2020 Homesteading Budget

[@CountryViewAcres]

I didnt talk about hay production, fencing, cows, tractors, or barns. Because we are including these things in our farm business plan. It would have been way to much for one video. We may try to cover these costs in another video.

[@deborahmeijer9697]

I was hoping this would come in this vid as soon as i saw the title😅 Also a comparrison of what the costs would be if you had to shop for all the groceries. And the option of growing your own animal feed to supress the costs of buying your feed.. Also your ducks will serve as a pest controle. They will eat allot snail's for example so indirectly they will help protect your veggie garden 😁

[@CountryViewAcres]

@@deborahmeijer9697 As far as raising you own meat, if you pay for butchering it may cost more than the store, but still be a better quality product. The cost savings will be in processing your own animals. As far as vegetables you can definitely grow a lot of vegetables cheaper than buying them in the store. But have watch your spending on store bought amendments. If you save seeds, grow directly in the ground, and make you own compost you could have very little cost in growing your own vegetables. Hopefully I track what we do and be able to compare our harvest to our spending.

[@deborahmeijer9697]

Thanks for your response 😁 I'm verry courious how it will all look on paper 😅 It would make a verry intresting and informative video. Some are so positieve on their numbers, its hard to believe. Hope you post it some day 😁

[@leemontoya1159]

I have never seen a farm business plan. Would you be willing to share? Don't need number. Just info. Pm me. Thanks inadvance

[@leemontoya1159]

Forgot to add my info. [e-mail]

[@diyhomeowner3879]

Small things make big differences. It is amazing to think, that $27.40/day in frivolous spending comes out to $10,001 wasted each year. I really appreciate this video and believe I should start a written budget as well. Love the channel, keep up the good work!!!

[@denisewilson8367]

I kind of have to laugh. My income is less than your budget. But I am use to living on less than most people. I am hoping to move south from Michigan this spring to get started on my new homestead. That is my plan anyway.

[@cathiwim]

Denise Wilson good for you for starting a homestead on a small budget. Start small is the key. We have been on ours for 15 years and still dont get big harvests and we dont have goats, only horses. But we have a vineyard and make wine.

[@larrybarber]

I wish you luck

[@hartleyhomesteadmichigan6041]

Good job on the budget. Infrastructure items sure do add up quickly!

[@pammccrary7915]

Check with your County's road and bridge group. They sometimes sell the beams or even whole old bridges for little to make your bridge.

[@bethstuart7448]

Great job with the budget! We are Dave fans! We are debt free, all but our home. Have been trying to prepare budgets for our land to homestead projects. Our first goal was saving for tractor and we just hit that. Now dividing cashflow up for fencing etc. Thanks for sharing your budget.

[@horseblinderson4747]

Evan look up perennial onions, multiplying as well as "tree"/ "Egyptian" onions there's great value in them as they're propagated similar to garlic or potatoes shallots as well. You might also want to recycle some of your tree tubes if they're still in good condition, and put them to work by cutting them in half and selling yearling cherry trees.

[@sandratalbert9578]

Thanks for another interesting video. Can see the time you must spend on planning and preparing budget. 👍👍👍

[@fredduncan1610]

I always try to justify the cost with the fun and reward of doing it myself. Thanks for sharing!

[@kathyguenther5866]

Oh yea to make you giggle my dad put duck eggs under a brooding hen and they hatch and when they found the creek the mother hen was so mad..... We got alot of entertainment from them too.

[@stevemartinez6757]

Very good information. I have been kind of doing the same things. I listed out goals to achieve this year, goals for the next few weeks and a materials list. I haven't put a price to anything yet, but forward planning is definitely the way to go. We didn't follow Dave Ramsey's plan (or really any other plan for that matter) but we are pretty much debt free. My biggest problem is wanting to do too much too quickly. The other problem is trying to time things with the weather. Spreading pasture seed isn't good unless rain is expected for example. You have inspired me to plan a bit more in detail.

[@gingerreid8569]

Appreciate the video! We are retired and moved to our homestead end of 2018...so 2019 was getting fencing re-done (27 acres), we have 9 rescue horses...putting up fencing for yards for our rescue dogs ( currently we are down to 4)...the barn was half falling down...so money and time had to go into shoring up and fixing the barn, built stalls for the 9 horses and create an area for holding feed and supplies..hubby built both a covered front porch and half back porch and the cost was pretty high, even doing it ourselves...getting a green house...building and starting raised beds, got meat rabbits, meat chickens and laying hens...each had to be housed and have a feed and water set up...built a 50x30 pen with a covered shed area for two feeder pigs, we purchased a bred angus cow and were given a blind angus bottle heifer calf...we have two apple, two peach, two plum trees, a fig tree, a myer lemon tree and a dwarf banana tree ( lemon and banana have to be put in greenhouse and brought out each season)...I learned to can, make bread and freeze vegetables so yes, I had to get products for different canning uses, a pressure cooker for fast convenience, kitchenaid mixer and other items so that preserving and saving the food we raise and grow can be kept...had to get two freezers...yes, getting "set up" is very expensive...2020, we are wanting to expand our garden and continue with the animals for meat that I mentioned above...we process chickens and rabbits...but paid a lot for processing one large pig...sold one to help with the cost...can't see us being able to butcher a cow...so those expenses are there...but yes, learning to cure meat instead of paying for it as an extra is a great idea! We do have two ponds ( smaller than yours) and are having to look at cost to do some re-stocking...between coons, beavers, snapping turtles and a flooding winter/spring last year...we lost a lot of our fish...basically tho...we are "set up"...and hoping to enjoy the hard work and money spent to get here. We do have a mortgage on the land, everything else is paid for...so will check into Dave Ramsey.

[@Tomhohenadel]

Ginger Reid you have done a lot of improvements over the last two years or so. You are to be commended for all the hard work. There’s always a pay off for the expenditure of your time and money. Thanks again, have a great week

[@atozrecovery518]

Thanks for sharing. I just started reading Dave's book.

[@TN-Land-Manager]

This is why I watch this channel. Really enjoy the numbers and real life expenses someone needs to know about. Thanks.

[@jamesharless5357]

Great video, thanks for sharing!

[@kathyguenther5866]

Thank you for being so candid. I love this show. I was raised on a small hobby farm as a young girl. We milked 1 cow, raised rabbits, chickens, ducks, pigs and goats. My dad had 10 acres and although the home and barns took up 2-3 acres he was still able to get some pasture and raise hay. It is now different for me as we live in town. We do can what we purchase from the Farmers Market in the summer and order our pork and some beef from a small locker plant. I do cook so alot of the food we eat is not processed... I do what I can and take offense from those homesteaders telling if you don't do things their way your not doing it right. I don't get that from you thank you for sharing your life and not I say not putting down those who out of necessity live differently. Love the house and your sweet wife. I giggle everytime you say "she wanted..." wish my significant other would do the same. Good luck to you in 2020. You two will go far in life.

[@herberthall2066]

SWEET VIDEO! Funny thing was I was working on my farm budget when you posted it. This is only my second year so i have alot of starting costs and builds going on. My little farm has its own power and utilities so my budget includes that. My total budget this year will run me 1000.00 per months

[@unknownkansasboy]

Oh yeah Dave Ramsey is the man he knows what he's talking about.

[@annnicholls7585]

Very interesting break down of costs and very responsible to budget for your ongoing costs and infra structure improvements!

[@Roger-gs5ew]

Good video, thanks for sharing, one thing missing is the rough value to yourselves of the processed items by not having to buy outside.I.E. Chicken meat, Eggs Pork meat, produce etc, imagine it would be in excess $5000 per year.

[@marysimpson8457]

Good job on breaking down the budget and sharing both the cost of being self sufficient with the garden, orchard and animals you currently have....plus the projected plans for continued growth of your homestead's infrastructure.

[@jefferyevans7299]

Best of Luck, we will enjoy more videos from you. Thanks for sharing.

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

I myself see self sufficient differently, I'm more about leaving the land better than it was. No plastic, MSG or nitrates. only organic sprays or fertilizer, make my own compost. the list goes on lol. I'm not perfect I still stop at Mcdonalds if I'm busy in town but the difference is I have to take benadryl before I eat anything with preservatives, ( allergic or some say sensitive to it ) So I have to find more organic methods. I look at the things you have in the pantry and can feel hives popping out all over lol

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Thanks Evan, you have it pretty much worked out. Thanks for sharing with us, hope your crops all have a great year.

[@TheUserid82]

A easy way to reduce the goat/pig costs is expand the garden with treats for them spread over the grow season along with sending them in after the grow season to clean all the plant materials up as they fertilize for next year. Some pumpkins or other high energy foods that are plant and forget go a long way if you can get ones that are ready sooner or later then the rest. A full patch of sunflowers or even just extra corn to feed them the stalks. Pigs are one of the more magical animals we know of as they can turn nasty vegetables into bacon.

[@bobcalder724]

Great episode indeed !

[@deakzoltan5546]

Nice planning. I always Say plan ahead. God Bless and loving your content. Best wishes from Romania.

[@donnadunlop]

Thanks for that, the video was very informative. I'd like to ad that you save a good amount of money in year when you repair your tools and tractor also you build most stuff yourself so that is labor costs saved. You also had a vid up on the cost of the pigs etc and the amount saved per pound if you had to purchase it yourself. Having long term goals is certainly the best way to keep on track, especially a yearly goal, 5 year plan and 10 year. I am really enjoying your videos and seeing your plans fall into place, BRAVO

[@CountryViewAcres]

We kept the farm expenses out of this budget. For the bailing hay, goats, and other livestock we plan to raise and sell. We have that included in our 5 year farm plan. So we are planning g out years in advance for the farming aspect if our land.

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

An intelligent way forward. Budgets are the backbone of success.

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Country View Acres, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

[@peteswerdon2796]

GREAT JOB! Budgets are important, but you just need to follow them. GOOD LUCK, PETE

[@markb1487]

We live on a working farm,,, 160 acres,, Beef farm,, I'll shout you some numbers,, 1,the stock use around 10 big round bales a day, that's around 100 small bales,, equates price wise to around £30 per big round Bale,, so not cheap....

[@roberttombrella6764]

Debbie-Texas. Great job, we have chickens and things but are layers feed is $16 for 40lbs

[@georgedrollinger5589]

A large garden of the right vegetables can really help. Lower the feed cost for your animals and produce some delicious meet and eggs

[@ML-lg4ky]

Experience =Priceless

[@anywhy30]

Way to go guys, good planning,my family learned a lot from that program too.. We are planning our new vehicle in coming months, crunching numbers& looking,we are a pay cash too when can,second vehicle in less than a year.lots of planning too. Enjoying your content. So how's the weather in your neck of the woods, prob not much better than mt. Carmel.lol see you in next video.

[@Tyrese37]

I really like how you and your wife maintain the property .

[@janajohnson5488]

"ducks are more entertainment".... Loveit! What teamwork and planning y'all have in place! Great job / Great video!

[@MarileeNutt]

I really enjoy your videos, usually. You astounded me this evening. You provide feed for the goats, use the money from your wife selling them and they provide you and your wife with entertainment, I have heard you laugh. And they take up space on yours and your wife’s homestead. So how can you say they aren’t a part of your homestead? I am just confused. I wish you much success and look forward to each video! Have a great evening!!

[@jkdubs2]

Looks good Evan.

[@pamilyangmeridamixtv]

i love it..soon may i come to that place

[@josephbrown-ut9ty]

JudithB I am building raised beds with hoops this year, still residing my 20 yr old green house and paying half cost of a wood splitter. I have most of the equipment from 40 yrs of doing this, but want to add a grain mill, an American canner(no gasket!) and a water purifier. Also want to make better tomato cages with cement wire! LOL I look forward to watching your progress this year!!

[@davidsmith956]

I was curious if you plant trees for harvesting firewood in the future or how do you manage that on a yearly basis. Also, curious if you have plans with your hayfield after all the issues last year? Wonderful episode and very informative. Thank you. 😀

[@katherinecalderon50]

Interesting and informative. We all can look at our expenses and see where we can save and or be more cost effective in spending. Thanks

[@raybornclark8617]

i know you didnt get your bridge built as you intended and i just thought about maybe you shouldnt give up on the bridge idea. one thing that i just thought about was maybe you could build a floating bridge/dock instead of trying to put the post down in the pond to support your bridge. if your interested just let me know and i would share my ideas for construction....

[@OpunktSchmidt1301]

Very interesting video! Thanks a lot for sharing!😊👍🏻

[@dougsteffen4700]

It would be great to see budget to actual as you go along. Thanks for the video!

[@pamilyangmeridamixtv]

nice place..so cool

[@barrysullivan59]

Hiya,another gr8 vlog. I was wondering if you harvest seeds from your garden? It's a gr8 way to save $$. I bought a packet of tomato seeds about 9 yrs ago and since yr2 I've harvested my own seeds. Don't use store bought toms as they're usually hybrid and don't germinate well,plus they're normally tasteless. Also take cuttings from your fruit trees to save. Just something to consider. Baz in U/K

[@catheyrestaino5110]

Nice video. I look forward to seeing how it goes.

[@susanperkins1944]

Great ideas! Stay on budget and it sounds goog! Th for sharing!

[@margaretpervier8357]

This was very interesting. How did the budget from last year end up?😊❤️

[@evacelik6857]

Thank You for this!!Will come in handy

[@borrowedlife]

Giday mate, love your vids. Speaking of expenses, I note you telling us how you give a lot of produce away. Eggs, fruit and veg could bring in a tidy sum of you passed them on for a dollar per quantity. Still cheap to purchaser but could pay for a lot of fences and feed. Just a thought. 🇦🇺

[@cathiwim]

Les Brown yep. Make the extra produce pay for the seed!

[@loraineleuschke4186]

Very interesting, thanks and hope you meet all your goals.!

[@unchannelbyryan]

Would love an update and maybe a 2021 version!

[@canuckyank82]

You don't need a fishing bridge. Just cast from the shore or use a kayak or boat.

[@yackfzay6224]

They really need to teach economic life 101 in school. Buying a house 30 years mort mortgage, accessories: college phone, clothing, videos game's, and children. Debts!!!😲😲😲. Getting into is so fast and easy. Getting out...???... That's life. Mother hen, says!!! After 90's I'm done with you.

[@marthabartel604]

Now you and wife also work or consultation, and that helps for your reserves

[@moinuddinkhaj]

Definitely tractor is missing from the list..

[@wendellkulp95]

great job !! i learned something today..

[@pamilyangmeridamixtv]

wow im so amazed..this one..

[@LightGesture]

Would be better to talk about startup costs for us noobies. Looks great. Would like to know what you end up paying in taxes, gas, other misc. Living expenses to know how much i will need to make to keep living as we probably wont be 100% financially free if we dont grow 100% of everything we need

[@leemontoya1159]

Love your place!! I have been watching KZbin video o how people are heating their houses or greenhouses with compost. Basically they use plastic tubing and the bury it with compost. As the liquid flows thru it gets heated by the compost.check you tube.

[@pamilyangmeridamixtv]

this is very interesting..

[@pamilyangmeridamixtv]

very impormative

[@bonniewatson178]

The price of canning lids have gone up, depending on how many jars you use you might have to add another $60 just for lids. They have almost doubled in price 😡

[@josephbrown-ut9ty]

JudithB Yes, on canning lids, so slowly buying Tattler reusable lids at $10.00 for 12 but one time cost.

[@bonniewatson178]

joseph brown yes I have about 100 taken about 2 two years to build my stock, but I can over 500 jars a season LOL 😂 use 60 on peaches alone. And the way shits going that’s not enough.

[@lilongge1304]

@@bonniewatson178 would you consider doing a canning video?

[@bonniewatson178]

@@lilongge1304 I hadn’t thought about it, maybe I will

[@raymondhodge3979]

Great video as always. Not sure if you looked at the sthil ms 261 it’s their pro saw. just picked one up with 20” bar. It will replace my old ms 290 farm boss. The price was right at the $600. Not quite as powerful as the ms 391, but not far behind. It’s almost two lbs lighter than the 391 meaning less fatigue , awesome power to weight ratio. Probably better on fuel and easier to work on if need. Ms261 body and frame is magnesium, not sure if the ms391 polycarbonate. Either one would make a great new saw. Just my $.02 traded

[@CountryViewAcres]

The 391 is not magnesium. It is 4.4 horse power. I wanted one to handle a 25" bar. The MS 362 is 4.6 Horse power and $200 more. Decided to go with the 391.

[@gregdowd9213]

Seems to be a good start. When will you track the cost of maintaining the new house; tractor maintenance/upgrades; gas/diesel fuel; and, grocery shopping (limited) and sundry items? Really enjoy your videos, thank you!

[@CountryViewAcres]

I track all our expenses. I only talked about the homesteading parts. The farm stuff is a separate business and I left out normal home expenses. But I track it all.

[@Bex-rg8pj]

Excellent budget video 👍

[@nancygray3400]

Wow nice house 🏡

[@randyhobbs67]

Check out Lumnah Acres on how to save even more money on hay cost by building a new or improving your hay feeders. They have some awesome videos for the homestead also.

[@CountryViewAcres]

I have seen many of his hay feeders. He seems to build one every 6 months. I do need to build some newer hay feeders and plan to.

[@AfterTheRains]

Perhaps add in the cost of running any freezers, if you know how much it costs to run, or renew any freezers you use. Thank you for sharing your budget information. I thought you might add a meat slicer to the food processing after your bacon slicing experience - perhaps that’s on next years budget plan.

[@CountryViewAcres]

Yeah, slicer will be next year.

[@Ad_venture666]

Thanks for sharing 🥃👍🏻

[@sueashworth560]

Good information.

[@bobhenry8262]

Can you link the music that opens this video? I like to add these little songs to my mp3 player. Lol

[@davehoagland2870]

How much money have you saved by growing you own food?

[@rickster9993]

I take it you don't eat goat? I'm a member of PETA(People Eating Tasty Animals) and goat meat is good. I liken it to deer meat. They have similar eating habits you know.

[@CountryViewAcres]

These are dairy goats, not very meaty. I am not opposed to goat eating goat meat.

[@rickster9993]

@@CountryViewAcres I've eaten some pretty good cheese made from goats milk. I don't know for sure but I've heard that goats milk is better for you than cows milk. Probably makes for good butter too.

[@lylesmith1949]

@@CountryViewAcres Sounds like more research for you is in store. Lol Would be interesting if you could estimate how much your saving at the grocery store. What is the difference, excluding infrastructure ? But excellent video! Keep'em coming!

[@CountryViewAcres]

@@lylesmith1949 , I need to track the amount of food we produce. Maybe we will be able to show that at the end of the year.

[@cathiwim]

@no name. Goats milk is naturally homogenized so is easier to digest, but that same quality makes it harder to turn into butter. It wont coagulate.

[@kylanve]

Have you built the bridge?

[@StayFrosty0916]

Get the farm boss

[@MiguelCamYT]

What if you feed your goats the large round bales. Where I live I get them for just 150 and it will last my 8 goats about 2 months.

[@cathiwim]

Miguel Camarena theres a lot of waste that way. The goats climb on the bales, poop on them then nobody eats it. Thats whyhe uses square bales in a feeder. Still some waste, but not quite as bad.

[@richardwilkens4577]

Have you thought about a small greenhouse to start your plants in

[@ssg8051]

I believe he already has dedicated shelving for this purpose in his house, and has begun a number of seed starts.

[@Rakita-mp5ew]

Добрый вечер! Яне не знаю английский язык, но что ты делаешь я уважаю. Твой проект дома мне понравился! Если не против я им воспользуюсь если ты не против. С огромным уважением из России

[@moinuddinkhaj]

Я уверен что он не знает русский язык.

[@burtonwillis6454]

For tax purposes and organization you may think about listing your homestead add ons as capital expenditures

[@burtonwillis6454]

Your chicken feed should be 17-1800 pounds of feed@ 1/4 pound per day per chicken ×19, also if you would buy bulk from a mill you could save $$$$

[@CountryViewAcres]

The Hay business we are starting and any animals we plan to market and sell will tracked as business Expenses. Everything on this budget I feel isnt truly business related. But the fencing we plan to do and barn repairs would be.

[@CountryViewAcres]

For the feed I calculated 1 bag of feed a week. Hopefully it is less.

[@burtonwillis6454]

Thanks for responding, i want to see you succeed so if i could suggest weighing out your feed, or at least keeping it in your mind should feed costs become an issue......many thanks, you have a beautiful place

[@burtonwillis6454]

Additionally feed/vet/mechanical upkeep and aquisition/ and infrastructure to a working farm is all business related.......just saying

[@jackmargason2594]

You said you had too many laying chickens. Don't you sell the surplus eggs?

[@CountryViewAcres]

We give our extra eggs to our family.

[@jackmargason2594]

@@CountryViewAcres I'm sure they love that.

[@cathiwim]

Jack Margason sell them! $3 a dozen, you will have people lined up!

[@deanbarr5740]

👍👍👍✊✊✊

[@ranchodeclux7994]

Do you already have a plucker or are you sending them to be processed?

[@CountryViewAcres]

We have a plucker. And are good to go on processing chickens ourselves.

[@patriciamorlan6487]

@@CountryViewAcres Awesome. I did 5 roosters by hand the first time, won't do it again. LOL Love my plucker!

[@tucker476]

cost of fencing and fence post for pasture to add??

[@CountryViewAcres]

That is all a part of our farm business plan, as well as hay production, cows, and goats. I left everything I consider farm business out of this discussion. There would be way to much for one video.

[@mrdio4625]

Are you still planning to produce hay this year ?

[@CountryViewAcres]

Yes. Some is for us to use and we plan in selling the extra.

[@ithacacomments4811]

Why do I feel worn out just listening to his plan.

[@cathiwim]

Ithaca Comments because we have forgotten how much work it is to raise an animal for meat, and veg for the table and sale.

[@ChurchsFamilyFarmCFF]

I think you budget is off on the pigs. But that is all and not by much

[@CountryViewAcres]

Which part do you think it off? The butchering?

[@ChurchsFamilyFarmCFF]

Country View Acres your feed price is actually high are you getting it from the feed mill in your area? And I am still amazed you get a pig for 50. Our area is usually 75 unless fair season then you can see 150 to 300 a pig.

[@CountryViewAcres]

We get our feed from a local feed mill, but I think I can still get it cheaper if I shop around.

[@ChurchsFamilyFarmCFF]

Country View Acres what do you order it in amount 500 lbs they will usually sell at bulk prices.

[@CountryViewAcres]

@@ChurchsFamilyFarmCFF I bought a 1000 pound load and a 800 pound load last year. So it was supposedly bulk price.

[@shaniaa9287]

Great video Evan. Thank you ❣️