I need advice for my retirement plan
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Hello,
I'm Mike and I'm a middle school teacher. I'm 63 and ready to retire so I can start my own seaweed business. Here's the thing, I'm 63 and the idea of farming seaweed in the ocean is not something I can do. I understand I can connect with farmers and process products to sell to health food stores or something along those lines. I need to earn 5 to 6k a month. I won't retire until I'm earning that much at home.
Can anyone help guide me through the startup of this venture? I work 12 hours a day teaching, and have a good business mind. I need guidance and knowledge to decide what species is the best to start with, how to process it, and a way to sell it to the markets. I can market it if I know what I'm selling. I've watched the videos here and want to do this.
If you were starting this from scratch with little experience, no ocean near you, and limited funds, how would move forward?
Please help me because I'm sick and tired of catching Covid-19 from the kids and need a new career.
Thank you.
Mike
@mike_atencio88
greetings from the Philippines.
Hello there
We are seaweed farmers here in our province and we are new in this field and loving it. The seaweeds we grow here are Kappaphycus Alvarezii and they are fast growing seaweeds. We can harvest them in 4 weeks time. We have buyers for seedlings, the fresh ones are farm to table products were we consume right away and we also have value added products to be made out of them aside from drying them and selling to buyers. You can reach us at facebook messenger Lilibeth Celada as my profile or send us an email: celadalilibeth01@gmail.com for more of our experiences and story.
@lilibeth_celada thank you, I appreciate your reply and meeting you. I'm inland away from the ocean. I'm not sure how to go about starting a business. Farming won't work for me. Can you tell me how you process and prepare your seaweed for sale?
Mike, go to https://www.fdacs.gov/Agriculture-Industry/Aquaculture/Shellfish-Harvesting-Area-and-Aquaculture-Lease-Map to see what sorts of aquaculture are going on around Florida. There's also a fair amount of information at: https://www.fdacs.gov/Divisions-Offices/Aquaculture# Of course it always helps to be at the supply end or the market end of this sector, but hopefully you can find a niche. Cliff
@lilibeth_celada thank you, I appreciate your reply and meeting you. I'm inland away from the ocean. I'm not sure how to go about starting a business. Farming won't work for me. Can you tell me how you process and prepare your seaweed for sale?
@mike_atencio88 Processing seaweeds for sale depends on which is in demand per season. Some buy fresh seaweeds from us for both food consumption and some for planting as their initial seedlings.
Some we dried too for storage on value added products to be used later on. Feel free to send me an email or on facebook messenger for fast chat and communication.
If the demand for dried seaweeds are high, we just dried them up in the sun and they are ready to be picked up by buyers here for transport to wherever they take it for more processing. They say our seaweeds are good source of carrageenan and agar as base for multi uses for end products like in pharma, plastics processing, rubber, toothpaste ice cream, most household products we see all around us.
@lilibeth_celada I would have find end users to sell to here in the USA. The issue then becomes shipping and importation fees. What niche would be the best to start with?
@lilibeth_celada do you have a certified Clean Water farm? For health foods, that's mandatory.
@lilibeth_celada I would have find end users to sell to here in the USA. The issue then becomes shipping and importation fees. What niche would be the best to start with?
@lilibeth_celada do you have a certified Clean Water farm? For health foods, that's mandatory.
@mike_atencio88 Time is of the essence here for all of us. For us, each seedling that has been planted could grow into most amazing sizes in an unexpected span of time. We here are just starting yet and would be very pleased to have you with us as we go along the way. Please feel free to send us an email at celadalilibeth01@gmail.com where we could send you pictures and videos of what we do here.
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@lilibeth_celada will do.
@lilibeth_celada will do.
Mike, go to https://www.fdacs.gov/Agriculture-Industry/Aquaculture/Shellfish-Harvesting-Area-and-Aquaculture-Lease-Map to see what sorts of aquaculture are going on around Florida. There's also a fair amount of information at: https://www.fdacs.gov/Divisions-Offices/Aquaculture# Of course it always helps to be at the supply end or the market end of this sector, but hopefully you can find a niche. Cliff