Moving to the country means you still make money, so how do you decide what business ideas to pursue?
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Welcome to Episode 20! This week Liz and I address a caller’s question about how to research and decide the best way to make money homesteading.
Listen in as we discuss the many ways to make money farming or with modern homesteading:
First, find your PASSION
- Why exactly do you want to homestead or farm?
- What excites you and what do you want to do?
- Do you long to grow the best tomatoes and sell directly to leading chefs?
- Do you simply want to feed your family?
- Do you want to be the next Joel Salatin and have a farm of chicken tractors, eggmobiles and salad bar beef?
- Do you want to live freely in the country but still make a lot of money?
Three Revenue Categories to Profitable Homesteading
- How to Make money homesteading using your land
- Large livestock -raising cows, selling calves or animals (registered or not). After all, we bought our pigs and Dexters from somewhere 🙂
- Small livestock – chickens, rabbits, etc. (heritage/rare breeds)
- Farm Stays, events, wedding, private parties
- Boarding animals
- How to Make money homesteading with your skills
- Locally or Physical
- Teaching classes (preparedness, permaculture, edible landscapes, medicinal herbs, etc.) (we’ve taught classes on cheese, butchering, etc.)
- Organize and market classes and events on topics you can’t teach (we’ve marketed many classes we couldn’t teach)
- wilderness survival
- foraging
- butchering classes
- Start a business helping farmers
- Guided fishing or hunting service
- Woodcraft business (Patrice Lewis)
- Online or Virtual
- Monetized Blogging (Jill Winger, Lisa Steele, Daisy Luther and others)
- Monetized Podcasting (EO Fire, etc.)
- Copywriting or editing
- Authoring (Mark Goodwin and others)
- Illustrating for authors, web designers, etc.
- Become a virtual assistant
- Web or graphic design
- Voice overs
- Locally or Physical
- Make money homesteading selling products from your land
- Farmstead meats (grassfed beef, pastured poultry/pork, etc.)
- artisan meats (charcuterie)
- Raw milk
- Farmstead or artisanal cheese
- Eggs
- Become a grower (vegetables, cut flowers, pick your own, transplants, etc.)
- Artisan soap (Little Seed Farm)
- Farmstead meats (grassfed beef, pastured poultry/pork, etc.)
It was a insightful discussion and I hope you enjoy it and find that it gives you a lot to think about as you prepare for your self-sufficient life.
So grab some coffee and pull up a chair!
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Resources Relevant to This Episode
- How to Make Money Homesteading by Tim Young
- Start Prepping by Tim Young
- The Accidental Farmers by Tim Young
Production Credits
- Story written by Tim Young
Music Credits
- Theme Song – Opting Out Today – Lyrics by Tim Young
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