20 Ways To Make Money on Your Homestead!! 🐔🥚🐑🍅🍑🌾🚜

Homesteading can be expensive. It doesn't have to be though! There are ways we can actually use what we have to make money and (not only) offset the costs of the homestead but even make money to pay some of the bills. Here are a few of them:

1. Sell eggs
2. Fertilized hatching eggs
3. Sell chicks
4. Meat birds
5. Sell baby animals
6. Selling portions of larger meat animals
7. Selling milk or animal share programs
8. Honey
9. Extra produce (fruits, vegetables, berries, etc.)
10. Seedlings/ Plant starts
11. Selling flowers
12. Corn maze/ Pumpkin patch
13. Canned goods
14. Baked goods
15. Crafts
16. Build homestead items
17. Compost
18. Teaching classes
19. Rent out equipment/ offering services
20. Online: YT Channel, Blog, Selling Photographs, etc.

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[frugalgreengirl]

Since I recorded this (yesterday) I have already thought of 2 more: Firewood and wool from your sheep (or products made of the wool). Be sure to add your additional suggestions, friends!

[shelleynobleart]

All great ideas. Love to see how you have become more and more polished and confident as time has gone by. Gogogo!

[FarmerG]

Beware... home owner insurance companies are starting to make quick inspections once every three years. They are showing up to make sure the property isn't under illegal construction or has turned into a total dump. Do all the gardening and animal stuff you want. Keep it 3 horses or less. If they find out that you are selling eggs or tomatoes to a neighbor they are going to drop your policy or charge you an outrageous fee to stay insured. Keep it on the down-low people.

[sarahjackson]

Great ideas. We do several of these. Our most recent money maker has been raising hogs for people. We are blessed to have a dairy farmer friend who gives us his "throw away" milk to feed the hogs daily. We raise him a hog a year as a thank you. Hogs have been great at consuming any food waste.

[ARRTY]

I loved that you spared the chickens feelings, you have a very kind heart. Thanks for the laugh.

[CheapandGreenCanada]

I think if I had more animals and their babies, I wouldn't be able to sell them - I get way too attached. I would be a terrible farmer. Honey and veggies I can do though! A lot of our local farmers also sell cut flowers. Great idea for compost!

[TamBayo]

Selling extra veg/fruit/eggs/honey is fine, baked, etc. can quickly land you in a mess of regulations and insurance. Costly and recipe for headache. Check what the laws are before starting will save you a lot of wasted effort.
Sit down and look crittically at what you can grow/make/gather on your own land and what you absolutely must buy and don't want to do without. That includes stuff you think is normal for everyone to have (cars for one). Handtools and more small solutions may cost way less money to operate and don't need fuel that you need to keep on buying.
Start small with both homestead and business beside your regular job. Save enough money to buy outright, mortgage eats a lot of your needed income. I.e. don't start owning your homestead with debt. As an extra, start with enough clothing, seeds, etc. to get trough the first 3-5 years, and enough money for taxes (can't get out of that one) and needed insurance. Time is needed to start this kind of thing and you will always run short. And yes even with previous experience you will have failures in a new place.

[lkhfun]

That was soooo cute how you could not say the b- or c-words (butcher and cull) in front of your chicken. :-D

[brendasmiley]

Another great video! I feel kinda dumb as I have never thought of half of these. Thanks again for what you do.✌😊

[igneousidol]

sell thrift store, yard sale, free craigslist items, or stuff you don't use anymore on EBay

[patriciacunningham]

I have been watching these videos SO I can do some of them

[rayleneevans]

Can you make and sell cheese? And the manure you rake up might be sold to gardeners. Bingo on the bees project! How fun!

[Myfrugallife]

I sell eggs, chicks, grown chickens and roosters, also some produce sometimes. But it's hard to make a lot doing this. It's way less than minimum wage per hour. The only thing I made decent money on is selling puppies, but they are harder to sell and require a whole family's help and constant babysitting. I am trying to not do things where I make too little for too much work.

[patriciacunningham]

can you use your old green house or are the renters using it?

[tkomla]

good suggestions. thank you! and you are just so cute and sweet 😊

[ingerhaugland]

Those are some great suggestions, thank you! :)

[jeanskilling]

Feed is too expensive here to make money on eggs. $16 for 50 pounds is alot too much.

[stephlyndsey]

Anyone having more success than usual due to the coronavirus? I've found my local nurseries and farms are being wiped out!! Strangely large scale farms aren't doing good!

[TRuth.T]

I would check the zoning in your town before you raise anything/animals...

[bridgetteleineweber]

Are there no regulations for baked and canned goods? Or even selling eggs? Or does it depend on the state ??