Interest in a small farm, US grown boutique cigar brand?
I have some acres, and I've been growing/curing/rolling my own pipe and cigar tobacco for about a decade now. I was wondering what interest there'd be in patronizing a small farm CSA model cigar and pipe tobacco venture (local sales and shipped in the US, I don't want to deal with export regs). I've been around the small brewing industry in the past, so I'm familiar with the licenses and taxes/record keeping aspect as well. We were growing vegetables and small fruit for our local farmers market, but that kinda dried up after the pandemic, so I'm just looking for other ways to use the land I have. I have a growing yard of hops and a few acres of orchards, but they're years away from being commercially viable (as in, making a living with them).
Obviously, this is would be several years out, in order to get the licenses and have commercial quantities of tobacco to work with (and mature). I was thinking 3-4 acres (small enough i could almost do it by myself and maybe 1 additional worker). We're not organically certified right now, but we have been in the past for the farmers markets, and nothing's changed (just didn't want to pay for certification if we weren't going to the markets any more).
Just doing a temperature check on the idea. We're in Ohio, if that makes a difference. Mods, feel free to let me know if this isn't cool to post here, not trying to step on toes, I just figured this would be a good place to air my pondering.