What to collect in the forest for sale. Forestry as a form of income. Orders from restaurants

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I have been picking mushrooms for thirty years and have learned to earn 100 thousand rubles per season.

Olga Lurie

professional mushroom picker

For me, walking in the woods is not only a hobby, but also a way to earn extra money. I’ll tell you where the mushroom picker can look for buyers and what difficulties may await.

As a child, I lived in the countryside every summer. There were hungry nineties, from the age of three I went with adults to the forest for berries and mushrooms. We made preparations and ate them all winter.

From the age of twelve I wanted pocket money. In the summer, the guys at the dacha and I got up at five in the morning and went fishing. Chanterelles, aspen mushrooms and white ones were well taken at the local market. Not far from our dacha there are many children's camps, rich houses were built along the shores of the lake. Summer residents bought vegetables and herbs from the garden, berries and mushrooms from locals. For this, the administration of the market provided counters for free.

On weekdays, there were five people trading, and on weekends there were already thirty people who wanted to, and it was necessary to take a place at six in the morning. My friends and I changed: one comes early and stands with berries, the rest of the company is pulled up from the forest with mushrooms by eleven o'clock. The competition between sellers was high, but they bought from us, because, apparently, they wanted to help hardworking teenagers.

In 1999, my parents went on vacation to the border zone in the Gulf of Finland and took me with them. We lived in tents for a whole month. There were a lot of mushrooms in wild places, especially chanterelles in July. I collected them, and then I sold them on the Scandinavian track to the Finns, for stamps. Foreigners bought chanterelles well. When my parents went to the city for groceries, they took my earned currency, exchanged it, and brought my fee. In a day I could get fifty marks, or I could get all a hundred.

But I didn't like trading. It was hard to stand all day in the sun or in the wind. Irritated by capricious buyers who climbed into the basket with their hands, felt each mushroom and bargained:

I didn’t like the people who tried the berries even more - they touched them, fingered them: “Something your blueberries are sour, let’s be cheaper.” It is unpleasant to sell berries that have been touched with unwashed hands. Then I had no other options, I had to endure.

I finished school, went to work, but walking in the woods remained my hobby. In August 2014, my relatives almost kicked me out of the house when I once again brought a trunk full of mushrooms. After that, I decided to start selling them again.

You need to know mushroom places: where, when and what mushrooms grow. You can’t buy such knowledge, you have to practice it yourself or get acquainted with mushroom pickers who will help.

Equipment. From the material there is equipment: shoes, clothes, something for the head. There are no uniform rules here. One mushroom picker walks in rags and leaky sneakers, and the other in a suit with a membrane for 20 thousand. And this does not affect the quantity and quality of the mushrooms found.

Navigator. In the forest, I use a Garmin GPSMAP 62s navigator that was given to me in 2015. Now this model is no longer produced, and a new one costs 20 thousand rubles. Topographic maps and depth maps are installed on my navigator, it remembers the route and points linked to the map, shows the type of forest, relief, water bodies and swamps. All this helps when walking through the forest.

The car is a big expense. In the Leningrad region, all interesting mushroom places are far from St. Petersburg, we can go 200 km one way. I have a Hyundai Solaris, gas consumption is 1500 rubles per trip. Every 10 thousand kilometers it is necessary to undergo maintenance, I can go twice in a season.

To save money, I take fellow travelers and we throw off the fare. I usually take older women who want to walk in the woods, but do not have their own car or are afraid to drive alone. I am looking for fellow travelers in the mushroom group on Vkontakte or through Blablacar. When someone asks, I first ask: how often does he go to the forest, what does he collect, is there a car or a navigator. If I feel that a person is interested in mushroom places, I don’t take it with me.

About five years ago there was a scandal in the mushroom party. An elderly uncle asked to be a fellow traveler in the forest, he was willingly taken. He knew how to amuse on the road, was very pleasant in communication. The guys who rode with him were satisfied. And then suddenly the same guys meet him in their clearing. And with a full bus of other mushroom pickers. During that season, he looked at two dozen different places and now positions himself as an expert on mushroom places in the Leningrad region.

Small expenses are containers where you collect mushrooms: buckets, baskets, boxes. I have been buying baskets for three years. A basket made of a whole rod cost 1,500 rubles, a basket made of half a rod cost 800 rubles each. I take buckets for 100 rubles.

Gasoline and maintenance

22 000 R per season

Navigator

20 000 R, but they gave me mine

Boots, two raincoats, camouflage

6000 R

Baskets, buckets, knife

5500 R

Mushrooms can be collected one or two months a year - from mid-August to the end of September, sometimes as early as early July. So the earnings are seasonal, it will not work to constantly earn on wild mushrooms. The quantity and quality of mushrooms depends on the weather: what kind of spring it was, whether the summer was hot, how much precipitation fell. Everything is different from year to year.

For example, 2014 was ideal in terms of the length of the season and the number of mushrooms. Once I collected 30 kg of mushrooms in three hours, although usually in eight hours you only find 10 kg. But 2017 was not a mushroom year: cold late spring, rainy summer. The mushrooms did not have enough heat, they went only in the fall, and even then a little. Gaining even 5 kg was good luck. It was not possible to make money on mushrooms that season.

800 R

I took from buyers per kilogram of mushrooms in 2018

Still mushrooms are wormy. It indirectly depends on the weather, but it is impossible to predict. In 2015, out of 300 whites, 10 were put into the basket. In July 2016, all white mushrooms were wormy.

Prices for mushrooms vary depending on how many have grown. To determine the price, I study the ads on Avito or Vkontakte, I’m not too lazy to ask the metro how much they sell.

For example, medium porcini mushrooms sell for 500-1500 rubles. In such a situation, if there are a lot of mushrooms in the forest, then I sell mine for a thousand, if not enough, then for one and a half.

If the weather is lucky and the mushrooms are not wormy, I can earn up to 100 thousand rubles per season. And in a bad season - I can and 10 thousand. Even gasoline does not fight back.

Mushrooms

800 R

Boletus, chanterelles

500 R

Mokhoviki

400 R

There are two types of sellers: professional resellers and individual assemblers like me.

Professional dealers are bought in remote villages and bring mushrooms to the city. They travel as far as possible to buy mushrooms to save money. Residents of remote villages sell mushrooms at least four times cheaper than in the city. For example, last year chanterelles in the Pskov region were sold at 50 rubles per kilogram, and in St. Petersburg - at 300.

50 R

cost a kilogram of chanterelles in the Pskov region in 2018. Dealers sold chanterelles with a markup of 500%

Then such sellers sort mushrooms and transport them to markets and tents. The duration of trips is two to three days, and most mushrooms live only 12 hours. Many dealers bring only chanterelles that are stored for a long time, and the rest of the mushrooms are processed, for example, into pickles or freezing.

Individual pickers sell mushrooms near the metro, in markets and on highways. There are two troubles with them: small volume and the issue of safety and hygiene. Usually pickers sell mushrooms in bunches of 5-7 pieces, because buyers take a little bit. The client walks by, sees mushrooms and buys spontaneously, according to his mood. Street vendors do not stand constantly, but only when there is prey. Let's imagine: the hostess needed three buckets for blanks, and there was no one at the metro - there was no one to buy from.

The quality of mushrooms and the place of collection from such sellers also raises questions. On the track, mushrooms lie on folding tables, cars drive by, dust settles. At the metro, goods are laid out on boxes or directly on the ground, instead of a tablecloth - a newspaper or a bag. The seller can be a surly man in an old tracksuit, a tipsy company, or a sweet old lady.

Several times I saw a man crawling out of a roadside ditch to the seller on the highway, dragging a stuffed basket behind him. He put the mushrooms on the table and disappeared into the forest again. It is unlikely that this person departed for the prescribed two kilometers from the highway. Mushrooms also grow along the roadsides, but it is dangerous to eat them. Mushrooms absorb harmful substances from the soil, so it is important to collect them at a distance of no closer than two kilometers from highways and factories.

A neat mushroom picker with clean hands and mushrooms, who sells on the highway or near the metro, is a rarity. If you dress neatly and keep an eye on the mushrooms, you will always have a buyer.

When I first started selling mushrooms, I did not have any client base, I built it from scratch. This was helped by a story about myself on the Internet and in life.

I started with Avito and Vkontakte. On Avito, I published ads with the following content: “I will collect forest mushrooms to order”, “Young mushrooms only from the forest”, “A basket of mushrooms immediately from the forest”. In Vkontakte, I started the page "Forest Shop". Before each trip, I wrote a post there: what mushrooms I go for, how much I plan to collect, what is the price.

In addition to my page, I wrote to groups for lovers of "quiet hunting" - this is the name of people who pick mushrooms and berries in the forests. I mainly published photos from trips, told what I managed to collect, what is the quality of mushrooms, is there anything unexpected.

For two years I regularly published ads on Avito and maintained a page on Vkontakte. Here's what I came up with. The post works if you say in it:

And be sure to add many, many photographs of mushrooms, without embellishment.

Mushrooms are generally divided into two large types: noble - these are tubular species, and weeds - such as russula. In the slang of mushroom pickers, they are called "shnyaga". Weed mushrooms grow everywhere during the season, they can be taken out by trucks, so they have no special value. But for noble mushrooms there is a hunt.

To attract the attention of buyers, I photograph only noble mushrooms. True, I do not collect weeds at all. But if you are collecting, be aware that they are less valued and hardly ever bought.

We need different photos: ourselves with mushrooms, mushrooms in the forest, as they lie in a basket or bucket. Such photographs show better than words that the mushroom picker can be trusted, the mushrooms are clean, collected in the forest, and not near the highway.

Everyone buys mushrooms from me: men and women, old and young. The hostesses admire every mushroom, close jars according to family recipes, boil, fry, make julienne and carpaccio.

More mushrooms take restaurants. Chefs personally evaluate the quality and process mushrooms according to their menu. A buyer from the restaurant at the Astoria Hotel called me and asked me to bring mushrooms right from the forest, but only when the chef was on site. He takes unusual products personally.

They buy mushroom pickers who cannot go to the forest themselves. My beloved client used to go to the forest on her own, but now she is sick and cannot walk for a long time. Another regular customer is a member of the board of directors of a large company. A couple of times during the season, he finds time to pick mushrooms with us. He collects one or two baskets of all sorts of things for fun, and then orders ten kilograms of mushrooms from me. He wants to freeze elite mushrooms for the winter, but he lacks the skills to collect them himself.

I myself found two regular customers in everyday life, they are representatives of restaurants. First, I searched through Yandex in which cafes and restaurants serve dishes from mushrooms, made a list and selected small establishments. I found their phone numbers on the website, called and asked the chef to answer the phone. The conversation goes something like this:

Me: Good afternoon, I sell mushrooms, from five kilograms. Can I speak to chef Alexander?

CHEF: This is Alexander, I'm listening.

Me: Hello Alexander! I collect forest mushrooms and bring them to the city. The season is coming soon. If you want, we can cooperate.

SH: Hmm, interesting.

I'm fine. What mushrooms do you usually take? What volume? What are the processing requirements?

If the mushrooms and the volume of supplies were suitable, we agreed on an order. So I called about twenty restaurants, two agreed, and now I bring them mushrooms every season.

Fresh mushrooms are stored for 12 hours, then larvae appear in them, the mushrooms become wormy and start to smell bad. During this time, you need to get from the forest to the city and sell the booty.

In order not to trade in bad mushrooms, I began to collect pre-orders on Avito and on Vkontakte. The scheme is as follows: you place an ad, leave the phone, people call and place an order. For example, 5 kg flywheels. I'm going to the forest and picking up an order.

In the forest, I collect exactly what they asked for. When they want 10 kg of mushrooms, I go to the places where these mushrooms grow. During the collection, I am not distracted by salt and boletus.

It was not always possible to collect mushrooms strictly to order. In the forest, the picture changes every day. The day before yesterday I found 10 kg in a clearing, but today it is empty. In such cases, I took what grew, and then offered mushrooms to buyers from the list. I always keep a queue of four orders in reserve so that I have a choice.

If their customers did not take these mushrooms, they wrote another ad: “There are such and such mushrooms, sort them out.”

There are hot orders when a client needs mushrooms urgently and by a specific date. Last year, a familiar uncle called and asked to bring a basket of strong mushrooms no later than September 5: his daughter comes to him from Spain, I want to surprise her.

My husband and I went to the forest at six in the morning, walked and wandered, and by ten in the morning we found only five mushrooms. It was raining, there was a nasty squelching in our boots, and we felt so miserable that we wanted to cry. After dinner, we changed three places and by the evening we had collected this unfortunate basket. Along the way, they filled the trunk with all sorts of things for other clients and earned an additional 8 thousand rubles.

Preliminary agreements help to sell mushrooms on the same day, without wasting time looking for a buyer. This is handy when driving out of the woods with a trunk full of mushrooms that are about to go bad.

Mushrooms have a short shelf life. I have to get out of the forest, drive to the city, give the order and meet the deadline of 12 hours. This complicates the logistics, because it is impossible to collect for a week and accumulate goods, you need to work in the “collected - delivered, collected - transported” mode.

Usually they do this: they pick mushrooms in the morning and give them away in the evening. My clients understand that I need to have time to arrive from the forest, so they are waiting for the order at ten in the evening. But before delivery, I usually specify until what time they are waiting and what time it is convenient to take the order.

Once I lingered in the forest: on the way I got into a downpour, and at the entrance to the city I got stuck in a traffic jam due to an accident. As a result, I got to the client at half past eleven at night. On the way, I called, so she knew about the delay. I dragged the baskets to the apartment and saw three women. It turned out that the customer called her friends to help with the processing and they were all waiting for me. My client does not go to work, and her assistants have a shift in the morning. It was embarrassing that they would go to bed late because of me, so I gave a basket of chanterelles as an apology.

There are two delivery methods: pickup from the mushroom picker's apartment and delivery to the buyer.

Instead of eating dinner, washing up and going to bed, you sit and wait for a buyer. He did not come, and at ten in the evening you think about who to urgently sell the mushrooms so that they do not deteriorate.

I personally bring all orders to the buyer. He knows that they are specially coming to him, and it is already inconvenient to leave somewhere and refuse altogether. For advertising, I offer free shipping on orders over 1500 rubles. Almost all orders are more expensive, and I still planned to carry it myself, so I don’t lose anything. And it seems to the buyer that he is given something for free, and this is nice.

There are restrictions on delivery: I don’t go to the suburbs, I don’t go to residential complexes, I don’t go up to the apartment. This wastes time: either there is no parking space, or the navigator does not know how to drive in, or it is impossible to pass in narrow lanes. Therefore, a trip to the yard becomes a quest for fifteen minutes, and I have to deliver several orders during the evening.

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I charge mushroom delivery for orders over 1500 R

People with disabilities and the very elderly go forward. But usually they ask children or neighbors to go outside for mushrooms. So I went up to the apartment three times in five years.

I have faced complaints. There were no direct scandals, because she immediately took the mushrooms and returned the money.

After one incident, I began to warn that I accept questions about quality only on the day of sale. Then one woman bought 5 kg of large whites from me. I brought them in the evening, and the same evening the mushrooms had to be sorted out. Apparently, the customer was too lazy to do this, she put the mushrooms in a bag, and in the morning she went to work. Mushrooms opened only in the evening, a day later. In a plastic bag, unsorted mushrooms were wormed. The woman called me and let's swear. Like, I found the worms yesterday, but it was too late, and I didn’t call. I pretended to believe, and brought another basket for free, so as not to stir up a scandal.

Let me tell you another story about mismatched expectations. Another woman wanted to buy the smallest mushrooms. My family and I followed them to the Olonetsky district, spent the night in the forest, collected them for eight hours and then drove to St. Petersburg for six hours.

The mushrooms were just like the picture. But the client said, and I quote: "Some specimens are not young enough." She did not demand a refund, she was just being capricious. Now he calls every summer, but I always gently refuse: I don’t want to get involved.

If during a conversation I hear some strange demands, I also refuse the order. Hats of five centimeters, snow-white lips, chocolate-burgundy shades - let them look elsewhere.

There are three dangers in the forest: getting lost, getting hurt, or meeting wild animals. I had all this.

Ten years ago, I got lost and left the forest only at four in the morning. My city friends and I went to the forest. Mid-September, monotonous rain, late morning. We had a box of cheap wine with us, half a bottle of vodka and a can of beans. Wandered through the woods, chatted about life, I swore on the phone with the former. Having finished the conversation, she looked around - and did not recognize the area. It was getting dark, and it was not clear where to go.

We called the Ministry of Emergency Situations. The employee advised us to spend the night in the forest and stomp eight kilometers in any direction, so we would get to the highway or the railway. He added that young healthy people are taken out by phone, and the elderly and children need rescuers, they are in greater danger.

I didn’t want to spend the night in the forest in the rain, so I called my uncle and aunt, who were resting nearby in the country, for help. They knew the forest well and went to look for us. Everything worked out: they found us and at four in the morning we went out onto the track. Mushrooms, by the way, did not lose and brought home.

There was also a story with the navigator. I use a GPS navigator, which shows where a river, forest, swamp is. I walk through the forest, I want to orient myself and I understand that there is no navigator. I wore it on a carbine on my belt, and it apparently came unfastened. I was lucky because I knew the area: I was able to get out of the forest myself, and then follow my tracks and find the loss.

I once sprained a ligament in my leg. Picking mushrooms, stumbled on a branch and fell. I had to crawl to the car. It’s good that I had sober comrades with me, one got behind the wheel and drove to the emergency room. I walked on crutches for a week, and then for another month with a cane.

Wild animals are the least danger. Every time I see footprints, but I saw animals twice: wild boar and elk. They are afraid of people and try not to get caught by us. It seems to me that it is safer to be noisy: crackle branches, talk loudly, sing. My friend carries a bicycle bell with her into the forest.

For thirty years of hiking in the forest, she formulated rules for herself. Here they are:

And another rule - try to be in a good mood, and be sad at home. Otherwise, you can not notice the danger just out of stupidity.

Worked on the material

Author - Olga Lurie, editor - Tonya Sergeeva, production editor - Marina Safonova, photo editor - Maxim Koposov, information designer - Zhenya Sofronov, responsible officer - Anna Lesnykh, proofreader - Alexander Salita, layout designer - Evgenia Izotova

How to earn a living in the village with the help of forestry? In reality, there are plenty of options.

In summer, you can start preparing bath brooms. A good broom for a bath is very expensive, but not everyone can make a really good broom. There are too many nuances to know: which branches to use; what kind of wood can be harvested; What is the best time to prepare? where such a tree should grow. But if you know the answers to all these questions, and make a high-quality broom, then there will be no price for it in the bath. And those who like to go to the bathhouse in the city, so to speak, will vanish from the bustle of the city, there will always be, and they will be happy to purchase a broom made with soul. You can sell such a broom wholesale or retail without any problems, and the prices for brooms should please any villager. If desired, for the season (end of June - mid-September), one person can prepare more than 5,000 brooms.

The most significant income will bring the collection of berries, mushrooms and medicinal herbs, while these industries are the most time-consuming. There is no need to talk about the benefits that wild berries carry. The abundance of vitamins that are present in them gives them the status of treasures of Russian forests. Here are the main berries: blueberries, strawberries, lingonberries and cranberries. You can collect them from June to September (depending on the type of berries), while they will bring the greatest income. Medicinal herbs are also in demand, which are also abundant in the forest: St. John's wort, chamomile, celandine, lime blossom. Not to mention the mushrooms. Mushrooms are extremely nutritious and rich in protein, so they must be included in the diet without fail, at least in summer. Those wishing to acquire all the above listed forest gifts can be found without problems.

In winter, when the crops are harvested on household plots, the main household chores are left behind, there is much more time, but the opportunities for earning are significantly reduced. The main activity during this period was the harvesting of birch brooms. A birch broom is by far the best tool for cleaning asphalt surfaces. The history of the broom begins from ancient times, and during all this time it has practically not changed its original appearance. A birch broom is the main tool in the janitor's arsenal. Here it is harvested and you can do it in the winter. At the same time, on the street in frost, only birch rods are cut, their subsequent processing and tying takes place already in a warm room. During the season (November-February), more than 10,000 brooms can be harvested.

So, the main forest industries were listed above, with the help of which you can earn money while living in the village. And you can do them 9 months a year.

What ideas are suitable for starting a business in the village from scratch? How to open your own business in the village and start earning? What can you do in the village and how much can you earn from it?

In cities, the most profitable and popular business niches have already been mastered and occupied. Even with initial capital, it is not easy to unwind to the level of payback - competitors strive to cut you at every turn.

That is why more and more start-up entrepreneurs are turning their eyes to the countryside - there is space, there is no end, there is where to turn around and gain decent speed.

With you is Denis Kuderin, an expert of the HeatherBober magazine on financial issues. I will tell you what a rural business is like in modern Russia, which agricultural sectors are the most profitable for investment, and how to competently conduct a business in a rural area so as not to burn out.

There is a persistent misconception that it is more difficult to do business in the countryside than in the city. In reality, a much larger number of greenfield projects pay off in rural areas. At the same time, the costs of organizing and running a business are an order of magnitude lower, if only because land, labor and resources are cheaper here.

This includes businesses that use local raw materials. There are many options - a sawmill, a woodworking plant, the production of animal feed, flour, canned vegetables and meat, jams, sausages, dumplings and other semi-finished products, bath brooms.

The scale and production capacity depend on the initial investment. It is not necessary to start with a large production. Some items can even be made at home..

Herbal healing, soothing and invigorating teas are still in vogue.

In a shopping center near my house there is a whole shop that sells only herbs and berries for brewing. According to my observations, the outlet has a stable audience of buyers and good income.

Raw materials for the store are most certainly not collected in the city park - they are supplied by the villagers, who are engaged in the collection on a professional basis.

The idea, though non-standard, but quite cost-effective. With proper organization, it will bring a decent profit with minimal cash costs.

What is needed? Only your time to collect herbs, berries, flowers, calibrate them, dry them with a special dryer (the last moment is crucial).

Another branch of this direction is the collection of medicinal herbs. According to one pharmaceutical portal, the annual requirement of plants and factories for the production of herbal preparations is 50,000 tons of raw materials. And it is possible to prepare almost three times less.

Promising niche. Personally, I would choose this particular direction, since it has every chance of becoming a fashion trend in the near future.

The cities are full of people who are tired of the hustle and bustle, stress and unfavorable environmental conditions. They strive at least for a while to escape into the bosom of nature, to relax and be nourished by healing energy.

Not everyone has a dacha, and it does not always solve the problem. A summer cottage in the suburbs is not at all the same as a house in a village near a picturesque river.

If things go well, build a full-fledged hotel in the Russian style, but with European standards of comfort, using income.

If there are clean reservoirs in the village, use them for breeding commercial fish. Just don't forget negotiate with the local or district administration. Or organize an artificial reservoir on your site. Fry of carp, crucian carp, catfish, even trout are on sale. In addition to fry, you need to buy special feed and vitamins.

Once you organize your pond, you will only have to maintain it, and this is very convenient.

An alternative option is breeding crayfish. The advantage is that the demand for this delicacy exceeds the supply, and the catch in the natural environment is limited.

If agricultural activity is not your forte, but you really want to live in the village, it is not necessary to mess around in the beds or raise chickens. That is, you will do this in your free time, and in the main - earn money via the Internet.

The network is now available in any village, which means it is available to everyone. If you are a designer, copywriter, translator, programmer, professional Forex player, owner of an online store, software specialist, work remotely and get money on your card.

Comparison table of specific business ideas:

Now let's move on to practice.

Each option for a village business has its own nuances, but the general launch scheme for all is the same - follow it to avoid mistakes and disappointments.

Start with a local market analysis. Pay attention to niches in which there is no competition or it is low. Let's say if you want to open a grocery store, but it already exists in the village, analyze its assortment and customer traffic. And open a store at the other end of the village with goods of a different profile.

Find out what the local residents or the nearest district centers need. For example, if there is a constant shortage of vermicompost in the district, start producing it.

Having chosen an idea, engage in its deep study. Each niche has its own nuances. Beekeepers, for example, probably have their own communities or associations that you will need to join. And for the extraction of furs or fishing, permission from the state is required.

Business in the village does not pay off in a day. This " long» an investment of money, effort and time. A professional business plan will get rid of uncertainty and help to realize the idea in the most competent way.

Sample plans for each of the above ideas are freely available on the Internet.

Responsible moment of the process. Internet technologies will help you find any product at a bargain price. Avito and specialized sites offer working used equipment, tools, raw materials at an affordable cost and other products necessary to start a business.

Choose the most optimal purchase option in terms of delivery and cost.

Start a business only if you have already thought through the channels for the sale of finished products. Do not forget that a competent advertising campaign has never harmed anyone. Everyone should know about your product.

Look for customers wherever they live, enter into long-term contracts, offer preferential terms and deliveries at a discount. Having created a database and earned a reputation, you can optimize your pricing policy.

Simple but useful expert advice will help you organize your business more competently.

Read and remember!

Increase volumes gradually, investing in the business received income. In this case, the losses in case of failure will be minimal. If things go well, you will understand this in 6-12 months. Then you should think about further investments.

Bank loans are not a very profitable option for a seasonal business with a long payback period. Better use government subsidies and support programs Agriculture.

Full cycle enterprises always have higher profits than limited profile companies.

For example, if you have a pig farm, then it is worth mastering all stages of the production process, from growing animal feed to making meat products or even selling them directly. This option reduces the cost of intermediaries and increases profits.

Obvious advice, but necessary. Business in the village is a daily work from sunrise to sunset. At least in the early stages, it will not be easy to get used to this - stock up on endurance and patience in advance.

The business idea of ​​collecting and earning money on mushrooms and berries is suitable for any healthy person who has the desire and ability to get out into the forest. This income is seasonal, the main time in the middle zone of our country for picking berries is summer, for mushrooms - autumn. For many free from work people, this time is enough to provide themselves with a small annual income. During the season, you can earn an average of 50,000 rubles.

To earn money picking berries and mushrooms, you just need to know good forests where these gifts of nature grow. Diligence and diligence will also be a necessary personal quality, because picking berries is a rather monotonous occupation, and the search for mushrooms requires moving long distances. But all efforts are compensated by the fact that you gain freedom and unity with nature.

What mushrooms are most often found in markets in central Russia?
White mushrooms - price 200 rubles. - a bunch (in a bunch about 5 mushrooms)
Borovik (Boletus) - price 170 rubles.
Boletus - price 150 rubles.
Chanterelles - price 50 rubles.
Morels (earliest mushrooms)
Honey mushrooms - the price is 500 rubles. for a bucket of 10 liters.
Milk mushrooms, volnushki (corned beef)

What berries are most often sold in the markets?
Cranberries - 150 rubles. liter - a bucket of 10 liters 1200 rubles. minimum.
Wild raspberries - a jar of fresh raspberries with sugar 0.5 liters - 200 rubles. Dried raspberries 100 rubles - 1 kg.
Blueberries - 150 rubles. liter
Red Ribes
Cowberry

Many berries, in addition to their taste properties, also have healing effects, and since the collection of berries and mushrooms is closely related to collection of medicinal herbs and plants , then I advise you to get to know this occupation better and you can increase your profits from the gifts of nature.

In this idea, I wanted to dwell on earnings for ordinary people, perhaps retirees or students. On other resources, this income is considered as an independent business, in which sales are more often focused on European countries, where mushrooms and berries are sold for euros. In such a business, you need volume, uninterrupted supplies, heaps of documentary permits. As a result, the involvement of labor, production facilities and the purchase of equipment for washing, sorting and packaging. Initial investment is about 1,500,000 rubles. This approach may be relevant for residents of neighboring countries from the European Union.

If we consider earnings from picking berries and mushrooms as an additional income.

In this case, I remembered the story of my friend. This person works at a job with a two-by-two schedule. During the mushroom picking season, he constantly heads to the forests, to his secret places. In that year, when the mushroom season was in full swing, he constantly went to the forest with two baskets in order to collect and sell mushrooms. According to his story, for two baskets of porcini mushrooms, which he sold at shopping centers, he earned 4,500 rubles. For two days off, he earned 9,000 rubles each. But I must say that my acquaintance is quite young and energetic person and knows how to find a common language with buyers.

Starting your small business picking berries and mushrooms over time, feeling income, you may want to find additional sources of income, in this case I advise you to read growing oyster mushrooms at home . Also, if you are interested in income through subsistence farming, you can read the business idea - drying fruits and vegetables .

A business based on the gifts of nature is not only about picking berries and mushrooms. Learn traditional medicine and find out what herbs and plants are applicable in various fields of health and beauty. For example, dried raspberry leaves cost 50 rubles. for 1kg. and successfully used in medicine. Happy harvest!

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Since today one cannot rely on the support of the state, one has to rely first of all on oneself, on one's family or on like-minded people. The time has come when I need to think about space heating, and I remembered an idea that, in my opinion, is easily feasible. My idea is to buy a plot of land and plant it with trees of different species, which are used in construction, furniture making and other wood production. Planting can be done with seeds that can be collected in any forest area.

1) purchase of a piece of land. In Moldova, a hectare of land can be purchased for about 300 dollars. Well, plus about $20 land use tax. (In Ukraine, I heard that you can get 2 hectares of land for free).

2) a trip to the forest for seeds and the subsequent planting of seeds or nuts in the ground. (Of course, for a faster return, you can buy ready-made seedlings from forestry enterprises, but this requires additional costs. And since the majority of the population does not have that kind of money, planting seeds is a less expensive and more preferable action).

Since the purpose of such planting is to obtain wood, seeds or nuts are sown according to the scheme of one tree per square meter. So the trees grow tall and straight. Take oak for example. This tree reaches a height of 30-40 meters in good conditions, and sometimes 55 meters and a diameter of 1-1.5 meters.

In 10 years, in good conditions, oaks can grow to a height of 4 meters. I took the minimum, taking the width of the oak even as 30 cm, and received at least 1 cubic meter of firewood from one tree.

If we take into account that 1000 oak trees grow per hectare, then this is 1000 cubic meters of firewood in 10 years. Now a cubic meter of firewood costs about $57. A thousand cubic meters is 57,000 dollars.

And if the tree gives more wood, then this is more profit. My calculation was that the trees would be used for firewood, but if you make a board out of these trees, then the board will cost much more. I believe that the income will far exceed the expenses.

In principle, any Russian citizen can do this, because the right to rest, according to the current legislation, is the same for everyone. In accordance with Art. 34 of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, forest fund plots are leased on the basis of a decision of state authorities of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, adopted on the proposal of territorial authorities, or based on the results of forest competitions.

According to Semen Levin, lawyer of the out-of-town real estate department of MIEL-Nedvizhimost, “it is much better to rent forest fund plots for a long period - up to 49 years. This right is also spelled out in the RF LC. According to Art. 31 of the Tax Code of the Russian Federation, under a lease agreement for a forest fund plot, the forestry enterprise of the federal forest management body (lessor) undertakes to provide the forest user (tenant) with a forest fund plot for a fee for a period of one to 49 years. After signing the lease agreement, the site becomes your property for the period specified in the agreement.

Note that, in accordance with the amendments made to Art. 35 of the Forest Code of the Russian Federation, forest fund plots can now be leased both based on the results of forest competitions, and without special competitions.

In the first case, a commission is created, which includes a chairman - a representative of a state authority of a constituent entity of the Russian Federation, his deputy - a representative of a territorial body of the federal forestry administration, as well as representatives of other interested organizations. According to the results of the competition, the winner and the organizer sign a protocol, on the basis of which a lease agreement for a forest fund plot is concluded.

Provision of forest plots without holding a special tender is possible in exceptional cases, indicated in Art. 34 (3) RF LC. To do this, an individual sends a written application to the territorial leshoz indicating his passport data. Organizations need to provide details, including the address and account number. The application must indicate the location of the forest fund site, as well as the types and purposes of its use.

The following is the chain. The landlord considers your application within a month and then, with its conclusion, transfers it to the territorial body of the federal forestry management in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation. There, within a month, the application is considered and the submission prepared on it is submitted to the state authority of the constituent entity of the Russian Federation, which makes a positive or negative decision on the lease of a forest plot. After the expiration of the lease period, the plots do not become the property of the tenant, since the ban on their acquisition remains in force.

Speaking about how lawful it is to build a house on a forest plot, the lawyer of the suburban real estate department of the MIEL-Nedvizhimost company, Semyon Levin, explained that in matters of building leased forest plots, the administration of the Moscow Region is guided by the still valid resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR of December 12, 1984 No. 505 "On the procedure for issuing permits for the placement in forests and on lands of the state forest fund that are not covered with forests, tourist camps, recreation centers and other similar facilities with the construction of non-capital type buildings and on the procedure for using forests for cultural and recreational purposes." According to this document, the forests of green areas around cities and towns and all other forests can actually be used only for cultural and recreational purposes. However, theoretically, it does not prohibit the construction of a residential building on the leased territory, which can be used for personal purposes. But what happens to him after the 49-year lease expires? If the authorities are satisfied with the way you treated the forest land entrusted to you, the lease will be extended. In this case, the tenant will have a pre-emptive right to conclude a lease agreement for a new term. Lawyers note that in recent years, federal and regional legislation has been expanding the rights of owners and the authorities are meeting them halfway when resolving contentious issues.