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 UA-cam channel.
Wow! Y’all are so inspiring. We bought some land for cash last summer and are planning to build a modular cabin and begin homesteading. We started vlogging it 2 weeks ago and will be uploading our 3rd video this Friday. We already run a small business selling Goat Milk Soap but we are really wanting to grow our streams of income so that we can get my husband out of his 9-5 electrician job for good. We were planning on starting with just UA-cam and hoping it will make passive income from there 😅 where would you suggest we start? The Amazon influencer program sounds amazing! But we don’t have a following and are still getting our feet in the door of making/editing videos!
@@Thehomesteadingjourney congratulations on your cash land purchase! We were fortunate to pay cash (after a decade of frugal savings and hardwork) for our homestead fixer upper 7 years ago. Its a great way to start. UA-cam is hard, but I'd start there and I'd not give up. I treasure my early homestead/youtube videos seeing my girls growing up and fond memories and every now and them you'll get a youtube video that takes off and makes some nice income over and over again. Start with something you are passionate about...we started a dog kennel because we love dogs and so we really enjoy it...do something you love and you will stick with it. Can you expand your goat soap business? I like to track every income stream daily and set hyper specific goals like ..goat soap biz, goal $1000/ month...then i work backwards and say ok how much product do i need to sell to reach that goal...then you can get creative and think of more ways to market, expand. You also mentioned your husband is a 9-5 electrician has he considered going off on his own? If an employer has enough work for several electricians, while also taking a big chunk of revenue generated then there should be enough work for him to eventually go on his own and keep all the rebenue... Setting his own pay and hours and perhaps expanding? Instead of 9-5 maybe it becomes 9-noon at a higher rate with more time to focus on other homestead businesses like youtube, goat soap or otherwise. Also love your channel name, documenting the journey from start to finish has real value.. hope that helps...focus on something you will be passionate about, do an amazing job... under promise and over deliver and things will fall into place. Good luck!
@@Homesteadhow thank you for this reply! Yes! he is actually working on getting his electric license right now so he can eventually find work for himself if needed and make all the revenue. Thank you for all this advice. I love the hyper specific goals, we will start doing that with the goat soap business. One of our main goals this year is to expand our soap business even more. It has slowly grown over the past few years and I do it full time right now. We subscribed to your channel and will continue following along and being inspired by y’all! We will also continue documenting our journey through UA-cam 👍🏻 thanks again!
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.
A homestead is to provide a home and provide for you and your family. That's the traditional meaning of "homestead" - more centered around surviving and self sufficiency. Not PROFIT. I would say, for a successful homestead, set yourself up for self sufficiency first, then work on making the profit. But that's just according to the way I personally would do it.
I think one of the biggest attractions to city people is the homestead life, or being around farm animals. Especially if they have kids. I'm on 20 acres, 150 fowl, 2 cows, 4 goats, and over a dozen pigs... we're also planning on building an air bnb cabin or put a nice camper up for rent so we can start making money off that as well. But I'll never stop being passionate about the real homestead stuff. I think it's just important to make money where you can.
That's what i'm turning my homestead into, but I am a photographer... so my plan was to build it for my needs and my shoots. But what a DUH moment you just gave me... i can also rent out to other photographers. What an excellent idea my friend!
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!
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.
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.
Wishing you better health. I finally saved money for plot of land, but I'm not healthy enough to work it and not sure I want to pay in stages to have others put it all together. No guarantee I'll be able to enjoy it.
@jimwilson9371 I will pray for you as well. I've learned to enjoy the little things and appreciate adaptation. We will move in the next few years and at least get a few chickens, until then, grow bags onto of pallets make an easy to access grow space. Definitely no better time than now. Best of luck.
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.
Not a single thing here is making money from homesteading. They’re making money while homesteading. That’s fine. Not why anybody watched the video, but okay.
He demonstrates how to make money homesteading. Having the extra time off work, to spend around your home to develop business is indeed homesteading. Just because hes admitting that shearing sheep and selling eggs is a terrible business model, does not mean that his ample "at home time" on the homestead leading to excellent business models is any less homesteading thatn shearing sheep for 15 cents a day.
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.
Homesteading is a lifestyle. Then you look for something to earn money to pay the bills - because even if you're growing your own food, generating your own electricity, catching and storing your own water, and sewing your own clothes from home-grown fibres, you still have bills for a whole lot of things that are just too hard to do at home.
Yes, I second all of this! I was actually working from home as an Artist as a stay at home mom before we moved to our homestead, and it (along with our real estate investment from our primary residence) is what gave us the ability to make the move. My husband was able to leave his day job and works his own side business as a locksmith when not building stuff on the farm. I create artworks and coloring books (I use Amazon's self publishing service for my books), sell downloads of my pages, and license my artwork to companies for use on their products for a small percentage. This business nets us six figures alone. Locksmith income is next, and what we've got in "development" right now are breeding a few key specialty livestock breeds (that we are personally passionate about and will get a lot out of ourselves) and building an AirBnb for Agritourism, which we've planned since day 1 but we still have a lot of infrastructure to put in. The internet allowing people to work from home IS the way that we can get more people back to homesteading, living with nature, and growing food in an attractive package. No one needs to be "money poor" to have a homestead or farm! You can have it all.
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
Thank you for replying with this page. I saw Austin’s video and wanted to follow both of your pages but only found the one. So thank you for commenting. You guys are amazing and doing great things. God Bless. 🙏🏻
Hey, Debra here. I had an eBay store and it was kicking butt. I trolled the second hand stores and resold the merchandise. It started as a way to make a few dollars a month. Before I knew it I was shipping 15 packages a day. It became too much. It wasn't the money it was the time. It developed a life of it's own and it stopped being fun. It was a source of dread. We as a family moved from TX to CO and it was a perfect time to close it. I was doing a low of $1500 to a max of $3000. I burned out because it was just me and it just wasn't worth it. With that said, it is not an option that should be discounted. There is great money in it but proceed with caution. It can grow to the point where it isn't fun but then I wasn't looking for a job.
I hear you. I've been there too. In cases like this I always see if I can delegate or offload some of the work. It's usually not possible but sometimes it is. For example I have 4 teenagers and for our more taxxing businesses, like our dog kennel, we've basically partnered with our daughter, taught her everything and now she runs it, gets a % and is learning valuable business skills, books, marketing etc..while we have more time. We've also hired virtual assistants on uPwork for other projects. But many times this just doesn't make sense and the work becomes no longer worthwhile. We have been there. Much of our business focus has changed to be more passive for just this reason. Our Airbnb for example provides almost no ongoing work other than normal maintenance. Thx
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...
This is definitely something to consider and something we realize after years 😔 we are currently in the process of moving to a new state but we'd like to continue farming eventually after a yr or so of just relaxing a bit and not worrying about farm animals🧘♀️
This is why I won't get any large livestock. I have 7 yo twins and we homeschool. It's important I take them on adventures. My layer chickens and duck are set for a week without me. I have a neighbor that comes over and collects the eggs and keeps them. Makes sure the feeders aren't topped over and are full, and the water is working. The broilers are grown out and processed between planned trips. Everything is on irrigation and timers. I harvest my commercial crops in sync with those adventures. Balance is everything.
@@HomesteadhowWe are getting a homestead with my mother and remodeling an outbuilding into a residence for her. When we want a vacation she will tend our plants and animals. When she wants a vacation, we will tend hers. When the kids are big enough one of them can tend everything. Not doing it alone is probably the answer.
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.
Growing your own feed is the great equalizer. I'm leary of store bought anything. I'd pay triple to grow it myself, the meat and veggies are all clean from contaminates and chemicals
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.
Thank you very much for doing this interview! I went right to his page and signed up. I feel like he’s got a lot to offer everyone! P.S. I told jack over at the mindful homestead to reach out to you. He has some issues with water on his property and looks like he needs some guidance. After seeing what you and your dad did I thought you guys might be able to help
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".
Homesteading means "life as a settler on a homestead" Which really means "successfully surviving off the land" This guy demonstrates how having more time around the house and less time working has lead him to developing excellent business models. This is indeed homesteading. Just because it doesnt fit the profile of homestead in 1987, making 15 cents for shearing sheep and 2 dollars selling eggs, does not mean that he isnt modernly homesteading. The man is sharing how he has made homesteading a more powerful business than 95% of the working class. And its all because he moved off grid and had the extra at home time to make it happen. Take his monthly wages and then subtract meat/veggies/eggs/water which are his harvests, and you have a damn successful self sufficiency You can raise cows and goats and chickens and be busy 9-5 with that if your ok with that type of hourly wage, but why not get with the times ontop of it?
Some of my media is eligible to be monitized not youtube but tiktok and facebook. I started homestead content, but dont have any kind of a following for it as a niche. Im starting eith nothing but the house and an acre of land. It would be such a blessing if the revenue streams started revenuing.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been working a couple of traditional jobs while trying to get our homestead up and running, and we seem to stumble because I can't devote the time that I want to because of my jobs/time constraints with said jobs. I honestly feel like I have been selling my soul to those companies doing things that I don't even care about, only for us to not succeed at something we really do care about. I really want this dream of ours to succeed and I think doing things like @homesteadhow suggested here, will help us. I showed this video to my wife and my older children, and the older kids are already out scouring garage sales to start right now. I love the idea of linking your businesses, things you are already doing and are passionate about. Thank you again. Both Homesteady and now Homesteadhow are inspirations to us.
I know how it feels to have a soul sucking job .I did it for years.. I wish I went off on my own earlier. I am here for you if you have questions along the way, be fearless! You will get there!
Kerry sets a great example in the leap business model! He went all in full time and made it work. We went the route of slowly building side hustles to escape the rat race with. Either way works, just do one and give it your everything! Sounds like your family is ready for it!!!
@@thegreathitesyou are lightyears ahead of me. I am struggling with same issues for past 10 years. I am a single guy working full time job and working full time in the farm. I don't have a wife or kids to help with chores. Air b&b is oversaturated here and very seasonal (2-3 months out of the year). Takes hige capital to build an air b&b. I dont have time, energy, or ability to become a successful youtuber. Nobody here buys farm eggs when they can get them for .99 at walmart.
Re selling eggs- instead of raising common egg producing varieties of chickens, and selling eggs for $5 a dozen locally, raise a rare or heritage breed, and sell eggs on eBay for $50 a dozen! It cost the same money in feed to raise rare breeds, and managing an eBay hatching egg business is pretty easy.
Kerry here-- I am not joking- that would bring a tear to my eye! I am very goal oriented and hitting 100k subscribers has been written on my white board for several years now. I have worked so hard for so many years and videos and edits and I've never worked harder towards a goal. I will be so thankful!
This just tells me, homesteading is about subsistence living without debt. When. Cash is needed make it however you can, but get the homestead to provide for itself as much as possible. Cash will be for maintenance, medical care, taxes, and utilities.
Thanks for a great podcast Austin, I am excited to watch their UA-cam channel to see what all they teach about making money from the homestead. In my area there are allot of homes down around Norris lake that I could purchase and turn into air bnb. It is something I would really love to get involved in.
You don't even have to buy anything to resell things you could probably look around your house and find things to sell and also you can always find things people are throwing away all the time and if you're willing to pick them up and put them online a lot of times you can just get stuff for free to resell
For the air bnb, it's a part of being an air bnb member. You pay air bnb per visitor for advertising and permits. Your working under them. At least I think that's how it works
Hi Kerry here. We have an umbrella policy on our homestead, it's pretty reasonable and covers our airbnb and kennel. Plus airbnb has some safeguards in place in regards to potential property damage from guests
I had an Airbnb as well in the country and you have to have an umbrella policy to cover any and everything that could possibly happen ...due to sue happy people
All agrotourism endeavors require an insurance policy, sometimes this can get costly with handicapped access and facilities. But you'll never be sued for other people's negligence
HOLY #@$&! So I have to say, Airbnb has been #1 on my list for the last year, but we have to build something from scratch so the funds are not there yet. I did not think of dog kennel, and while we would have to build that too, that is a great idea and right up my ally. I am constantly mind blown by all of the ways to make money these days from the internet. They never really appeal to me though... I absolutely hate being in front of the camera, but dang!
Our airbnb is a separate unit but we had to fix it up. Many people will convert an attic or basement. Our dog kennel was fun (and less expensive) because we made it off grid. It runs on a few solar panels. We do have to transport out water but it was a fun little build, holds just 4 dogs. Good luck!
Do you need to have a homestead license to do this? And a license for all those side businesses? or an llc? can you please share on that :) thx for this awesome video. Learned alot
Our plan has always been to create an air bb homestead experience. My big concern now is all of the restrictions that have been placed on air bb. For example you can no longer do air bb on a property that you don't live in in some states. The reason for this makes sense. People come in to an area and but up inexpensive (to them) properties and then air bb the rooms. This takes housing options from the locals and increases rent in the area. People become homeless over it. So it is a good thing. I only plan to own the property that I live on and rent air bb on the property. My worry is that this will become even move strict and somehow prevent me from doing it after buying a property that I intend to pay for, with the air bb income. Is there anything I can do to be certain that I will be able to do air bb? I know some home loans won't allow it either.
I'd suggest talking to a lawyer, and maybe your local politicians. If you build something for the purpose of renting it out, and it's on your own property that you live on, then you are not harming other local people's ability to find accommodation. Make sure the politicians know you exist before they start making laws, and lobby them to make laws in such a way as to not stop people like yourself from bringing money into your region. If they ban air bb anyway, then your best option is to rent out your new building as longer term accommodation. It's not as lucrative and there's a lot of very justified bad opinions about landlords, but you can choose to be a good landlord.
Very interesting and very informative. I'm playing close attention to the new names for me (eg Facebook Marketplace, Amazon Affilliate Programme). Would it be a problem if, as suggested, the world transferrred over completely to digital money and only on-line money transfer and presentation of goods? And the Social Credit ID and Scoring? Your cup of tea? And choice? How would you decide what you are selling is worth. And the Home B&B. Especially if Travel becomes a problem. Perhaps you should go into depth on one or two side hussels.
Bothers me to resell things. This drives prices up and contributes to inflation. It sounds like such a great idea but morally I don’t think I can do it, not in these times
People are paying for your time in finding good items, inspecting to make sure they're in good order, and presenting them in an accessible manner. A good quality skill book in the bottom of a dusty box at a garage sale isn't worth much because most people don't know it's there. Take it out, clean it, identify it, and put it into an online store where people can find it easily from anywhere in the world, and suddenly it becomes valuable. Theoretically the previous owner could have done all that themselves, but they didn't - because it's work.
The great thing about the Internet is this would not have been possible even 15 years ago. Now ordinary people are making good money, showing their lives to other ordinary people instead of a bunch of rich schmucks, making money feeding us stupid crap like the kardashians. This is within anyone’s reach who has enough hustle. It’s what America is all about.
Thanks for subscribing! Lately we've been sharing our adventures reopening our small town theater which is a historic building dating back to 1859! Doing that plus homesteading!
When hearing the word homestead I usually think of the homestead act of 1862 where people would get free land from the govt as long as they would make improvements to it. I thought that to be a called a "homestead" it had to be part of the homestead act. But I looked up the word on the online etymology dictionary and it says: "Old English hamstede "home, town, village," from home (n.) + stead (q.v.). In U.S. use, "a lot of land adequate for the maintenance of a family" (1690s), defined by the Homestead Act of 1862 as 160 acres. Similar formation in Dutch heemstede, Danish hjemsted." So, according to that I can call my land a homestead as well. Anyway, according to this video if you want to make money forget about home steading and become an influencer.
I could never manage that many different businesses, lol! Plus I don't think I could handle being an Airbnb host. But I will definitely be looking into some of these! (Though I'm assuming the Amazon influencer program is only for people who already have a large following).
I would like to say that because of the pain from 911 alone it would be well to not only save for your home but also try and be kind with your pricing. It hurts some people to see the footage of goodness.
"Reselling", crafting, Amazon selling, web marketing, etc. have nothing to do with doing "homesteading." Anyone can do those things without a homestead. A title change is in order.
Yeah. We got 2 made goats. And they were awesome outside of the stuff males do when lacking the female. Ha. But they would walk around house and yard with us.
I find this whole video pretty interesting, since the guy being interviewed is pretty much doing everything you could do in the suburbs and not "Homesteading". Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the guy / couple that they're making good money, but they could cut down number of chickens and just keep a couple of the goats as pets (petting zoo) and focus on doing an ABNB rental / "try homesteading" for Yuppies.
It's actually a little sad that you need to be quite tech savvy to make money from your homestead. I enjoyed the video, but with the exception of the Air BnB, the resale stuff and MAYBE the small kennel, you need to be on the computer A LOT.
It's kinda disheartening to spend the day doing a video just to get 1 view, but we'll keep doing it. Hopefully soon, UA-cam will let our videos be seen. Enjoying the content you guys produce, trying to learn as much as I can from you.
I don’t consider being a hotel to be a “homestead” occupation. If he started building rocket ships or doing surgery or trading stocks on his homestead, I wouldn’t consider those to be “ways to make money on your homestead” …those are just businesses.
I’m going to enjoy watching this, but wanna just stop everything Kanye style, to say Air BnB is not going to last much longer with the monetary crisis happening. EuroDollar futures will show the big picture to everyone, and I’m so excited for anyone with producible land like a homestead! You may want to consider putting more metaphorical eggs into your literal chicken basket 😅 love Homesteady!! Thank y’all for everything and I’m so excited for y’all. Have you considered a straw bale yurt for your mid term temporary home? 🙂
Way to move the goal post. Airbnb isnt something that the people interested in homesteading want. After all the point is to get away from the city. Why bring it to you?
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 UA-cam channel.
Thanks for coming on the show Kerry!!! I’m honored to have been a small inspiration to such an awesome family of homesteaders!
Wow! Y’all are so inspiring. We bought some land for cash last summer and are planning to build a modular cabin and begin homesteading. We started vlogging it 2 weeks ago and will be uploading our 3rd video this Friday. We already run a small business selling Goat Milk Soap but we are really wanting to grow our streams of income so that we can get my husband out of his 9-5 electrician job for good. We were planning on starting with just UA-cam and hoping it will make passive income from there 😅 where would you suggest we start? The Amazon influencer program sounds amazing! But we don’t have a following and are still getting our feet in the door of making/editing videos!
@@Thehomesteadingjourney congratulations on your cash land purchase! We were fortunate to pay cash (after a decade of frugal savings and hardwork) for our homestead fixer upper 7 years ago. Its a great way to start. UA-cam is hard, but I'd start there and I'd not give up. I treasure my early homestead/youtube videos seeing my girls growing up and fond memories and every now and them you'll get a youtube video that takes off and makes some nice income over and over again. Start with something you are passionate about...we started a dog kennel because we love dogs and so we really enjoy it...do something you love and you will stick with it. Can you expand your goat soap business? I like to track every income stream daily and set hyper specific goals like ..goat soap biz, goal $1000/ month...then i work backwards and say ok how much product do i need to sell to reach that goal...then you can get creative and think of more ways to market, expand. You also mentioned your husband is a 9-5 electrician has he considered going off on his own? If an employer has enough work for several electricians, while also taking a big chunk of revenue generated then there should be enough work for him to eventually go on his own and keep all the rebenue... Setting his own pay and hours and perhaps expanding? Instead of 9-5 maybe it becomes 9-noon at a higher rate with more time to focus on other homestead businesses like youtube, goat soap or otherwise. Also love your channel name, documenting the journey from start to finish has real value.. hope that helps...focus on something you will be passionate about, do an amazing job... under promise and over deliver and things will fall into place. Good luck!
@@Homesteadhow thank you for this reply! Yes! he is actually working on getting his electric license right now so he can eventually find work for himself if needed and make all the revenue. Thank you for all this advice. I love the hyper specific goals, we will start doing that with the goat soap business. One of our main goals this year is to expand our soap business even more. It has slowly grown over the past few years and I do it full time right now. We subscribed to your channel and will continue following along and being inspired by y’all! We will also continue documenting our journey through UA-cam 👍🏻 thanks again!
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Thank you so much for this!
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.
A homestead is to provide a home and provide for you and your family. That's the traditional meaning of "homestead" - more centered around surviving and self sufficiency. Not PROFIT. I would say, for a successful homestead, set yourself up for self sufficiency first, then work on making the profit. But that's just according to the way I personally would do it.
@@WideAwake24 Oh I know. I was mostly just referring to the title. The video doesn't really have anything to do with homesteading.
I think one of the biggest attractions to city people is the homestead life, or being around farm animals. Especially if they have kids. I'm on 20 acres, 150 fowl, 2 cows, 4 goats, and over a dozen pigs... we're also planning on building an air bnb cabin or put a nice camper up for rent so we can start making money off that as well. But I'll never stop being passionate about the real homestead stuff. I think it's just important to make money where you can.
Sheep wool and duck eggs
Hosting a garden as a wedding or events for photos etc
one of the ways weve made money is renting our space out to local photographers. You can make 100-200 dollars a pop.
That's what i'm turning my homestead into, but I am a photographer... so my plan was to build it for my needs and my shoots. But what a DUH moment you just gave me... i can also rent out to other photographers. What an excellent idea my friend!
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!
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.
That’s so interesting. You have pigs in the area where people ride?
In the US you can get that for far less.
@HowDidIGet3700Subs some places 60K
@HowDidIGet3700Subs $80k per month means in a year they make $960,000. Yep, they could afford a nice piece of property.
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.
Wishing you better health. I finally saved money for plot of land, but I'm not healthy enough to work it and not sure I want to pay in stages to have others put it all together. No guarantee I'll be able to enjoy it.
@@nikkijack911 I will pray for you, I have IPF a fatal lung disease with 2 to 5 year average lifespan. July will be 6 years. God Bless
@jimwilson9371 I will pray for you as well. I've learned to enjoy the little things and appreciate adaptation. We will move in the next few years and at least get a few chickens, until then, grow bags onto of pallets make an easy to access grow space. Definitely no better time than now. Best of luck.
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.
Yes! And that's what we did (along with being very frugal) in the lead up to purchasing this homestead. Thank you
Yes! What a great point!
Awesome! Just bought 34 acres in Tennessee and can’t wait to get started homesteading! Even started our own UA-cam channel to document it all.
I don't know if you actually read the comments but thank you for improving my life you guys give me hope 😅
Not a single thing here is making money from homesteading. They’re making money while homesteading. That’s fine. Not why anybody watched the video, but okay.
He demonstrates how to make money homesteading. Having the extra time off work, to spend around your home to develop business is indeed homesteading. Just because hes admitting that shearing sheep and selling eggs is a terrible business model, does not mean that his ample "at home time" on the homestead leading to excellent business models is any less homesteading thatn shearing sheep for 15 cents a day.
Love videos like this. As my wife and I save up for a homestead finances are easily the most intimidating part of homesteading.
Yeah, it's a scary one. I truly feel your Homestead is NOT self sufficient if you are not earning some money from it!
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.
I have a true appreciation for honest, REAL videos like this. Thank you.
People have to realize Homesteading is not farming it is marketing. It's like the Hotel business. A service industry catering to people.
Homesteading is a lifestyle.
Then you look for something to earn money to pay the bills - because even if you're growing your own food, generating your own electricity, catching and storing your own water, and sewing your own clothes from home-grown fibres, you still have bills for a whole lot of things that are just too hard to do at home.
This video was full of information and insight into HOW we can make money on our homestead and make it want we want. Thanks!!
Yes, I second all of this! I was actually working from home as an Artist as a stay at home mom before we moved to our homestead, and it (along with our real estate investment from our primary residence) is what gave us the ability to make the move. My husband was able to leave his day job and works his own side business as a locksmith when not building stuff on the farm. I create artworks and coloring books (I use Amazon's self publishing service for my books), sell downloads of my pages, and license my artwork to companies for use on their products for a small percentage. This business nets us six figures alone. Locksmith income is next, and what we've got in "development" right now are breeding a few key specialty livestock breeds (that we are personally passionate about and will get a lot out of ourselves) and building an AirBnb for Agritourism, which we've planned since day 1 but we still have a lot of infrastructure to put in. The internet allowing people to work from home IS the way that we can get more people back to homesteading, living with nature, and growing food in an attractive package. No one needs to be "money poor" to have a homestead or farm! You can have it all.
My wife and I have been homesteading since 1998 and make a little money at it, but not enough, this is interesting. Thanks for posting this!
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
Thank you Austin for creating and sharing this video! You inspired Kerry and I to start homesteading! Honestly you did so thank you!!!
You guys are Killing it! Way to go Jen!
@@Homesteadyshow thank so much Austin!!! Learned so much from you and your family already
Thank you for replying with this page. I saw Austin’s video and wanted to follow both of your pages but only found the one. So thank you for commenting. You guys are amazing and doing great things. God Bless. 🙏🏻
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Hey, Debra here. I had an eBay store and it was kicking butt. I trolled the second hand stores and resold the merchandise. It started as a way to make a few dollars a month. Before I knew it I was shipping 15 packages a day. It became too much. It wasn't the money it was the time. It developed a life of it's own and it stopped being fun. It was a source of dread. We as a family moved from TX to CO and it was a perfect time to close it. I was doing a low of $1500 to a max of $3000. I burned out because it was just me and it just wasn't worth it. With that said, it is not an option that should be discounted. There is great money in it but proceed with caution. It can grow to the point where it isn't fun but then I wasn't looking for a job.
I hear you. I've been there too. In cases like this I always see if I can delegate or offload some of the work. It's usually not possible but sometimes it is. For example I have 4 teenagers and for our more taxxing businesses, like our dog kennel, we've basically partnered with our daughter, taught her everything and now she runs it, gets a % and is learning valuable business skills, books, marketing etc..while we have more time. We've also hired virtual assistants on uPwork for other projects. But many times this just doesn't make sense and the work becomes no longer worthwhile. We have been there. Much of our business focus has changed to be more passive for just this reason. Our Airbnb for example provides almost no ongoing work other than normal maintenance. Thx
wow 15 packages a day must be har hard work shipping that
Thx so much. First time I've looked at anything like this. We just bought 20 ac.
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...
I hear you on the no vacation that is a big con of homesteading! Darn near impossible to get away
This is definitely something to consider and something we realize after years 😔 we are currently in the process of moving to a new state but we'd like to continue farming eventually after a yr or so of just relaxing a bit and not worrying about farm animals🧘♀️
This is why I won't get any large livestock. I have 7 yo twins and we homeschool. It's important I take them on adventures. My layer chickens and duck are set for a week without me. I have a neighbor that comes over and collects the eggs and keeps them. Makes sure the feeders aren't topped over and are full, and the water is working. The broilers are grown out and processed between planned trips. Everything is on irrigation and timers. I harvest my commercial crops in sync with those adventures. Balance is everything.
@@HomesteadhowWe are getting a homestead with my mother and remodeling an outbuilding into a residence for her. When we want a vacation she will tend our plants and animals. When she wants a vacation, we will tend hers. When the kids are big enough one of them can tend everything. Not doing it alone is probably the answer.
As long as you don’t complain when rent or food prices get to high your all good
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.
Growing your own feed is the great equalizer. I'm leary of store bought anything. I'd pay triple to grow it myself, the meat and veggies are all clean from contaminates and chemicals
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.
Loved this video. Subscribed to both of you. Keep up the great content.
I'll have to add some things to my homestead binder now.
Thank you very much for doing this interview! I went right to his page and signed up. I feel like he’s got a lot to offer everyone! P.S. I told jack over at the mindful homestead to reach out to you. He has some issues with water on his property and looks like he needs some guidance. After seeing what you and your dad did I thought you guys might be able to help
Thanks so much!
Jacks a great friend of Homesteady!
Thank you! Now I have more ideas for for trying to convince the wife to homestead, she's of course leary of the financials involved
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".
Thank you I needed this!! ❤
Love this! Such great tips. Setting up a year round cash flow is so important. Great interview.
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.
Nowadays Homesteading is a very loose term.
@@cynthiag3065 no. It's not.
Homesteading means "life as a settler on a homestead" Which really means "successfully surviving off the land"
This guy demonstrates how having more time around the house and less time working has lead him to developing excellent business models. This is indeed homesteading.
Just because it doesnt fit the profile of homestead in 1987, making 15 cents for shearing sheep and 2 dollars selling eggs, does not mean that he isnt modernly homesteading.
The man is sharing how he has made homesteading a more powerful business than 95% of the working class. And its all because he moved off grid and had the extra at home time to make it happen.
Take his monthly wages and then subtract meat/veggies/eggs/water which are his harvests, and you have a damn successful self sufficiency
You can raise cows and goats and chickens and be busy 9-5 with that if your ok with that type of hourly wage, but why not get with the times ontop of it?
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This was a super interesting video! It definitely gives me some ideas for the future. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing ~ I went and subscribed~ sounds like they have a variety of things going on👍🤗❤
Thank you for the video! So many great ideas. Just bought 9 acres in Indiana and planning on implementing some of these ideas.
Thanks! Great ideas!
FFS this isn't how to make money homesteading! It's how to be an influencer with ticks. UGH
Some of my media is eligible to be monitized not youtube but tiktok and facebook. I started homestead content, but dont have any kind of a following for it as a niche. Im starting eith nothing but the house and an acre of land. It would be such a blessing if the revenue streams started revenuing.
As I am buying 22 acre spot rigjt now. This was a grest video, ty!
I started with a 2 bedroom and ended up with 28 profitable rooms!
Now were Taking the profits to buy a farm
This is what I've been looking for, for a while.
Thank you so much for this video. I have been working a couple of traditional jobs while trying to get our homestead up and running, and we seem to stumble because I can't devote the time that I want to because of my jobs/time constraints with said jobs. I honestly feel like I have been selling my soul to those companies doing things that I don't even care about, only for us to not succeed at something we really do care about. I really want this dream of ours to succeed and I think doing things like @homesteadhow suggested here, will help us.
I showed this video to my wife and my older children, and the older kids are already out scouring garage sales to start right now.
I love the idea of linking your businesses, things you are already doing and are passionate about.
Thank you again. Both Homesteady and now Homesteadhow are inspirations to us.
I know how it feels to have a soul sucking job
.I did it for years.. I wish I went off on my own earlier. I am here for you if you have questions along the way, be fearless! You will get there!
Kerry sets a great example in the leap business model! He went all in full time and made it work. We went the route of slowly building side hustles to escape the rat race with. Either way works, just do one and give it your everything! Sounds like your family is ready for it!!!
@@Homesteadyshow thank you all for the kind words and the examples to follow
@@thegreathitesyou are lightyears ahead of me. I am struggling with same issues for past 10 years. I am a single guy working full time job and working full time in the farm. I don't have a wife or kids to help with chores. Air b&b is oversaturated here and very seasonal (2-3 months out of the year). Takes hige capital to build an air b&b. I dont have time, energy, or ability to become a successful youtuber. Nobody here buys farm eggs when they can get them for .99 at walmart.
Finally an honest UA-camr.
Re selling eggs- instead of raising common egg producing varieties of chickens, and selling eggs for $5 a dozen locally, raise a rare or heritage breed, and sell eggs on eBay for $50 a dozen! It cost the same money in feed to raise rare breeds, and managing an eBay hatching egg business is pretty easy.
Amazon Influencer Programme - sounds like the business model from Avon or Tupperware.
A hundred thousand subs for HomeSteadHow by tomorrow I bet.
Kerry here-- I am not joking- that would bring a tear to my eye! I am very goal oriented and hitting 100k subscribers has been written on my white board for several years now. I have worked so hard for so many years and videos and edits and I've never worked harder towards a goal. I will be so thankful!
Let's DO IT!
You guys are a media company now lo that’s awesome! Great job
Awesome thanks.
This just tells me, homesteading is about subsistence living without debt. When. Cash is needed make it however you can, but get the homestead to provide for itself as much as possible. Cash will be for maintenance, medical care, taxes, and utilities.
Thanks for a great podcast Austin, I am excited to watch their UA-cam channel to see what all they teach about making money from the homestead. In my area there are allot of homes down around Norris lake that I could purchase and turn into air bnb. It is something I would really love to get involved in.
Oh man that would be awesome!
You don't even have to buy anything to resell things you could probably look around your house and find things to sell and also you can always find things people are throwing away all the time and if you're willing to pick them up and put them online a lot of times you can just get stuff for free to resell
Subscribed! 😊
I wonder how he keeps himself legally safe from people suing if they hurt themselves.
For the air bnb, it's a part of being an air bnb member. You pay air bnb per visitor for advertising and permits. Your working under them. At least I think that's how it works
Hi Kerry here. We have an umbrella policy on our homestead, it's pretty reasonable and covers our airbnb and kennel. Plus airbnb has some safeguards in place in regards to potential property damage from guests
@@Homesteadhow thank you! That is great to know!
I had an Airbnb as well in the country and you have to have an umbrella policy to cover any and everything that could possibly happen ...due to sue happy people
All agrotourism endeavors require an insurance policy, sometimes this can get costly with handicapped access and facilities. But you'll never be sued for other people's negligence
HOLY #@$&! So I have to say, Airbnb has been #1 on my list for the last year, but we have to build something from scratch so the funds are not there yet. I did not think of dog kennel, and while we would have to build that too, that is a great idea and right up my ally. I am constantly mind blown by all of the ways to make money these days from the internet. They never really appeal to me though... I absolutely hate being in front of the camera, but dang!
Our airbnb is a separate unit but we had to fix it up. Many people will convert an attic or basement. Our dog kennel was fun (and less expensive) because we made it off grid. It runs on a few solar panels. We do have to transport out water but it was a fun little build, holds just 4 dogs. Good luck!
Do you need to have a homestead license to do this? And a license for all those side businesses? or an llc? can you please share on that :) thx for this awesome video. Learned alot
Our plan has always been to create an air bb homestead experience. My big concern now is all of the restrictions that have been placed on air bb. For example you can no longer do air bb on a property that you don't live in in some states. The reason for this makes sense. People come in to an area and but up inexpensive (to them) properties and then air bb the rooms. This takes housing options from the locals and increases rent in the area. People become homeless over it. So it is a good thing. I only plan to own the property that I live on and rent air bb on the property. My worry is that this will become even move strict and somehow prevent me from doing it after buying a property that I intend to pay for, with the air bb income. Is there anything I can do to be certain that I will be able to do air bb? I know some home loans won't allow it either.
I'd suggest talking to a lawyer, and maybe your local politicians. If you build something for the purpose of renting it out, and it's on your own property that you live on, then you are not harming other local people's ability to find accommodation. Make sure the politicians know you exist before they start making laws, and lobby them to make laws in such a way as to not stop people like yourself from bringing money into your region.
If they ban air bb anyway, then your best option is to rent out your new building as longer term accommodation. It's not as lucrative and there's a lot of very justified bad opinions about landlords, but you can choose to be a good landlord.
Great tips!!
Very interesting and very informative. I'm playing close attention to the new names for me (eg Facebook Marketplace, Amazon Affilliate Programme). Would it be a problem if, as suggested, the world transferrred over completely to digital money and only on-line money transfer and presentation of goods? And the Social Credit ID and Scoring? Your cup of tea? And choice? How would you decide what you are selling is worth. And the Home B&B. Especially if Travel becomes a problem. Perhaps you should go into depth on one or two side hussels.
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Bothers me to resell things. This drives prices up and contributes to inflation. It sounds like such a great idea but morally I don’t think I can do it, not in these times
People are paying for your time in finding good items, inspecting to make sure they're in good order, and presenting them in an accessible manner. A good quality skill book in the bottom of a dusty box at a garage sale isn't worth much because most people don't know it's there. Take it out, clean it, identify it, and put it into an online store where people can find it easily from anywhere in the world, and suddenly it becomes valuable. Theoretically the previous owner could have done all that themselves, but they didn't - because it's work.
GREAT VLOG AUST
How to make $16,000 in a month homesteading:
Step 1: have a massively successful UA-cam channel.
Lmao.
The great thing about the Internet is this would not have been possible even 15 years ago. Now ordinary people are making good money, showing their lives to other ordinary people instead of a bunch of rich schmucks, making money feeding us stupid crap like the kardashians. This is within anyone’s reach who has enough hustle. It’s what America is all about.
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Just subbed to Homestead How.
Thanks for subscribing! Lately we've been sharing our adventures reopening our small town theater which is a historic building dating back to 1859! Doing that plus homesteading!
Great video!
Great interview guys thanks for taking the time.
What l learned from this video that homsteading doesn't make you money... everything else can be done without homstead in the middle of manhattan
When hearing the word homestead I usually think of the homestead act of 1862 where people would get free land from the govt as long as they would make improvements to it.
I thought that to be a called a "homestead" it had to be part of the homestead act. But I looked up the word on the online etymology dictionary and it says: "Old English hamstede "home, town, village," from home (n.) + stead (q.v.). In U.S. use, "a lot of land adequate for the maintenance of a family" (1690s), defined by the Homestead Act of 1862 as 160 acres. Similar formation in Dutch heemstede, Danish hjemsted." So, according to that I can call my land a homestead as well.
Anyway, according to this video if you want to make money forget about home steading and become an influencer.
Only a small percentage of youtubers actually become successful and make profit. It can take years to make an income
I could never manage that many different businesses, lol! Plus I don't think I could handle being an Airbnb host. But I will definitely be looking into some of these! (Though I'm assuming the Amazon influencer program is only for people who already have a large following).
I would like to say that because of the pain from 911 alone it would be well to not only save for your home but also try and be kind with your pricing. It hurts some people to see the footage of goodness.
Already sub you both. Great share thanks so much!
"Reselling", crafting, Amazon selling, web marketing, etc. have nothing to do with doing "homesteading." Anyone can do those things without a homestead. A title change is in order.
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Yeah. We got 2 made goats. And they were awesome outside of the stuff males do when lacking the female. Ha. But they would walk around house and yard with us.
How do they have time for all of these side hustles
Title should be "how we afford having goats" none of this is homestead business lol
who would've thought the Amazon Influencer program would be the leading business model.. crazy
rbnb? like renting the coop?
Could you make your own biobricks from firewood? Then you get the best of both worlds.
very interesting video...
I find this whole video pretty interesting, since the guy being interviewed is pretty much doing everything you could do in the suburbs and not "Homesteading". Don't get me wrong, I'm happy for the guy / couple that they're making good money, but they could cut down number of chickens and just keep a couple of the goats as pets (petting zoo) and focus on doing an ABNB rental / "try homesteading" for Yuppies.
Oh very cool You too content creator How original
Just grow tomatoes and seedless watermelons
So basically do airbnb with it haha
It's actually a little sad that you need to be quite tech savvy to make money from your homestead. I enjoyed the video, but with the exception of the Air BnB, the resale stuff and MAYBE the small kennel, you need to be on the computer A LOT.
Marketing is thousands of times easier online. Marketing local is required if you don't want to go online. Every business needs Marketing.
Nothing like an old barn filled with antiques for sale....
Amazon Influencer!🎉
Oh AirBnB! We are starting that.
It's kinda disheartening to spend the day doing a video just to get 1 view, but we'll keep doing it. Hopefully soon, UA-cam will let our videos be seen. Enjoying the content you guys produce, trying to learn as much as I can from you.
I don’t consider being a hotel to be a “homestead” occupation. If he started building rocket ships or doing surgery or trading stocks on his homestead, I wouldn’t consider those to be “ways to make money on your homestead” …those are just businesses.
This was great for someone like me to watch. 17 acres here
How do you make money homesteading with out youtube?
He isn’t wrong about the goats lol. I made the same mistake spending money on male goats 😂
I’m going to enjoy watching this, but wanna just stop everything Kanye style, to say Air BnB is not going to last much longer with the monetary crisis happening. EuroDollar futures will show the big picture to everyone, and I’m so excited for anyone with producible land like a homestead! You may want to consider putting more metaphorical eggs into your literal chicken basket 😅 love Homesteady!! Thank y’all for everything and I’m so excited for y’all. Have you considered a straw bale yurt for your mid term temporary home? 🙂
Way to move the goal post. Airbnb isnt something that the people interested in homesteading want. After all the point is to get away from the city. Why bring it to you?
disappointed to see that if they hadnt been successful full time youtubers they wouldnt have been able to afford the homestead
these are side jobs not farming