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

[@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!

[@CheapandGreenCanada]

Frugalgreengirl Alpaca wool products seem to be crazy popular.

[@holisticleedriven8532]

Spinning classes

[@shelleynobleart]

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

[@ARRTY97]

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

[@sarahjackson2749]

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.

[@boosadie9]

Big thumbs up! Another great video.

[@brittney4513]

I love the flower idea!

[@brendasmiley6128]

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

[@frugalgreengirl]

Oh Brenda, don't feel dumb! The point isn't to make anyone feel bad, its to equip people with knowledge and inspire everyone in new ways 😃

[@lkhfun6575]

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

[@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.

[@homesteadingprofessor4291]

Baked goods are covered by cottage laws

[@TheSchoolhouseLife]

great video of yours! keep it up

[@ingerhaugland6763]

Those are some great suggestions, thank you! :)

[@patriciacunningham5472]

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

[@jald3640]

This was very helpful. Thank you

[@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.

[@madameblueberry2608]

Thanks for the info! This is very good to know.

[@homesteadingprofessor4291]

Our farm is agricultural of course we farm

[@littlewillowhomestead113]

Mine knows I sell chicken eggs and chicks I told my broker.. I’m not sure why an insurance company would drop you

[@patriciacunningham5472]

BTW love the videos. GREAT job

[@ArizonaHotHomestead]

your the best. great info

[@tkomla]

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

[@rayleneevans4166]

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

[@frugalgreengirl]

Raylene Evans Great suggestions!

[@masonk.wilson538]

Depends on state

[@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.

[@kurtcooper3699]

In myl life I've unfortunately seen to many folks & lately the Amish looking for ways to make money instead of farming because of legal obstruction. The animal which is a man's best friend & not a wild product producing stock has become a source exploited & bred like a machine to produce new life every 6 months rather it's healthy for them or not because it's seen as a source of income. Ive been very involved in canine rescue & it's not a fine line between using a pet to breed constantly for income when it's not always the best situation for the animal welfare. I hope u can balance the best of both worlds keeping the health & welfare of a domesticated pet over the need to make money @ home. Seeing first hand the abuse of dogs bred until they had no other purpose in life & crambed up in cages like livestock because of there potential value & then when do to no fault of there own stop producing only to be killed so as not to be a cost to feed & water anymore. Puppy mills in Arkansas, Missouri, & Kansas ship there puppies via wholesale transporters to Florida which wind up in Malls & sold for several hundred dollars with the promotion that there somehow a better bred animal is just wrong. Watching whole litters thrown in a garbage bag & into a pond & drowned because the pups came out with deformities such as an over bite or improper colored coats which wood destroy the breeders good name if anyone found out is wrong. I hope we can remember that we domesticated the dog to be a companion & protector of us & family & not a money making machine. And I hope u find an alternative. So, let me offer an idea......wood pallets are often free on Craigslist just have to pick them up or some will be glad to deliver to u. U can make chicken pens, dog houses, bird houses, jewelry boxes, picnic tbls, & many more items for cheap & sell. Hope I offered u an option & not just raining on your parade. be blessed.

[@lajohnson1967]

Kurt Cooper -You’re projecting!! You immediately leaped to the conclusion that she’s running a puppy mill because she said she sold puppies, which is ignorant. Puppy mills are not as big a problem as you nuts make out as there are thousands of people who raise dogs responsibly.

[@lajohnson1967]

My frugal life-I have 50 laying hens and several roosters and find it difficult to sell the roosters! People want them for free...it’s hard to do anything anymore.

[@igneousidol]

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

[@holisticleedriven8532]

Can also use free items around homestead to cut prices.

[@patriciacunningham5472]

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

[@Patriot11111]

Delightful

[@TRuth.T]

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

[@stephlyndsey3932]

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!

[@bridgetteleineweber]

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

[@lajohnson1967]

bridgette mace-It depends on the state! Look online for your states regulations regarding agriculture sales.

[@masonk.wilson538]

My state, Kentucky recently passed a new bill saying we can sell homemaker goods.

[@OlafGodredsson]

Selling compost worms

[@AnnaGondzik]

You are so cool :)

[@jeanskilling5014]

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

[@lajohnson1967]

Jean Skilling I know! You need to sell the eggs for at least $5.00 a dozen to make money to adequately cover the costs.