I have grown and sold blackberries, gooseberries, black currents and the like. However it takes several years before the bushes produced enough to sell. My customers were farmer markets and catering companies.

Sunflowers are a good seller if you have lots of folks that drive by, as are other kinds of flowers, Pumpkins, indian corn are always a good seller in the fall again if you have the traffic to make it worth while..

For myself, I have good luck with seedlings, cuttings, plants, vegggies, herbs, etc.

My customers are word of mouth for years.

Your best resource there might be Marjory Wildcraft's backyard food production video.

Not where I thought this was going. 😉 'cash crop' has a pretty specific meaning in bc!

I have grown two types of soft head lettuce and three types of beetroot.
From that I mixed all the leaves into a salad greens mix and sold it in 500g bags.
It was a really good seller...but a three day heatwave in spring made all the lettuce bolt to seed, then a 2 month heatwave/drought this summer killed any thoughts of replanting.
But I will do it again next season as it sold so well 😀

Tomatoes are always good sellers as well and worth a try.

I just realized why you don't want to do herbs.

I would say grow "extra" of something that you already eat.

I was thinking of doing decorative corn and some funky gourds this year.
I wanted to go to a flea market one weekend to sell them.

I always figured that if there was some sort of long term break down of transportation and logistics, learning the ins and outs of sugar beats would be a good barter strategy. I'm guessing there isn't any where within a 1000 miles that could grow sugar cane, and for a long time beat sugar was the norm in the more northern temperate climates until refined sugar and modern logistics came along...

I always figured that if there was some sort of long term break down of transportation and logistics, learning the ins and outs of sugar beats would be a good barter strategy. I'm guessing there isn't any where within a 1000 miles that could grow sugar cane, and for a long time beat sugar was the norm in the more northern temperate climates until refined sugar and modern logistics came along...

I guess you would be surprised to know that sugar beets is still a large crop for southern ontario.

I always figured that if there was some sort of long term break down of transportation and logistics, learning the ins and outs of sugar beats would be a good barter strategy. I'm guessing there isn't any where within a 1000 miles that could grow sugar cane, and for a long time beat sugar was the norm in the more northern temperate climates until refined sugar and modern logistics came along...

I guess you would be surprised to know that sugar beets is still a large crop for southern ontario.

Indeed!

I guess I'm just used to seeing mostly corn and soy where I am and I can't recall ever seeing beet sugar on a self... Is it a complicated process to go from beet to sugar?

Lol well Farmgal gave me a run down on it. What she told me was far easier then what I had been told. Most of the sugar beets that are growing in mass fields used to be down Sarnia way.

There are still many sugar beet growers down Sarnia way in Lambton County. Every time I drive to Sarnia I get to go past a few of these fields. 🙂