10 BETTER WAYS To MAKE MONEY HOMESTEADING

Today Kerry from @Homesteadhow shares HOW his family make a living full time from their homestead!

[Homesteadhow]

Kerry here. Thank you Austin your podcast is what inspired HomesteadHow! We were listening to Homesteady 8 years ago living in the city. If anyone has any questions I'd be happy to help. Also, since we recorded this in June My family and I actually started business number 11! We purchased and reopened our beloved small town, single screen movie theater. We've also been sharing this exciting chapter on our YouTube channel.

[ChrisForstner]

Kind disappointing that the most profitable businesses for homesteading seem to be not homesteading related. It's kind of like saying your most profitable business on your homestead is providing medical services as a doctor. Sure, you're on a homestead, these are ways you make money, but almost nothing you do to make money requires you to be on a homestead.

[youngsterjoey]

one of the ways weve made money is renting our space out to local photographers. You can make 100-200 dollars a pop.

[jimwilson]

There's not a better time than now. I lived on 15 acres and trucked for a living. We grew a garden but my plan was retire, grow what we ate and buy a portable sawmill. About half the 15 acres were woods. Health went south, couldn't take care of what we had and sold the place. There's no better time than the present for your dreams.

[southerngravity]

Interesting how the term homestead has evolved. 11 years ago I started a mountain bike homestead on 50 acres. I excavated bike and moto trails to serve as paddocks for pigs and chickens. That operation opened the doors to building trails elsewhere. We still do the same things at our farm but now we are grossing 80k a month from providing bike related service to our community. Always down to podcast holler if you want to hear more.

[dravonwalker]

Love the creative thinking and willingness to share. Each of these takes so much time, I’m impressed how much you can do and still manage the homestead. Thank you!

[BloosSelfReliance]

What I love about this is many of these are ways to earn extra even if you aren't on a homestead like you guys yet. It could be a great way for someone to save the money to be able to make their dream a reality.

[kenyonegbert]

Not much here about making the most of your livestock or harvest. Not homesteading content if it's stuff you can do from some apartment in the city.

[peggystephens]

Keep in mind these are his ways he earns money. There are many like Justin Rhodes who has over a million followers and views he earns money for that. Plus he teams up with Joel salin on books they have written, permaculture abundance plus website and paid subscribers to watch homesteading videos, plus his kids also has channels that they earn money with. But they started out from the beginning. In order to be full time homesteaders and stay on the farm you have to find ways to earn money. There are many who grows lots of microgreens, and have market gardens that they sell to local chefs and they make lots of money tens of thousands per month. I know a person who makes lots of canned items and she opened a shop and sells space in her building to other crafters. So even if their item sells she is earning money monthly from the space. There are many ways of earning money whether goods, knowledge or even residual income. You can read books out loud for audible even.

[nickanderson]

This is really reassuring.
In the next two weeks me and the wife are uprooting our lives to try this
But our main focus was side businesses to subsidize stuff.
Most notably a salon for the wife in a rural town that doesn't have one and an air BnB. To hear that goats and chickens add to the air BnB value is nice to hear. I'm very excited

[mr.skeptical]

It's pretty much impossible to compete with the grocery store. Best is making $ to pay for the feed and infrastructure. Then eating your livestock for free.

[nnich]

A lot of this stuff isn't "making money homesteading". It's boilerplate "how to make money" YT video stuff... but by a guy who happens to have a homestead.

[loractmay]

Love videos like this. As my wife and I save up for a homestead finances are easily the most intimidating part of homesteading.

[taylorfree]

Loved this video! All the diversification that included Homesteading. I'd like to put my hobbies into something similar. Also would help my dream to be nomadic in retirement age in 30 or so years in real estate. Hopefully once we get into the homesteading phase, we can then pass it down to one of the kids for our "retirement".

[Poppy_love]

I started out homesteading. But the hidden things got me and I quit homesteading in favor of earning money. I don't mean to stifle anyone's dream of homesteading but it sucked for me. To start with getting up and feeding animals and cleaning up after them everyday was such a pain in the Arse. Then after about three years I decided I simply had to go on vacation for a break. But try and find anyone knowledgeable and trustworthy enough to take over your maintenance chores like feeding the animals or moving the cows from one pasture to the next etc... Nope Being tied down 24/7 365 just doesn't do it for me it was nothing like I had imagined or hoped for. What I eventually did was got rid of all the animals and planted tens of thousands of Christmas trees. That of course required a significant amount of time before it was worth it. But it did pay off with almost no maintenance. After our first harvest I started growing landscape plants and fruit and ornamental trees. That was when I started to really make a profit. I was selling to a lot of landscape companies as well as homeowners. Well I sold the whole farm a couple of years ago and retired last year at 63. So very happy I will never have to do any sort of farming ever again. Now I am just traveling with my wife during her slow months (She's Still working full time) but she will retire in 3 years and we will be free to travel and enjoy our tie wherever we land and no animals to get up and feed when it is below zero blowing snow etc...

[HomesteadIncome]

Love this! Such great tips. Setting up a year round cash flow is so important. Great interview.

[rebeccamunoz]

Thanks for sharing ~ I went and subscribed~ sounds like they have a variety of things going on👍🤗❤

[KatRoyalOfficial]

I have a true appreciation for honest, REAL videos like this. Thank you.

[heatherj]

This was a super interesting video! It definitely gives me some ideas for the future. Thanks!

[kevinvanpatten]

Thank you for the video! So many great ideas. Just bought 9 acres in Indiana and planning on implementing some of these ideas.