Hi All

I want to start a lavender farm in the town of bright and was wondering what outlay was involved, including machinery and what return i could get?

Any advice would be appreciated.

Hi

I've been reading almost all of the threads here about starting up a hobby farm.

I would love to set up a hobby farm, but I need to know if I can afford a large enough land holding to replace the income I would be giving up by selling my city home and buying a rural property.

Thought the best way was to introduce ourselves, we are from the Sunshine Coast and are in the midst of working towards selling our business, and

house this year. Once done we are looking at buying a farm more Hobby than full time in the the surrounding area. We would like to have a few cattle smaller breeds, horses by 2 for the kids and wife, chickens ect and look at sustainable practises, solar, use of water, grow veggies ect.

We have 19 acres and I have 4 horses & 2 goats.  The property has 2 large paddocks which have been used for farming sometime ago and they have furrows through them.  I have a great property manager behind us who looks after 400 acres.  He cut our hay when we moved in and will be spraying, rotary hoeing, flattening and seeding our pastures so they are flat and can be used properly.  We will only be doing 1 paddock this autumn due to his time constraints.

Hi Guys,

Found this forum using google and have had a read of some posts and wanted to make a post of my own and reach out for some advise.

I've been working in Real Estate for the last 3 yrs or so and before that was in the media for about 10 but i hate the city...always have!

I'm wanting to start a cattle farm but honestly... don't know where to start or what areas to look at starting it up.

I currently live in Melbourne but would be open to moving pretty much anywhere to start our new life.