How the Steel Was Tempered: The Story of LPH

How to make a garden out of a successful farm and do it again if necessary

"If the tragedy of remove emotions remain the situation," - wrote in the comments to the stories about how the participant with the nickname FORUMHOUSE NadWas and her family have made from the suburban area near Donetsk, a small but successful farm. People worked 20 hours a day, to develop new technology, followed the new varieties and breeds and offered customers the highest quality products. But life turned so that one day they had all sold out, and did not even start from scratch, but with a minus sign. Courage, initiative, hard work and wont to rely only on himself is not allowed to give up. Now this Cottage Farm again become profitable. We tell about this experience - such people need to learn not only livestock, crop production and trade, but also about life.

Content

• How to make a garden a source of stable earnings
• Which industries "farming holiday" is most successful
• The scientific organization of labor on the family farm
•  How to start over

Cottage, as a source of income

Hope - a civil engineer, her husband was a miner, and their children live in a small town 30 kilometers away from the suffering of Donetsk. When the horizon loomed the pension, the family began to look for new ways of generating income. Resource for this they had one - giving. To your site bought the abandoned neighborhood, to clean them from the thickets, received 30 acres of land. Built a barn, bought two Vietnamese pigs and wild boar and two monthly goats.

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Goat grew, and gave offspring to retirement, we already had four goats. Vietnamese pigs are regularly brought us pigs, which we successfully sold through the Internet.

The animals were first raised only "for himself", then the neighbor asked him to sell milk for her grandson. Milk liked, I began to buy more. Behind him stretched the other vacationers. Good fat milk bought up in flight, was left to himself. Bought another plot to build another barn, the number of goats increased by half.

It turned out that the goat - the most profitable animals.

Pigs was changed to Californian rabbits. Brought chickens: Cochin China, and amroksov kuchinok. Sometimes the country could hear the sounds of the bombing, and on New Year's make a wish "to no more shooting," but worries distract from the painful thoughts.

The scientific approach to farming

I hope all the time trying to make their farms more productive to. Constantly reading books, studying new varieties and technologies. It turned that simple techniques can greatly increase profits. For example, it is understood that profitable to sell only ultrarannie tomatoes and cucumbers, then these vegetables can be sold only for pennies. It changed its approach to seedlings: home on the windowsill left only pepper, eggplant and tomatoes early, the rest began to grow in greenhouses in the country.

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Covering film, which would warm the earth, and in late March sow the treated seeds.

Sometimes the "shoot" unexpected ideas. Bought incubator, laid a clutch of eggs, just to adapt to the unit. Excellent hatched chicks. Gave an ad in the local paper and sold them in a matter of days - buyers even called a month later. Success inspired to buy a new incubator. And so it was all over.

NadWas

When we built the cottage, we did not think that it will be the only source of our existence, that we will live in this small two-storey house 6x4 m all year round. Although to a city apartment only 20 minutes by car, I was not at home for six months.

The principles of a successful farm villa

After a couple of seasons, it became clear what direction to develop. It turned out to be the most promising:

• Goat: the sale of milk, cheese and sheep cheese, the sale of goats;
• Poultry: Eggs and chickens for sale in the spring;
• Rabbit: selling calves in the spring, winter - meat.
• Berries: about 2,000 bushes early strawberries and blackberry bushes of 130 different ripening become tangible addition to the family budget;
• Early cucumbers and tomatoes in tunnel greenhouses.

Every industry has evolved in a different direction. To goat breeding was successful, selling unproductive goats, currently left most milk yield. Morning milk is taken to the city market, from the evening made cottage cheese and cheese for sale. Fires most unexpected ideas: for example, everyone in the neighborhood were doing the big cheese in a colander, lay on the counter trehkilogrammovye circles from which the buyer to cut into desired sizes. Hope prosherstila the internet and found a man in the regional center, which produces small tins of pickled cheeses.

I bought a few pieces - small head cheese with a beautiful figure weight scattered like hot cakes in the 300-400 grams.

NadWas

Goats are the most profitable animals for us. When we were active hostilities, a pension we did not pay five months, most of the shops did not work and it was forbidden to all public transport, we have held on through goats. Husband under shelling carried milk to the city on foot and used the money to buy the essentials.

The organization of work on the farm villa

Before Hope retirement worked at a construction site chief of a site, but at home, in everyday life it is always "turned off the superintendent." Now the foreman had to always keep on, because "at home, in everyday life" - and it was now working. The woman saw that the best of circumstances, trading in the market early vegetables, feta cheese and goat's milk her husband for two or three days to earn an average monthly salary of the town. And she was trying to figure out how to organize production so that trade can be year-round.

We lived under the motto "to make something out of nothing."

In December, the incubation started season - incubators were in a city apartment. Then he began lambing goats, then the seedlings. He showed himself chickens breed Lohman Brown. All say they are somewhat dry - nothing like that. All carcasses were meaty, with an optimum amount of Zhirkov, smooth, all approximately the same weight. At the market there were regular customers who bought a chicken to a specific date. We conclude that it is necessary to organize the growing of chickens so sell chicken all year round.

Each small success inspires, and the question whether it makes sense to work 20 hours is no longer standing.

Distribution of duties

For a long time the market traded husband Hope, then these functions are transferred to his son. Man strongly resisted, but after a month selling briskly throughout the production.

It turned out that he had a talent for sales: he could already early in the morning to sell everything wholesale and retail price is constantly attracting new customers. In general, farmers' responsibilities were distributed as follows:

• Hope: milking goats and processing of milk, planting, seeding, trees and processing plants, cleaning, cooking, working out ideas: which animals to breed, what plants to plant, where to get it.
• Husband: pass a herd of (+ seven goats goat), harvested hay in the winter, engaged in construction and repair works;
• The eldest son: to sell their products, purchased feed and building materials. When there was time, he helped to water, to clean cages and sheds.
• The middle son: doing all the vegetable garden, field work.

Of course, it would be good to have the resources for the development of the farm, but in reality had to be invested in the development of literally penny. Although it was already clear: they get a real, well-working farm, which brings a stable and decent income. But when summer residence Enterprise reached a stable pace, fate dealt this worthy family several crushing blows in a row.

How to start over

The middle son of Hope, healthy, athletic, non-drinking man was hospitalized with a double stroke. Doctors said hopes for a favorable outcome of a little miracle that all had survived. All the time needed expensive medication, had to sell the car, sell the goats. When the eldest son of Hope succeeds it on duty in the hospital, she ran to the farm and tried to catch up: laying the eggs in an incubator, transplanted raspberries, put sawdust in the bow on the pen to New Year.

When it became clear that the son they pull out, came a new problem - the stroke at the husband.

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He sold the last two goats. Now I have an Olympian calm, only one thought: how to get out of expensive men and how to steer out of these circumstances. Importantly, do not relax, life continues!

Other participants offered FORUMHOUSE Hope to raise money to restore the economy. She thanked him and declined.

NadWas

Many thanks for the offer of help, but I think there are people who are more in need. We will try to steer themselves. Just like the curve of life gradually began to rise up, and then bam! and we must begin with the cons.

It happens often: it never rains but it pours. Fate seemed to check the strength of the people. Failures fell one after another. It got to the offensive: disappearing bookmark in the incubator. But these wonderful people did not lose hands, it seems nothing can not cope with such fortitude. They have optimized the farm to the new realities, for example, where there were cages for birds, greenhouses made under the seedlings. Dacha still remained the only source of income, and there was no choice - I had to make money and survive. And do not forget: the scene of the story - between Donetsk and Gorlovka, and this time again they could hear the bombing ...

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Just out of every plight has two options: to fall to the ground and beat her on the head, or to think about what else you can do yourself to improve this plight.

Husband Hope recovered, but for drugs middle son took 80% of pensions. The eldest son went to work in another country and had begun to send money. Husband again started to go to the market, selling onions (it was grown directly in the apartment), garlic and eggs.

Economy gradually recovered. Bought new rabbits, goats slowly began to acquire again. In the meantime, the main income gave a greenhouse. Here the most important thing was - to monitor the demand:

• strawberries on the market was a lot, but the strawberry NadWas It stands out from the total number. Firstly, because the woman has always tried to buy the newest and the best grades, her strawberry has been larger than the others, and secondly, it is not collected in the evening and early in the morning and drove to the market of fresh;
• blackberries ripening of early varieties of speculators willing to take small wholesale, and when entered the market the main competitors, Hope has sold almost all of its berries;
• about cucumbers and tomatoes, it became clear that in the exhaust gas to grow them for sale does not make sense. Film vegetables sold at a decent price, and the ground was a surplus, the price was the penny;
• rabbit meat is best to take in the winter, especially for the New Year. Kindling should be planned so that the bulk sale of meat accounted for the winter;
• milk is better to sell the cottagers on the spot market to carry cheeses.

To optimize the work done suburban drip and began to use selective herbicides for weed control. For bargain-hunting berries and vegetables on the market need to come as early as possible, so now in the plans of the family buying at least some of the machine.

conclusions

This story proves once again that it is always possible to find opportunities for fair and decent life. Of course, not everyone has the strength to cope with such difficulties, but efforts in the right direction, always give result.

NadWas

All heroism is worthy of desire to survive in these circumstances. It would be desirable to have a stable income to suburban area. substantial income! The fact that they put, should not only ugly, but also give a good profit.

Learn how to develop this story villa farmYou can of topics NadWas on FORUMHOUSE. Other inspiring examples can be found in Peasant household. Farm. Read our article about the garden of the mind, without the hassle, and that Does it make sense to pay more for domestic products. Watch a video about the history of the family, had moved to relocate to the countryside.

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