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Growing Into Your Farm’s Success

   December 3, 2025  26 Comments on Growing Into Your Farm’s Success

You don’t have to get everything right on day one. Our farm’s success grew from its strong roots, and changed over time. Your farm SHOULD change as you learn the best way to direct your labor and grow to understand where your farm fits into the local marketplace. Join me as I explain how our farm’s products, marketing strategy, and labor focus has changed over the years, evolving into the successful direct-to-consumer small livestock farm we have today.

Note:
-We do not offer farm tours or accept visitors
-We do not sell from the farm
-We do not ship our farm’s products
-We do not sell live animals

Mailing Address:
Just a Few Acres Farm
PO Box 269
Lansing, NY 14882

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/justafewacresfarm/?hl=en

To order Pete’s book; “A Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres:” https://www.amazon.com/Year-Day-Just-Few-Acres/dp/149549957X/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2NM8AQPCG3IT5&dchild=1&keywords=a+year+and+a+day+on+just+a+few+acres&qid=1587327049&sprefix=a+year+and+a+day+on+just%2Caps%2C183&sr=8-1

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26 thoughts on “Growing Into Your Farm’s Success”

  3. Question as it pertains to Butchering…do you butcher your own products or do you take to a USDA approved butcher and pass along that butchering cost to consumers? Really like your “Direct to Consumer” approach. Something that is not as common here in my area of South Carolina. There are a small handful of local farms that do sell direct to consumer but nothing like you mentioned where you have 20-30 farms in a 30 mile radius.

  9. HI there again Pete from NZ. My first goal was to grow my own vegetables, fruit, nuts and meat. But, your experience and business model show what and how to do it. I see that making a small business with poultry and eggs is a good starting point. Thank you so much for sharing your true life experiences in a dimple down to earth way!

  15. Excellent advice…reasonable “hard plans” critical but be adaptable and also plan for contingencies as you are in a “active business war zone” (so to say). An example would be an actual war, you can set plans in place for it BUT be prepared for the sudden battlefield shifts that can ruin things (to various degrees).
    COVID certainly brought its own set of frustrations…

  16. Pete, you have quite a team of people who make you're farm go, Hillary is one hell of a great work partner, and then you have you're dad who helps you, and then you work with tractors that haven't costed you an arm and a leg, you love what you are doing, that must help, I'm no farmer, but I love watching you do what you do so well, and then you make great videos to help someone like me know what you're doing. Keep up the good work.

  21. Have watched a few of your videos over the past couple weeks. This one was one I needed to see. I'm in the process of buying 9.5 acres. Once the farmer renting the field harvests this fall I'm looking to turn it into pasture. I will be starting with an old John Deere B that belonged to my Grandpa. I thought about starting with hay, and trying to use money from that to build up the pasture. I'll have to look into farmers markets, to do research. I live a few hours away from Murray McMurray hatchery. I just need to figure a few things out since I work 2nd shift. So aside from chicken tractors, have to design a coop that doesn't require me to close the door behind the hens at night (no hens on pasture)

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