Build a small, community-focused homestead + farm business that:

• Feeds our family
• Generates year-round income
• Becomes a place people return to (like Torres Family Lights)
• Supports a simple, hands-on lifestyle outdoors

• Produce at scale for income
• Feed ourselves from that same production

• Focus on legal, low-barrier products
• Avoid overcomplication

• Weekly income
• Seasonal spikes
• Experience-based income

• Automate repetitive tasks
• Stay hands-on where it matters

• House
• Kitchen garden (daily harvest items)
• Patio / relaxing area
• Light-use chickens (optional)

• Flowers
• Vegetables
• High-rotation crops

• Apples
• Peaches
• Pears

• Pumpkins
• Sunflowers
• Seasonal crops

• U-pick zones
• Farm stand
• Christmas lights
• Event space (future)

• Peonies (spring)
• Sunflowers (summer + U-pick)
• Zinnias, cosmos (continuous production)
• Mums (fall)

• Apples (fall anchor)
• Peaches (summer income)
• Pears (support crop)

• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Beans
• Squash

• 20–50 hens
• Weekly consistent income

• Honey production
• Pollination support

• Pumpkins
• Mums
• Apples
• Sunflowers (late plantings)

• Torres Family Lights
• Hot cocoa / cider sales
• Woodworking products

• Cutting boards
• Farm stand builds
• Signs and gifts
• Year-round income buffer

• Meat rabbits (later phase)

• Flowers
• Eggs
• Vegetables
• Fruit

• Jams (peach, berry, etc.)
• Honey

• Tomato sauce (family use only)

• Farm stand (primary)
• U-pick (flowers, fruit)
• Facebook community + local groups
• Existing Torres Family Lights audience

• Peonies
• Early flowers
• Garden starts

• Flowers (main income)
• Vegetables
• Peaches
• Eggs

• Apples
• Pumpkins
• Mums
• Sunflowers

• Christmas lights
• Cocoa / cider
• Woodworking

• Self-fertile but plant multiple varieties
• Early / Mid / Late for extended harvest

• Early: Candor, Derby
• Mid: Contender, Redhaven
• Late: Elberta, Cresthaven

• Long-term crop
• Build slowly over time

• 12–15 ft tree spacing
• 15–18 ft row spacing
• Grass (fescue) between rows
• Mulch ring around trees

• 30–36” wide beds
• 18–24” paths
• Clean, organized rows

• Succession planting (every 1–2 weeks)
• Mix of:
  • Sunflowers
  • Zinnias
  • Cosmos
  • Fillers (basil, mint)

• “Free-range-ish” with enclosure
• Automated coop door
• Simple feeding/watering system

• Start small (2 hives)
• Expand over time
• Focus on:
  • Honey
  • Pollination

• Irrigation
• Chicken coop door
• Environmental alerts

• Complex dashboards
• Unnecessary automations

Free time → observation + meaningful work

1. Fix credit (collections cleanup)
2. Build savings ($3k–$10k)
3. Start small income streams now

• Prefer lease/use land first
• Buy later using:
  • USDA programs
  • Veteran benefits

• Backyard learning
• Sell small (flowers, woodworking)
• Fix credit

• Increase side income
• Build audience

• Secure land (lease or buy)
• Start production farm

• Add orchard + chickens
• Farm stand

• Add U-pick + events
• Expand experiences

• Live and work on the land
• Be outside daily
• Build something with purpose
• Be part of the community
• Create a place people return to

👉 Keep it simple
👉 Build it step by step
👉 Focus on what actually makes money
👉 Protect the feeling of “home”

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