Hi Everyone, The newlyweds are home and settling in. The new hubby thinks we should buy the lot next door which is for sale and set me up in a greenhouse business! Wow, did I pick a good one or what? The lot belongs to a defunct school and had a double-wide on it. The neat thing is that there are nine concrete strips across the lot where the trailer was tied down, along with the tie down hardware. (Sorry I don't know the technical terms for this stuff.) It would make the perfect site for a good sized hoop house. The paths and a way to anchor the greenhouse are already there!

My house is a little stone cottage and would make a great herb/giftshop type place if I could actually get this idea to make money. (We plan to build an earth shelter home elswhere.)I've been reading books and collecting an enourmous amount of material on running an herb business for a few years now. I also have several years retail sales experience, everything from clerk to manager to buyer to inventory and shipping experience as well as payables and receivables. I'm excited! One day I might get to do a job I actually love!

Please notice I have a new e-mail address also:windfish@toto.net.

Thanks for listening, I've missed chatting with you all.

-- Anonymous, August 06, 2001

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Debra, you go girl! Follow those dreams! Like Joseph Campbell says Follow your Bliss! I'm wishing you the BEst of Luck! Have fun! Let us know how it goes! Love Tren

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Ye Ha sounds like a plan to me. Sounds to me like you've got a keeper.Enjoy ... Sherry

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Wow, sounds like a great idea. And I'm glad you're back!

I'll go change your email addy on the list of members.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

How exciting Debra! I'm jealous. :) It sounds like you have both the skills and the desire to make a go of it.

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

I'd love to have a greenhouse...even a small one!!

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Hey debra! Sounds interesting!! And congratulations on that newlywed status! Oh and welcome back, too!

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

This sounds fabulous! Are you planning on going organic with it? Do keep us all up to date on how it goes. A guy that I know locally started out with a tree removal/limbing service, that gradually grew and grew, so that now he has a huge fleet of trucks, is doing landscaping and pond installations, has a crew of around 30 working for him, and has gone into the greenhouse business.

His greenhouse venture started out with a little log cabin and a couple of small hoop houses, put up shade cloth to the side and threw down the wood chips that he'd gotten from limbing business and set up benches there as well, and started selling perennials from there as well. It has become a HUGE business, with really big hoop houses, complete with brick paver flooring, indoor ponds (for sale of course) garden furniture, fancy planted baskets of flowers, etc and is just going great guns. He definitely built a better mousetrap for our area and is always expanding (not that you may want to do that indefinitely...). He was selling specialty items to the area and has made a real go of it, and even found a chainsaw carver who works on the premises with the tree trunks that the tree removal service supplies, and those sell super fast, even tho they're hundreds to thousands of dollars.

Good luck, sounds like it could be a winner!!! And once again, congratulations to the newly weds!

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2001

Kewl Deb! I hope it works out well for you. Do ya'll remember the CS thread about www.freeplants.com ?

It was about this guy, MIke McGroarty I think. His thing is micro nurserys. He sells info on how to get started etc. You might wanna take a look at this Deb.

-- Anonymous, August 10, 2001

Thank you! everyone for your encouragment to follow my dream, well one of them anyway. Yep, it will definately be organic all the way. I'm chatting with the point of contact guy on Mon. morning again about it

By the way we are buying this property from the Catholic church and they don't use realtors here. Guess they don't want to pay a realtor his cut. Fortunatley, I have a friend who is a whiz bang realtor to advise me. Thanks again, I'll let you know how it goes.

Now, where did I put those "How To Run a Gardening Business" books........

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001

That's great Deb! It's one of the things I was gonna get to on my farm too. In fact, we bought and disassembled a 30 x 60 foot complete commercial set up a couple years ago. Its still sitting in the yard, in pieces, cuz we never could decide where the best place was to set it up, and always seemed to be too much else to do. Too bad you're so far away.......

-- Anonymous, August 12, 2001