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Pay Dirt: How To Make $10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden…A Review and a Giveaway.

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Pay Dirt: How To Make 10,000 a Year From Your Backyard Garden is a good book. It was a bit of a struggle for me to get through though. It was much more of a business book than I was expecting. That being said Pay Dirt does have some information  on  vegetables and herbs that can be raised as cash crops. What I found the most interesting was the author’s take on marketing for selling at Farmer’s Markets. His idea for a Salsa System (page 199), I think is great. Basically take a few tomatoes, scallions, jalapenos, and cilantro in the correct amounts to make salsa. Package it in a nice basket along with a lime and a recipe and, voila an attractive way to sell your produce. I’d recommend this book to anyone looking to make a few bucks out of their  garden or those looking to take their home produce business up a notch.

I’ll be giving this book away on Friday (12/2). To be eligible to win leave a comment on this post by Midnight on Thursday (12/1). I’ll randomly select a comment and announce the winner on Friday’s Gear Review Blog.

If you missed last week’s review check it out here.

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  3. This could help me a LOT, I bet. I try to grow as much as I can for my home. Am planning on building another raised bed to seperate the root veggies from the others and move the tomatos to an old flower bed along the house foundation. Not going to add any non-edible plants to my yard anymore, only things I can eat.

  5. I’ve read some backyard homesteading books and keep moving toward the concept of being more self-sufficient. I’ll add this to my “gotta read” list.

    Thanks.
    Eric

  7. Hi, I’m a new follower and I love the tone of your blogs. I dream of a huge four season garden but family responsibilities (I am my 86 yr. old grandfathers’ primary care-taker) limit my garden managing to a smaller plot. In the next stage of my life I hope to be far more self sufficient but your blogs have helped me to feel good about what I am doing now on a limited scale. I think this book would help me get through the rough days now – day dreaming of gardening for more than a couple hours at a time – and in the future when my dreams will hopefully become a reality!
    Thanks for all your time and effort making these blogs,
    Kris

  9. Sounds like an interesting book, thanks for the review. I’m planning on selling at a small local Farmer’s Market next year, mainly craft items, but also whatever excess is available from the garden.

  11. Sounds interesting. I am interested to see how you can get a whopping $10,000 though. I don’t think I have that much time to invest as well as keep up with other responsibilities, but might be interesting to find out. I am not into much business talk either, but that is how you make money.

  12. Sounds like a great book! As a single mom, I can always use extra income & if I can achieve that through something I already love doing, that’s a great bonus!

  16. I will be building my first temporary greenhouse for starting seeds for my patio container gardening. My ultimate goal is to buy land and build an edible and medicinal garden and orchard. I can’t believe one year ago self-sufficiency, and my green quest was non-existent! Would love the book!

  17. Just found your blog via Homestead Revival. The books sounds interesting. Would love to add it to my library!

  19. This book sounds like an excellent addition to my resource library, all about homesteading, gardening, canning and self-sufficiency. In today’s economy, earning a little income doing what I love the most sounds like heaven :D.

  22. Sounds like it would be a good for the newbie wanting to start a farm-to-market company, which I think is a great idea and it might help me get locally grown produce established in my community.

  24. I’d love to read this one! Dealing with some cuts to our budget it’d give me a chance to not only streamline our garden but get back a little for my family.

  25. Since ripping out my front yard last year to make way for edible gardens I have been wondering how to make it payoff, more than it does by allowing us to have fresh homegrown food all year long. This is going to be an awesome resource. Can’t wait to get my hands on it!

  26. We have been discussing farmers markets for some time now. If anything there would be a lot to learn just by selling at a market. I will have to pick this one up!

  27. Very interested in this book! Closing on my homestead on the 9th and food production for income is very high on my list of to-do’s!

  29. I’m very happy to have found your blog. With just moving into my home and now having a place I can call my own, I plan on starting my self sufficient stage of life. This site will be an inspiration and a useful knowledge base to get me started.

    Thank you for sharing with all of us.

  31. The book looks very interesting. I feel like we are being prepared for the coming days, and would like to help others prepare also. The time for practicing is now. Thank you for the help you have given. We have changed the way we thinking and turning our yard into a much more practical way of living. Earning money while doing this, helps us to give to others. We have formed some rewarding like-minded friends as we head into the times that are coming. Being able to help each other is a very rewarding place to be. May you and your be richly rewarded.