Not to say you can't make money farming, but it is hard work, and returns per hour are usually low. I heard someone say one, if work is too much fun, people will do it for free. To some extent this is true with farming on a family owned (non-industrial) scale. Farmers are also notoriously bad for underestimating their true costs.
We garden, cut firewood, and keep some animals for our own consumption. One exercise I do when evaluating a "crop" is to scale my little "profit" to myself up to the point where it would cover a meaningful amount of our expenses. Say for example, home grown eggs go for about $3-$4 a dozen. After the expenses of the chicken, shelter, feed, losses, packaging, transportation, misc fees, you might be able to clear $1 or so a dozen. So just for a nice side hustle that clears $500 a month, you would need to sell 500 dozen eggs a month! Or 6,000 dozen a year! Just think about what a stack of 125 dozen eggs a week to haul to market would look like.
I have yet to be able to justify going large scale with any of it. I enjoy it in doses, but the idea doing any of it for 10-12 hour days in the high season for less than minimum wage does not sound fun to me. That's why I invested in the stock market instead of buying more land.
Carla Emory (great book by the way) starts off her book by saying the chickens will never lay as much as they are supposed to, the cow will never give as much milk as it is supposed to, the coons will eat your corn they day before you pick it, etc and she is exactly correct. Many of our "crops" do not pan out each year, too wet, too dry, too cold, too hot, too many bugs, foxes, coyotes, hawks etc. But I keep doing it because I enjoy it. I couldn't imagine taking on risk like this with my livelyhood.
Asheville is a very large market for locally grown food, but one has to wonder when it will peak out, and when it does, who will survive. There is a lot of big money in Asheville and those folks can afford to lose a money for quite a while if they think owning a farm is cool and trendy.
Read some Joel Salatin. He made it by inheriting a lot of debt free land, stacking functions, marketing extensively, and utilizing/managing LOTS of nearly free intern help. The model does work, but it is hardwork, plenty of it, and much of it is management and marketing which is too close to corporate work for me to feel retired while doing it. I have a feeling it will be guys like him that make it when the local food movement levels out.
I may eventually sell a limited amount of farm goods once I reach FIRE as a side hustle. But I will only do it as long as it remains fun, profitable and doesn't overrun my other goals. If it doesn't meet this criteria, I'm not going to do it.
Sorry to be a bit of a downer, but just sharing some of my experience with agriculture.