Restaurants would be easier and less laborious and I'm not exactly a social butterfly. Would be more stress in growing and delivering consistently though.
Raspberries? Interesting. Would grow good here in the acid soil where wild blueberries and blackberries grow. Lot of grape growers up near where I work but they all grow for the wineries up there or are also a winery.
I tend to forget about small fruits because I rarely buy them because they're so expensive. Hmm, $20lb, for berries or filet mignon?
There's a pretty good ole farming book called Ten Acres Enough by Edmund Morris.(1864) -- A practical experience, showing how a very small farm may be made to keep a very large family https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48753
Starts with little money, small acres and grows many things but specializes in bush fruits. Gathers leaves from everywhere they can to amend the soil and mulch with.
I say I tend to forget about them but I have thought more than a few times about what part of the property I would like to grow some on. Can't help think of it when you see them growing wild all around. I used to subsist off of blueberries when I was a kid spending my days in the woods in MA. Mostly the little ones but there was one place with tall plants and dime sized berries. Kind of a knoll so I called it Blueberry Hill.
No liming them. Fruit trees too. Goats would have to go. Not enough land to do everything I'd like to do.
I'm surrounded by a gazillion pounds of meat anyway, cattle. The ideal thing to do would be barter fruits and veggies for beef.
I watch a lot of market gardener videos, mostly no-till, which keeps me in the itch. How can ya not love this?
I lost an acre of land a couple of years ago. Was 8 acres but someone bought the property next to me and had it surveyed. According to the new survey, the survey from the 80s had the back line off by 40 foot. That back line is 1,100 foot long for me. 40 x 1,100 is 44,000 sq ft, just over an acre. It's the junkier side, slanted and loaded with rocks/boulders.
Of the 7 acres that remain, about half is flatish with good top soil and about 2 acres of it rock free. I could put a terrace or two on the South end where it drops to hill. Would make harvesting berries a lot easier on the back and that's where the wild blueberries grew before goats. Do a swale above that for fruit trees and to prevent the top terrace from being waterlogged from rain runoff. Let the swale run off the ends where the heavy rain event wet weather creeks are already.
Above that, row crops and high tunnels. Above that, the house and outbuildings. Most of the flat area will have a view of this ridge in the background once I clear enough trees. My truck is sitting in front of driveway and my flatish area goes from there down on the left side of the road and property ends about half way down the hill.
Little Bitty Acres