Crawfish farming in the Carolinas ...

shite is hard work. That's all I know.

Fyi, Crawfish farmers hire labors to catch, sort, and bag the crawfish. You can’t do it all yourself.

Do they farm rice in South Carolina?

Are planning on living in Charlotte and running a farm in SC? Your going to have to hire laborers and an experienced manager. I personally wouldnt want to run that operation remotely. There's too much to do on a daily/weekly basis. You're going to have to demand a premium price (which I think is easier given supply/demand) because you will have a generally short season.

Google reveals there are a couple farms in SC. So its "doable" I suppose.

so you know that area gets cold right?

this is seriously a dumbass idea.

every city person thinks they want to go grow their own food, live off the land...sounds great...until you realize how fricking hard it is, how much back breaking work it takes and how little you get in return.

what you are proposing is a good way to destroy what you have built the last 25 years.

my advice....plant a fricking garden

Crawfish swim backwards. Perhaps that’s a sign.

I live in Charlotte, near Carrowinds, and I would purchase crawfish from you as long as the price isn't as high as giraffe pussy. I am understanding where you are coming from though. I have an absolute itch to do something with my hands, but maybe start slow and get a job on a fishing boat or take a year and work on a crawfish farm first before spending all the money.

If you're looking for info of help NC State Extension has an Aquaculture resource available for Crawfish farming

NC State Extension Crawfish farmng

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Do they farm rice in South Carolina?

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Absolutely. Prior to the war of Northern Aggression it was the cash crop. There is actually a push to bring it back.

My cousin owns a framing company by day and is an oysterman at night from underwater grants given on the Lynn haven river in VB. he says it’s the hardest but most rewarding work.

And on years when his oysters hit$, they hit. He ships to Seattle, KC, Houston because some restaurants want different types of oysters.

You’ve got to deal with storms, theft, rivalries with longtime farmers that don’t accept y ou because you’ve brought new energy to the industry. If you make a dollar more than them per acre, they get pissed.

He built his own oyster cages at a fraction of what the state was selling g them and he got flack from other farmers saying they weren’t environmentally friendly. They are baws that are sensible about not being environmental whackos, yet their tune changes when they feel they are at a disadvantage.



If you do it, the money maker is “culinary, enviro tourism”.

You’d benefit from teaming up with other farmers and creating a tour of crawfish.

Much like the wine tours you can do up in Elkin/Jonesville/Mt Airy, they want to team up woth other vendors and get Charloteans and Greensboro/Winston Salem residents to book a bus and safely drink on those beautiful Brushy Mountains overlooking the Yadkin valley backdroppped by the Blue Ridge.

But my cousin found it a money maker to team up with about five other oyster growers to give people a taste of different oysters in the Tidewater Region.

White visitng one oyster farm, the owner would detail his oysters and their salinity and taste profiles. Offered boat tour and it went well. Expensive to upkeep but still good.