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Small plants have a value.   People happily give you money for small plants.  Therefore the more you have available the larger your plant savings account grows.
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In times of high inflation, commodities are one of the 1st places people invest their wealth in the hope of it retaining its value. While taking delivery of barrels of oil or bushels of wheat might lie outside the budget, shipping capacity and storage space of most.

We may have other options available like small plants or trees. One interesting aspect to consider is plants and trees tend to grow physically larger over time, which only increases their value. Not only can plants be an investment but they can also appreciate in value over time, earning interest.

Nuts and fruit from trees can be sold on amazon for profit. Prices are skyrocketing at the moment. I have seen lychee fruit selling on amazon for $17 a pound. It is higher priced per unit than almonds.

If food shortages hit. The value of plants, fruits, nuts and trees could rise dramatically. Which could make it a decent place to invest wealth in planning for future inflation.

Right.

It is always been part of my dream to own not just a backyaed full of fruit bearing trees but an actual farm where I become a producer of it.

Not just in nearby towns but in most cities. This pandemic has given us the thoughts of how things can change quickly if we are not prepared for the worst.

It all started as a hobby while being on locked down into a dream and little by little will become a real thing as plan being executed.

Farming was never a bad idea in developed countries. Farmers in US and Japan are extremely rich and earn more than many top executives. But in many other corrupted countries, farmers live a miserable life. If you are looking for investment, fossil fuel is still a better choice if you can store it in proper condition. But yes, trees and plants can provide recurring returns over a long period of time. Also if you can do the right packaging, you can build a brand out of it.

What you are saying is essentially: Farming particularly for nuts and fruits, this indeed needs a lot of work as well, it cannot also be done on the side lines since at the end of the day it would need proper space, Investment, quality control, making sure you use manure and GMO sometimes can be expensive, you can also take loans for it in the start and repay along the way, I don't think it would work for most people since most of them already have a job and cannot dedicated time to at least 50 saplings to make profits on a larger scale so they would consider leaving it. You also need proper education in that regards but if you succeed you would definitely be making money in most developed countries in the developing ones most of them are farmers so doesn't really work like that.

What you are saying is essentially: Farming particularly for nuts and fruits, this indeed needs a lot of work as well, it cannot also be done on the side lines since at the end of the day it would need proper space, Investment, quality control, making sure you use manure and GMO sometimes can be expensive, you can also take loans for it in the start and repay along the way, I don't think it would work for most people since most of them already have a job and cannot dedicated time to at least 50 saplings to make profits on a larger scale so they would consider leaving it. You also need proper education in that regards but if you succeed you would definitely be making money in most developed countries in the developing ones most of them are farmers so doesn't really work like that.

I think it is an easier plan for those who reside in tropical regions. Who have growing seasons year round, without having to contend with winter frost. I have fruit trees that produce fruit without me giving them fertilizer or compost. Sun, rain and whatever minerals and worm castings are naturally found in the environment appear to be enough for them.

Its more difficult for those in cities. But even they might drive to the outskirts and find a woodland area no one is using to stash their plants. Guerilla gardening has been a thing for a long time as far as I know.

It could also be good for city planners to include more space for communal gardens and areas to help reduce concrete heat island effect. Plants clean the air and reduce smog and pollutants. Having more of them in a city can only improve things.

The thing is you need a large yard if you want to have a garden to fulfill your daily life foods, if you only have small yard, your plants won't enough to fill your daily foods. If your house doesn't have a large yard, you need to buy land and it's expensive. It's just a cost for land alone and you need to buy seeds, moss, etc etc to take care your plants. It's not really that easy to grow a plants, but this is a good diversification of investment.

Farm for crops I think is what I would consider the most to be self sufficient in times where there is food shortage. Fruit bearing trees is one but it does have seasons which they bear fruit once every year only.

In India, we use to have cows in every home because this tend will feed us which we get milk everyday. This is going to be sufficient at least not going to be dependent to the day job.

Mark Moss advices to buy ranch too. 

How Buying a Ranch Can Help You Increase Your Personal Sovereignty
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydND55lfA10

I have never viewed plants like this and I think I have changed my perspective on it. I do want to utilize the space that we have got at my house to convert it to something like this. I would really like to do this knowing that it could be fruitful in terms of the future. It's really one thing that I would want when I have a large space of my own. Now what I'm thinking of is how I can make sure that I'm on the right track on doing this. I need to think long term.

This is really interesting IMO.

That is a very good idea. I've already done it once, but sadly, I lacked the investment to purchase bigger pots to replace the small pots from the seedlings. As the plants/trees grow you have to transplant them into bigger pots. That is unfortunate, but each plastic big pot is absurdly expensive here and the only option was to purchase on the internet, which turned into being even more expensive, because the transport fees.

Now I'm thinking about bottles of wine. I've heard it's a very profitable investment on long run. In fact, more profitable than assets. If you have a good taste for wines, know the grapes and the wineries, that might be a good idea for you!

I know people love plants. I did a venture a few years ago too - and I was profitable too. But I feel ill and I didn't have another back support and most of my plants died. This is very good small business idea. If you have a sunny space and a back up support as well. I would love to do it again when I have an investment.

That's right. I like this idea. Especially if one has an idle piece of land, it should be planted with plants and trees. If one cannot afford to spend time everyday taking care of plants, one could simply choose to plant trees, fruit-bearing trees in particular. Not only do trees help the environment, they also provide food or even extra income.

What I noticed, though, is that young people nowadays are not anymore interested in small agricultural activities like planting and taking care of vegetables, root crops, and trees.

Interesting but the question is for how long there is opportunity in the commodities? We know very well how inflation works, it’s not permanent and every country is always at its best to increase the national income and reset the economic crisis.

World has just came out of worst pandemic (pretty much out). So what we see as opportunity at this point could turn out to be normal thing in the future.

But commodities is always good business if thought about for long terms.

Farming/planting plants are always a relevant investment when you have proper knowledge how to grow crops. Even If you're in a tropical country, there are still risk of failures.

Sad to say, not more people have actually think of it as a form of investment, while there are wide hectares of unused lands that could be use to plant crops that would potentially sell on the local market and even internationally. The main reason why, is the lack of knowledge. There were farmers who knew how to grow them but they don't have the financial capacity to do so.

I personally knew the "Falcata" tree which gives good 8-10 years of return with low maintenance costs and effort. This is most common in our region.

I remembered here in our country (PH) where moms and those who are just inside their houses because of the pandemic just got bored, and they needed to spend their time wisely and that is how growing small plants happen. Just to fight their boredom, they spent their time growing small plants and there are some who sells the plants they grew, and there are some who are selling it on live stream. These plants can be displayed at the front of the house etc.

It's good to see people at that time and even today spending time growing and selling their small plants. Easy money for their daily needs.

The only downside that I'm seeing in planting fruit-bearing trees is that it will take years before they will bear fruits, but once they will bear fruits, it will be continuous. Space can also be a problem as well for those who doesn't have enough space to plant trees with. This is also the reason why I want to buy an open-farm in the future. I want to plant fruit-bearing trees.

When I've read the topic I was thinking: tulips? LOL!  :D (no offense, one has to have fun now and then)


You're right, but there's a big "but":
One has to learn first. One has to understand the ways, else he will only waste time and money instead of getting any plants.
One has to sell plants with good potential, else the customers' plants will keep dying and the bad reviews may become a rule, not an exception.

This is how I see it. Plants are alive and it's not that easy to handle them. Also not all of them are suitable for any place in the world.

Anything physical has a value really, is just a question of choosing a storage that is cheap to maintain, easy to liquidate, easy to move,... So the idea of crops may be interesting, it has to be taken with a pinch of salt. Selling food in Amazon or in any other place requires a number of licences and it is not cheap.

There are ways to invest in those asset without the "DIY" element - that would be the funds that invest in forests or agricultural land. That should work as a good proxy for these.

Interesting. The problem however is that if this is encouraged on a larger scale food could become expensive and unaffordable.
I think it will be better if they handle this in such a way that foods become less expensive as more is produced, without compromising on quality.

This one is ideal for people who have a lot of spaces on the backyard and mostly this is applicable on provinces. But for people who live on cities well I doubt they can start to do this especially they are dealing with cements backyard and also small spaces on their houses.

 But really this is truly good idea to be made since you are not only helping yourself with this also you help other to have food on their plates and might you can contribute to the economy to if you make this as a business.

If you make connection with the nature - it teaches you patience and consistency.  I learnt it hard way, i was always in hurry and running around. By the time I started gardening. My mood and moral changed - btw it is not an easy task. You have to be very consistent and patients if you want to run a home based nursery.

Some plants need more care and are more fragile than others. These are problematic to grow, so I prefer the resistant ones, especially trees. I think fruit trees are a great choice, because even if you fail selling them, you can still gather fruits from them for yourself from times to times and maybe sell the fruits as well. There are some people who grow those fruit trees on the small areas of their apartments, so it's really executable, but as you said, a sunny spot is a must, otherwise they won't develop and will have diseases, especially due to fungus.

  Same us me  I rycicle some big pots in the garbage an I will it bring to my home to use it, since we all know that in our time all the products is our problem the very expensive to buy but some people can afford who are in a stable life , but just I think  beside I can save , and rycicle an the money I use instead to buy pots I give it into the child in the hallway so that I can help people who are really need it.

Plans are important things to do anything, without a good plan, we can be sure we will regret it, especially if we want to invest in Crypto which is a high risk investment because the price drops can reach hundreds of percent per year. With a good plan, we can have the opportunity to be a big profit.

Plant produce appreciate over time and it's most beneficial for perennial plants. Many still serve as exportable produce where it get even high value due to high demand from neighbouring countries. Agriculture has been the surest investment plan before oil and precious metals drifted the attention of investors

The market around plants, vegetables and flowers are too broad. Some do appreciate in value over time depending on the rarity of it and how well you will be able to grow it but not all. Also, if you would like to export the plants, you must either have a good amount of it or either has a great quality to even consider export, if not then stick with your local market. But then again it will depend on which plant you invest with.
On the other hand, I have seen a lot of people who chose to invest on mushrooms as it doesn't really require too much and you can grow on your backyard.

Plants could save everything so any investment or business involving planting will surely benefit not just us but also the environment. It could save us from hunger and even poverty in the future as well as natural disasters. I hope more people would appreciate the planting and see its worth not just as a material investment but also as environmental savings.

plant investment???
I don't know how to apply it whether we have to be farmers or farm or save some grain for resale.....
I myself am one of those people who invest my money in agriculture by buying land to plant, while the yield from the plantation depends on the market and supply so I don't claim the possibility of loss when the price is cheap but the garden (land) that we buy is definitely profitable because of the price. which tends to increase from year to year

Commodities should boom over the next decade it was going to happen even before current supply failures.    Simply we have a growing Global GDP and population and only so many resources to supply that demand, at the same time the oversupply of central bank debt has been excessive and does not relate to production.   That should mean the price of commodities rises strongly for many years.
  The reason to be cautious on any growth related product like this is commodities are a sector which can half in price at times.  Its not as easy as it appears, you will have competition on top of all the other worries the market is never entirely stable and some parts of the world are far better for producing then others.
    I think in a gold rush the man who sells shovels makes the most money as the supplier of all entrants at a known price and cost, so in this case that would be agriculture fertilizer which equates to the energy required to create massive amounts of produce year after year, season after season consistently to your customers.

I once worked on a project - that was so beautiful. A woman was running it. It was about edible garden.
Where on land you can have beautiful birds and rent the place for parties and have edible garden - by selling the crops you can make money. i always wish I could do that some point of time.

After reading OP I find out some problems with this idea. There is no doubt that planting tree for the long term is a good idea but commodities are better than this.

1. What if you need money urgently after a few years? The plant requires a lot of time and care to become a valuable asset. In this case, your gold or silver saving is a better option.

2. Plant needs money to be taken good care of. You need to water them and give them necessary medicine to grow but commodity like gold and silver only requires a place where they will be safe.

3. Your plant could be affected by a natural disaster which will not be in the case of a physical commodity.

Though I like to keep my savings in physical commodities but planting trees with some money is also preferable.

This is actually not a bad idea. Too bad though, not a lot of people are willing to put in the effort for these type of things. Because let's face it, taking care of plants isn't easy and requires tons of time and work. It isn't something you can just decide on a whim without a plan. Not to mention the basic knowledge required to nurture plants since every plant is different form the other having different needs to survive let alone grow well. This is why I really respect farmers that has acres of lands filled with a wide variety of plants. These people are amazing and something that the world cannot afford to lose.

That correct - Plants are life. We can survive without so many other luxuries but we cannot survive without food.
Having an organic and hygienic food is a very good idea. People are doing rooftop gardening. They are putting plants in their balconies and they are living their life eating healthy food.

Not bad but it's a very good idea. We already saw one sample of the op on how much a plant can cost. Imagine if you grow the plant well? Not only that but if the inflation hikes more or if there is a shortage in food? (as what the OP said) Which is expected.

I think the demand for plants are also going to skyrocket so more money will be poured for you. For us guys we think it's hard or we think we are lazy to do this type of work but what about women? Our wives, girlfriends, sisters? We can recommend it to them but we are only the ones that will provide capital for them to get started. The profit will be made is of course will be shared to the both of you.

We live in a world where everybody is in a haste. The virtue of patience seems to to going down the drain. People want to invest today and get profit immediately. This is the reason for the high rate of Ponzi schemes and scam establishments. Only few investors want to patient and watch their investment grow. Investing in agriculture is one of the less risky business ventures but people stay away from it because of lack of patience. It is some how not prone to inflation because food don't easily get substitute and its prices increases more frequently than it reduce. Recently my acquired few plots of land which would be used for palm oil plantation business and the financial analyst projected that he would start making profit in seven years. The question is how many investor would want to wait for seven years? I totally agree that plants can comfortably and reliably serve as a savings account.

Most of the people opt for organic way of giving fertilizer to the plants.
However not much big investment is need - what is needed is consistency and care to keep the plant growing - nothing special

actually planting plants to save for is very good, you have already invested in your old age. many businessmen are now starting to plant secondary crops, oil palm and other long-term crops so that you become a big businessman. but you face challenges and a long process of becoming a great person.

Organic fertilizer could be good for nature but it can not prevent the attack of insects. If you are a gardener or have fruit trees then you must have to know how much take care and medicine fruit trees need to prevent any disease or attack of insects. Sometimes small animals and birds makes problems by destroying fruits. It's not like you plant a tree and expect tons of fruits every year by doing nothing. Also if you are thinking about making business here by selling fruits then you must work with a big number of plants not a few of them.

Plants are life - the add to the beauty of the place and they give peace as well.
Did you know there are many plants which are called oxygen bombs, and keeping them indoor will keep your air fresh and clean.
Instead of artificial plants it is good to keep real plants.

With global warming new and new ideas are coming up associating money with reducing carbon emissions and planting green trees. This is a great concept with the kind of pollution and global warming goals. I think planting tree should have monitory benefits and such a move can greatly help to eradicate poverty and make world a more livable place

That's correct - in our country - our PM was so concerned about global warming that he led a campaign of 100billion tree Tsunami, also during corona - many people started this small home based business - people said that they got rid of depression and they started minting money.

I have to say things are getting to a level where its not even that weird because we had 2 years where everyone was at home and even that went by too fast. We think that if we are given enough money, we could live a more comfortable life and do what we love, but even when life gave us all the time we needed, we didn't do many things to be fair.

I get that life needs to slow down, and money is not the way for that, jobs are not the reason we stay same neither. So, people are living a fast life hence why money very quickly so that they could go back to regular life they used to have as well in order to continue without having too much trouble.

In my case, I plant because I love it.
I have tomatoes, lime, chili, and more small plants in my front yard but it's not for selling but for consumption whenever we need it. Yeah, most of them are plants who bear fruits and vegetables not designs like flowers. There are times neighbors visits and ask for some of it and I won't be selfish to give them especially if it ain't that much.
It saves us a lot of money in a manner but we don't really count them. It's just like a hobby that was stuck in me, I don't really know why.

In the Netherlands, "plants" are very profitable indeed, but if the police find out you get arrested O0

Food production is heavily regulated, and you can't just sell it in small quantities. For your own consumption it's allowed, but it's less time consuming to get a job and buy food in a shop. At least in countries with high wages.

I myself still have the idea to buy a land in the mountains and I will make a green tourism educational project where the place will be made a flower and fruit garden and several farms, this will be more profitable and we can relieve fatigue from working by seeing the beauty that exists and fresh air
but for now the obstacles are capital and land release which is not easy

Using plants as savings is the dream of almost everyone, both in big cities, small cities and even remote villages, plants are natural beauty that can make us comfortable and can also make our economy better, many people from other countries come to where I live, because where I live a lot of beautiful plants and can cool the eyes and the air is still very natural here.

Plants are beauty - it helps keep people and environment healthy. It also needs a small investment and a lot of energy and consistency to bring business to life.
i did try this - but then i went unwell and my plants started withering. But this a very beautiful business. One should surly try.

Me mostly focused when it comes to real estate rather than going with agricultural lands but I do have both but I'm not really that focusing on agricultural.Yes it's true that having plants and now it does getting some value then it's not a bad idea on considering this option which it could really potentially able to to make you earn even more despite of other sources you do have but of course something like this doesn't involved small amount of money or capital that's why lots can't really able to get involved with.

This is actually what my parents and also most people in my local area doing so far. They have large fields in several areas. Most of them are planted with plants/trees called albasia, teak, mahogany, and other types of wood grown for years. The bigger and taller it grows and the cambium in it, the higher the price. Not only this type of tree but also fruits can also be used as a valuable investment.
However, this may not apply to vegetables because their prices are uncertain, sometimes at harvest time the prices drop so much that many farmers end up going bankrupt.

Whatever the investment, as long as we know what to invest in and how to invest smartly and wisely, we can actually take profits from this. We can learn from many things and everywhere for investment. Like now, investing is not only in the stock, poverty, or even the real things but also in this cryptocurrency.

Plants provide many benefits, in addition to soothing the eyes, with the presence of plants can also be used as a business field, let alone producing oxygen from plants. In my country, there are currently aviaries, where the concept of forest is brought in the middle of the city, so that they can enjoy the atmosphere of the forest in the city. Various types of plants are planted so that we can feel the coolness, and surprisingly, the costs incurred are very large

Here in the Philippines, growing plants is actually a very profitable business.

A lot of people are into plants, and are obsessed with having the rare varieties in their garden to show off to other people. It is actually a good thing that people are now getting engaged into this industry, as it helps the environment have its lungs back and to provide cleaner air and greener surroundings which is pleasant to the eyes.

As someone who dabbled in gene editing and similar things, I am somewhat interested in using my knowledge to grow and culture rare variants of plants and do it as my other business. It'll be a worthwhile endeavor a few years from now, but I haven't got the time and the passion to do just that just yet.

I think it very important for everyone to keep some plant at home. Indoor of outdoor. It teaches you patience. It helps to maintain a healthy routine and it also help to make you punctual> Try it - thank me later. If you are beginners and can not keep plants because you forget to water them - try hydroponics. and see the plants growing.