was ready to move back to Nebraska anyhow. I was looking forward to getting to that point of actually doing some timber framing. We looked at having a company do some of our great room in the new house, but cost got in the way.

 

[bigboreblr]

Probably would not be hard to make a thousand bucks a year selling scion from our orchards.

Glad to give folks on here them for free though.

 

[Westwind]

We sell hedge (Osage orange) for fence posts and traditional bows.

I have literally burned dozens of these, including many long straight pieces because I was too dumb to figure out how to do what you are doing.