> I don't even know how you'd approach starting from scratch unless you were already rich. Well, you are not going to start any kind of business without some k

> I don't even know how you'd approach starting from scratch unless you were already rich. Well, you are not going to start any kind of business without some kind of working capital. To be rich, for some definition of rich, is always a necessity when starting a business. That is not exclusive to farming. I'm not sure farming is any worse than any other business[1], though. I have started a number of businesses in my day and the farm was probably the easiest of them to get into. Like any startup without venture capital – you start as small as possible, prove the business model, and then slowly work towards growth. > A tiny 100 acre farm's land is worth north of 1 million dollars Ah, if only. Imagine how easy farming would be if 100 acres was only $1MM! We haven't seen farmland that cheap around here in 20 years. [1] Maybe software has an edge if you can find success with nothing but a budget computer, but your time commitment is going to be many orders of magnitude larger, so I expect it still requires more working capital in the end.