A disabling injury can change what is the best way to earn money on a farm. Here are 100 ways to adapt a farm business th
at could be more accessible to a worker after a disabling injury or illness. You don’t have to quit the farm…just do it different! At Disability Work Tools, we have a whole host of ideas how to help you adapt tools and equipment to help you keep working your dream job on the farm.
| ag equipment sales & custom marketing |
| ag tourism…corn maze, pumpkins, fall decor |
| aquaculture |
| archery range/shooting range |
| auctioneer |
| bait worms/insects |
| bed & breakfast |
| berry farming |
| calf raising |
| cashmere goats, angora rabbits, geese for down |
| cattle buyer for butcher or slaughter house |
| Christmas trees |
| corn shocks, small straw bales, fall décor |
| cow/calf operation |
| craft gourds |
| CSA – garden and livestock sold on shares |
| custom composting |
| custom farming…tillage, baling straw, drilling wheat, etc… |
| custom gardening for other people at their homes |
| custom heifer raising |
| dried peppers |
| dry beans marketing and sales |
| ear corn, beets, carrots for deer/squirrel bait/feed |
| eggs and meat chicken sales |
| egg grading for other growers |
| excavating |
| farm accounting records |
| farm supply sales…seed, chemicals, fertilizer |
| farm equipment assembly for local implement dealer |
| farm weekend getaway..live farm experience for city folks |
| feed, seed, fertilizer, farm supply sales |
| fertilized chicken egg/incubator school loan program |
| field rocks for sale and rock gardens |
| firewood processing and sales |
| flour mill- whole wheat, rye, barley, rice |
| flowers- dried, cut flowers, potted flowers, greenhouses |
| freezer beef |
| freezer pork |
| fruit sales |
| fur farming/tanning hides |
| game ranch/hunting preserve |
| goat milk shares, cow milk shares |
| government program specialist |
| grain sales/marketing |
| grafting/plant propagation & sales |
| harness making and sales |
| hay sales/broker |
| herbs and spices, dried |
| heritage turkeys |
| honey bees |
| horse boarding (for a fee) |
| hunting feed plots installation, game management consulting |
| Indian corn |
| insects for collectors |
| iron working |
| lab animals |
| lamb sales |
| land clearing (fence rows, brush, etc…) |
| lawn care |
| lawn furniture/ woodworking |
| laying hen sales |
| livestock transporter |
| manure/compost marketing |
| maple syrup and maple sugar sales |
| meat goats |
| meat marketing for local farms who raise freezer beef or pork |
| meat processing/butcher |
| meat rabbits |
| mums |
| mushrooms |
| nutrient management and record keeping |
| pasture-based livestock farm |
| pet sitting |
| pigeons for squab |
| pigs – feeders for sale |
| political animal rentals/animal training |
| popcorn on the cob |
| marketing produce– farm market, internet, mail order, farm stand |
| raise game birds for hunt clubs |
| research field trials or research test plots |
| rodent control |
| sawmill – portable |
| sign painting |
| show fitting/grooming/custom show animals |
| sleigh/buggy rides |
| smokehouse |
| soil sampling for a local co-op (could be done from a 4-wheeler) |
| specialty livestock…reindeer, llama, etc… |
| start garden plants |
| storage in barns (lawnmowers, boats, campers) |
| Texas mounts |
| therapy-gardening/animal/farm |
| tree nursery/propagation |
| upick garden or fruit |
| value added products-jams, jelly, dried fruit, etc… |
| veal |
| wild rice |
| wood processing/milling – trim, moulding, tongue & groove |
| wool products and sales |
| yogurt, dairy processing |