Season 1: Episode 20: How to Make Money Homesteading | Homesteading [PODCAST]

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 using your land

Large livestock -raising cows, selling calves or animals (registered or not). 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 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

Make money 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)

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!

Show notes at theselfsufficientlife.com/ssl20