A GOOD investment for spare cash

Discussion in 'Economics' started by Humpy, Aug 20, 2011.

  1. if upfront costs are no object and you really want to save labor check out the NYC garden, I just saw it on PBS.

    They use massive pine beams to make waist high raised beds so you don't even have to bend over.

    I don't know what the life expectancy of a 4 x 4 untreated pine beam with one side covered in compost is, but carrots will have to go sky high or we will have to start trading the Comfort Index to get our moneys worth.
     
    #31     Aug 21, 2011
  2. This is amusing as our families' several hundred acre farmland is worth less then a small apartment in NYC.

    Just how much do you think farmland costs?

    We will sell ours for $100K/acre (probably worth a few thousand/acre right now).

    JJacksET4
     
    #32     Aug 21, 2011
  3. Just one example of cheap farm land - noone who screams to buy up farmland ever seems to put their money where their mouth is.

    http://www.pifers.com/view.php?id=1367

    JJacksET4
     
    #33     Aug 21, 2011
  4. 97 acres? I had 80 acres of prime farmland in Iowa I used to rent and finally nobody wanted to farm it anymore because they said it was too expensive to move all the machinery around for just 80 acres.
     
    #34     Aug 21, 2011
  5. Lucrum

    Lucrum

    What I was looking for is how many acres, generally speaking, would it take to feed an average family of four, independent of any other sources of food.
     
    #35     Aug 21, 2011
  6. It was just one example - you can easily find 100s of acres for sale for various prices, but nowhere near what things in NYC cost, what gold costs, etc. And then we always have people coming on here saying to buy farmland - just a few rich guys could easily buy up 90% of farmland in the U.S. if they really wanted to IMO.
     
    #36     Aug 21, 2011
  7. oh I got ya. Very little. 25 x 25 ft will provide all the vegetables you can eat. A little more if you do a lot of canning. 1 acre and you can add chickens, and some fruit trees and berry bushes. Rabbits if you have the heart to kill them. And many more I don't know what all. But now if you're going to grind your own corn for flour and want a dairy cow then I guess 5 acres.
     
    #37     Aug 21, 2011
  8. I hear ya, but then again my whole county is probably worth less than 1 building in NYC.
     
    #38     Aug 21, 2011
  9. at anyrate, price not withstanding, that 159 acres looked beautiful. And everything about it sounded wonderful. You know, they're not making any more of it right now.
     
    #39     Aug 21, 2011