A New Farming Method Offers an Opportunity to Return to Land

While starting a modestly-sized farm of your own is guaranteed to give you some pretty rich dividend (most especially if the farm actually gets to produce the niche foods such as artisanal cheeses or even truffles), it is not enough for you to actually say that you can quit your job and focus on the work on the farm on a full time basis.

Learn from Others’ Experiences

Sara Beth Aubrey is one person who followed such an advice a couple of years ago. According to her, she found herself feeling so sick of driving herself to and from work that she decided to finally pay attention and scratch the entrepreneurial itch by coming up with her own company called Aubrey’s Natural Meats. This company focused its operations on a sparse of land that is thity-one hectares in length in Elmwood, Indiana. Here, she and her husband Cary focused on raising their own cattle and pigs.

Great Beginnings

Now thirty-three years old, Sara Beth Aubrey had grown up in a farm in her native Illinois and there enjoyed the opportunity to actually be crowned as first runner up in the national Polled Hereford Queen when she was only twenty years old. She also earned a bachelor’s degree which focused on agricultural communications and then worked at the agribusiness consulting firm in Indianapolis. There, she also worked as a financial planner. However, she was feeling very frustrated at the thought of actually working for another person. It was as if she was being drowned and was well aware of it, likening her situation to that of a water that was dripping down the sides of a cave, forming a puddle and before you know it you are soaked.

Sara Beth Aubrey started her own meat venture sometime during fall 2003 with Cary, her husband. Cary and Sara Beth were a good team - with Sara Beth’s agribusiness communications skill and Cary’ experience as a cattle raiser. Their business is well and thriving, albeit being unable to totally pay for all the bills they have each and every month. Of course, Cary Aubrey shares that he has decided to keep working on his state job as an agricultural specialist while his wife says that she has also come to terms with her business by improving it based on the learning she was able to het from many books. Her first and foremost recommendation to other would-be agribusiness owners is that they need to learn how to slowly wean themselves from the outside source of income in order to focus on the matter and eventually create their own contingency fund which can be used in the absence of windfalls or lulls in the business.