753: The $2k/Month Side Hustle That Led to Buying a 70-Acre Farm with Zero Down

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Hey, Nick. Thanks for having me on. Appreciate it.

You bet. So Kyle, my understanding [laughs] is you stumbled into a mushroom growing side hustle, edible gourmet mushrooms, as the result of a specific Google search. What were you looking for?

Yes, absolutely. I was looking for something that was different, so that was part of the search parameters, but the real search that kicked off the mushrooms in particular were things to do with small amounts of space, or businesses to run with small amounts of space. And a UK mushroom growing page came up, and I was like, "Okay. This is cool. Per square meter you can yield X amount of dollars per year." And being from another niche small business, I was looking for other niche small businesses, and this was one where it was like, "Nobody's doing this in the area. I haven't even heard of these mushrooms."

Okay.

It kind of just went from there. [laughs]

What were you doing previously?

I was working actually as a carnie for two years, traveling, doing state fairs here in Pennsylvania. I say carnie, but we were a small business as well. We were doing food production out of a food truck, and it was a very niche product. They were doing stuffed pretzels, and I had seen how their particular product was drawing folks to drive three hours to get their pretzels. So when I went to start looking for a side hustle for myself, I was like, "Okay. It has to be niche, it has to be something that's not being done, and it has to draw a crowd, you know, and I have very little space to do it, so what's gonna fit within that box?"

Okay. Yeah, I li- like these different criteria. We've seen other people go