Is small farming profitable?

[asly]

I have a friend who raises figs. He started with only one plant and became rather obsessed. He now raises several types, large and small, the kind you peel and the kind you eat the skin too. He is always on the local farm tour and it's a wonderful tasty figgy tour through his place. I had only eaten fig newtons before this place. His wife sells fruits, veggies and plants at the farmer's market. He told me that the figs are the hardest sale, as lots and lots of people just aren't willing to buy them, don't know how to eat or cook with them, and just overall unaware of them and steer away - again, like me, only experience was fig newtons. Further, their shelf life is VERY short - I think. And they are a huge bu or bee problem. Not sure that I would raise too many of them for a small farm venture, but that's just me.

And then, I dreamt of Hawaii... http://crazypineappledream.blogspot.com/