Joel Salatin and Farmhouse on Boone chat about homesteading

If you know anything about homesteading, you know who Joel Salatin is. Joel has been farming and teaching about farming for decades, and he brings his wealth of experience to this conversation for the new homesteader. What is the bigger picture of homesteading? How can you make money on a homestead? What should you avoid when purchasing land? If you are hoping to start a homestead or have already started your homesteading journey, this episode is full of the encouragement and practical knowledge you need!

In this episode, we cover:
- How starting a homestead in 2024 is different than previous generations
- You don’t need as much land as you think to start a homestead
- If you can only have one stream of income from your homestead, do this!
- Can you actually save money raising your own meat?
- The top small farm mistakes to avoid
- What to look for when shopping for homestead property
- How to expand your farm offerings if you want to make a living on your homestead
- An explanation for the rise in agritourism and the opportunity it presents to homesteaders
- The importance of building a strong community among farmers and homesteaders
- What is the point of homesteading anyways?

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[meve]

Joel has been contacted by Trump to be an advisor to the Secretary of Agriculture, which will be Thomas Massie! Awesome!!!

[MuliebritySmith]

I adore Joel! I finally got to meet him this year at the homesteaders conference.

[jasondyer]

Great video. I always enjoy hearing from Joe. Very wise and inspiring man.

[lindasummer]

I love you both and I am so appreciative to Joel for everything that he has done for the homesteading community. My only concern would be the perception of many of the “farm experiences” to draw customers in start to sound more like a farm theme park and so there is still a disconnect in the minds of the consumers (starting as children) between the foods grown and raised to going to the farm so your children can have fun. It’s a very thin line between having a good living off the land and only looking at the bottom line profit. I would be interested to hear how he is also educating his farm customers while they are there to emphasize the importance of healing the land so all of his hard work will be preserved far into the future. I chuckled when he talked about the farmer that farms because he doesn’t like being around people, admittedly, I would be that farmer 😂😂 so this comment does come from that perspective. Thank you both for all you do for the homesteading community and fighting for restoring our land and bringing farming back to how it really should be on the community level.

[crterwil]

This is awesome! I want to have a little homestead. So inspiring. Two of my favorite people.

[andrea]

A friend at church is 107 and will be 108 in June. Very healthy lady too.

[Kc]

Frick yes! Two awesome inspiring people having this conversation is very hopeful. ❤

[henrysmama]

How about interviewing Lea from Little house on the mountain? Maybe about spiritual wealth, treasuring time, simple living, herbs, etc.

[whobeyou]

Since we moved out to our 6 acre homestead, we have made it a practice to give a small gift to all of our neighbors out here in the country- we give them a little honey from our bees and a small gift my husband makes in his blacksmith shop - as a way to introduce ourselves and grow relationships in our area. It goes a long way toward goodwill thruout the year.

[lifesabundantjourney]

Ahhhh i was like which video did i click on ?! ♡ amazing to see joel coming on a homemaking channel!!

[Dana-mbhd]

Lisa ❤ Great episode! This man is full of so much wisdom and experience! Thank you for this!❤️

[maryegerton]

Fantastic podcast. I am on one acre and alone. I have gardens and bees and am struggling with my orchard. Hopefully next summer I will have fruit. After listening to this I want to go outside and do stuff. But yeah🇨🇦 snow is on the way. So now it’s craft season. And right now I’m knitting and watching homestead videos. Peace and love to you ☮️💟

[theheadsteadchronicles]

Way to go Lisa! I was surprised to hear things I hadn’t heard from his other interviews! I was thinking that there wouldn’t be anything we haven’t heard already from the million interviews he does. (Not that I mind, I love watching his interviews and learning from him.) but I was surprised you got info from him that I haven’t heard anyone else get before! Good job!

[nelliedoughty]

Lisa! This is gold. Your description should have included Joel’s name!

[nancybsyb]

Joel is amazing and I loved this podcast!

[trbrig]

What a dynamic duo!! Lisa, you are such an incredible interviewer!!

[chrisschey]

What a great show! I only wish I could start over & try out this life from the beginning. Thank you, Lisa.

[merrileemcdonald]

I absolutely loved this!!! So many ideas are now running through my brain

[khorner]

Love listening to Joel Salatin! Great interview!❤

[katiez]

We had a friend that had a dairy. She said production always went down if someone else milked. They had a granddad that had a dairy for years but even went down when he milked.