Makin the most of my suburban condo lel. Photo taken a few months ago, tomato plants are now about 3 feet tall and have completely over taken that raised planter. Need to wrap them in a plastic cover or move them into a greenhouse shelf to hopefully keep them alive through the winter, but space is a big problem for me

nice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY3Qx9j5M-E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJNu1geGU6A

This may be a touchy subject for one or two of you but

Any money in fur farming?

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge on mink or fox farming? Seems like it would be highly profitable in the PNW. How hard could it be raising fluffy weasels?

I don't really have any reservations about it

For that matter we could farm fish like trout or catfish. If we are in for the long haul, we could even do sturgeon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88aDJFdUjH4&t=329s
https://www.marshallbergfarm.com/

ginseng is another possible cash crop. it takes 3-5 years to mature, but then it's worth a few hundred dollars a pound. http://www.hardingsginsengfarm.com/

I'm originally from NC, I know a bit about growing tobacco. Could brush up on what I already know, give us another cash crop

a lot of people pay good money for fresh tobacco

selling tobacco would cause the atf to go should deep in our asses. I'd rather not have the group responsible for waco around our town.

shoulder

true

fucking feds

On that note preferably I'd like to give the ATF no reason to worry about us. I think it goes without saying absolutely zero tolerance for illegal narcotics

No, I don't want any degenerate druggies in our community

fur industry is good

I could totally see myself having a mink cage up there. My fiancée loves fur coats

you'd need 30 or 40 for a coat.

Do farmers usually just sell the pelts to the companies that make them?

i personally dont see the purpose to raise an animal in order to beat it to death to sell it for fur...i mean its a real easy way to make women of any political leaning be turned off from it...

and mink coats can cost anywhere between 5 and 10 grand but thats retail and it usually sits on the rack for months or years so the retailer will need to make most of the money otherwise they wouldnt hold it ...plus there are always a ton at pawn shops so i really dont see it as a real valuable product to make new

@K_Wagner

(((they))) are winning the fur industry. Gucci is the latest (and biggest) to drop fur as part of their sortiment. Armani, Calvin Klein and multiple other major designers have all stopped using fur.

I know this because my home area is a large fur producer in Finland. Many farms are shutting down now since the supply is larger than the demand and prices aren't high enough to yield a profit.

That's fuckin gay

Modernity blows, man..

Treehuggers and hippies man...

https://svenska.yle.fi/artikel/2017/10/12/gucci-slopar-palsarna-djurrattsaktivisterna-jublar

Here's an article in Swedish

You can run it through Google translate though

Thanks, I will. This makes me want to go work in a slaughter house for a few weeks just to offset the cringe.

Fur is still doing pretty good in the east asian market isn't it? Maybe they'd like some American-raised fur that isn't from dogs.

Agh.. Hate this damn era

slaughterhouse is humane for the most part ...killing minks for fur is about as far from humane as you can get

http://www.chichesterinc.com/Mink.htm @Orchid I believe they have a warehouse in toronto. I went there a few times with my dad as a kid, could you check out their operation and report back?

The 3 problems I see with mink farming are feeding them, volitale comoditity prices and processing the carcasses. They only eat meat and they need a lot of it as they grow up and while they are breeding. Fur prices could plummet hard in the next crash, so it's not recession proof. From what i've read they smell awful and butchering them makes you smell like them for a week.

Regarding fur farming, rabbits are a really good option