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Farm Freedom Farm Freedom
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Farm Freedom is an opportunity to learn from REAL homesteaders about what it really takes to live the good life on a farm or homestead. More specifically, it's a hearty helping of interviews with them to talk about ways real people are making money on a homestead. Between "homemade" money and "homesaved" money, you'll hear about ways to take your homesteading to a new level. You'll learn about self-sufficiency, sustainable living, maintaining a positive mindset in the face of struggles, gardening, raising livestock, herbal products and remedies, community and networking, and also a little bit about getting a homestead started and becoming a "farmpreneur" (ie a farm entrepreneur) for yourself. Brought to you by the people behind FindingGoodLiving.com, where we believe the best way to find "good living" in your every day is to live a simpler, slower, more meaningful life.
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8. Home-Harvested & Handmade Cutting Boards and Wood Signs with Home To Roost Co
Handmade goods are definitely a premium product that many shoppers love to buy. But what can you do to make YOUR handmade goods EXTRA special and unique, to help drive sales? How about being able to tell your customers that you're sending a piece of your farm to them? At Home To Roost Co, that's exactly what they do, selling handmade cutting boards made with timber right off their farm. It's definitely not the easiest way to make money off your farm, but it certainly is one of the most unique! You can read the companion article and learn more about how to make cutting boards and grow it to a business on our website -- visit findinggoodliving.com/podcast, and click on "cutting boards."
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7. From Horse Boarding to Horse...power? ...Sort Of | Allison Sue of CompassMyLife.com
When Allison and her husband bought their hobby farm, they also absorbed a few passive income streams that already existed on the farm. Horse boarding was one of them, but it didn't take long for them to realize that this wasn't the right revenue stream for them. They made the shift to barn storage rentals as their main passive income stream as they transition to making their bigger farm dreams start to take shape. Learn more about why they stopped with horse boarding and HOW they're shifting to make their vision for their farm come to life.
Read the companion blog post covering how to rent a barn for storage on our website. Visit the podcast page link and click on "Rentals" under the Homemade Money episodes category.
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6. Commercial Urban Farming | Raising Bougie Microgreens & A Family On 1/4 Acre with Tlush Family Farm
Katie & Jon from Tlush Family Farm joined us today to share some of the ins and outs of running a microgreens and gourmet mushroom business and doing it WITHOUT compromising family life -- super important with two little ones at home. Oh, did we mention that their entire farm is on a quarter acre? They may be one of the smallest farms we will ever interview, but they honestly bring some of the biggest tips about the not just tiniest crop but about business and life in general.
Want to read more about how to grow microgreens? Visit the podcast page on our site -- findinggoodliving.com/podcast and click on the Microgreens tile.
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5. Surviving vs Thriving -- Are You ACTUALLY Living The Life You Want, Or Just Getting By?
Stop and consider this: you're a homesteader. You're self-sufficient. But ARE you? Who pays the feed bill for your farm animals...your day job? What would happen if you lost your job tomorrow? Come along on this thought train with us to discuss the idea of living a life of surviving versus using your homestead-turned-farm to build a TRULY self-sufficient life.
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4. Looking At Land With Fresh Eyes - Property Features To Consider Before Farmsteading
We had a pretty solid idea and an on-paper plan for what we wanted to do with our land well before we even finished buying it. But even still -- the mindset shift from homesteading to farmsteading (ie making money from your homestead) really requires you to re-evaluate some components and features of your land to decide IF you can make money from it and HOW you'll do that. A property that's ideal for homesteading may not be as conducive to "business use" as you'd initially think.
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3. Is Homesteading Right For You? Balancing Isolation, Convenience, & Community
It's fairly easy to look at things critically and determine if homesteading is a good fit for your family -- look at things like income and available cash, desire to do the work, and whether it's compatible with the life you want to live (ie working for food vs world travelers, for example), etc. But what about the gray areas, the things no one really talks about? The things you can't concretely and quickly "solve" about this life? Things like feeling alone because no one you know "gets it," or reasoning out WHY you prefer the hard work of raising your food over simply hitting the grocery store. Who can you turn to? How can you overcome these hurdles?
(You can read more about the more "black and white" homesteading considerations at http://findinggoodliving.com/is-homesteading-right-for-me/.)
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