Herb Farming

Herb Farming Success Stories [2024]

Pat Walls

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Updated: July 23rd, 2024

Herbs have been used as medicine for thousands of years. Herb farming is a business that specializes in growing and selling herbs, including the use of herb plants in cooking, medicine, and cosmetics.

Herb farming is easy and fun. You can grow amazing varieties of herbs like basil, thyme, coriander, oregano, mint, tarragon, and many more!

This type of farming offers a great return on investment (ROI). The herbs you grow are not only for consumption but can also be sold to other businesses that need the herbs for their products. Medicinal herbs can be sold wholesale or direct to consumers online.

As a herb farmer, it is possible to earn over $30,000 per acre of land each year by choosing high-priced and popular herbs.

In this list, you'll find real-world Herb Farming success stories and very profitable examples of starting a Herb Farming that makes money.

1. Small Axe Peppers Hot Sauce ($1.02M/year)

Small Axe Peppers was founded by John Crotty, who saw the potential in an empty lot in the Bronx and decided to turn it into a community garden. Realizing that peppers were the ideal crop for the small space, he came up with the idea to make hot sauce as a way to support the garden and create a commercially scalable product. With the help of Executive Chef King Phojanakong, they developed the Small Axe Peppers line of sauces. Since then, the company has grown exponentially, partnering with over 200 community gardens and distributing their sauces nationwide.

How much money it makes: $1.02M/year
How much did it cost to start: $50K
How many people on the team: 3

How We Started An $85K/Month Hot Sauce Brand

Small Axe Peppers is a thriving hot sauce manufacturing business that partners with over 200 community gardens in the United States, growing locally sourced produce and producing an impressive 70,000 bottles of hot sauce per year; the success is the result of a genuine mission, a great story, an online business, and active social media channels.

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