{"id":847,"date":"2016-05-08T16:57:21","date_gmt":"2016-05-08T20:57:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/?p=847"},"modified":"2016-05-08T16:57:21","modified_gmt":"2016-05-08T20:57:21","slug":"cash-crops-can-pay-for-your-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelittlehalfacre.com\/staging\/cash-crops-can-pay-for-your-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Cash Crops Can Pay for Your Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve had several people tell me how much they envy what we’re doing here on our little half acre homestead.\u00a0 They say they would love to do the same thing if they could just leave their jobs.\u00a0 This post is going to be about following your dream.<\/p>\n

Unless you live in an apartment (and, maybe, even if you do<\/em> live in an apartment) there’s a way to finance your dream of owning a little piece of land.\u00a0 After all, before we moved here, we lived in a hotel!\u00a0 We had sold our lovely (but costly!) house on the coast for just over what we paid for it after which I took a job as the resident manager of a small, boutique hotel.\u00a0 We were given a gorgeous suite and we paid no rent or utilities but, because we got to live “free,” the salary was small. In addition, my job was pretty much 24\/7 so getting a second job to help fund our dream of a homestead in the mountains was not an option.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, my mother passed away and left enough of a small inheritance that we were able to pay for our half acre homestead with cash.\u00a0 But, before that happened, I had already started to get there on my own and I was busy working toward the dream.<\/p>\n

Since I had to be on site at the hotel at all<\/em> times except for a couple of 12 hour shifts off, I needed to be able to generate income that worked within that framework.\u00a0 I couldn’t get another job and, since we were still helping a bit with getting the kids through college, we couldn’t save much from our income.\u00a0 I discovered microgreens while researching a health issue of my own and started growing a few trays for us to eat.\u00a0 Once I saw how incredible they were for maintaining good health, I knew I had also found a business that I could be passionate about.\u00a0 It was a business that would also generate enough income (over time) to help us buy our homestead so we could start living our dream.\u00a0 I put up shelving units in the second bedroom of our suite, hung up some florescent lights, bought some growing trays and a stock of seed and began earning money selling microgreens at a local farmer’s market on one of my 12 hour shifts off.<\/p>\n