On this episode of Homesteady, we continue our Homestead Business Side Hustle Series and interview Dan Arms, of the Arms Family Homestead (Find him here and here). Dan’s successful business? Goats. Would you believe that a goat solved the problems of an entire country? Believe it, and learn all about it here. We meet Dan […]
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How To Make $10,000 From Your Homestead with Agrotourism
On this episode of Homesteady, we meet Elaine Vandiver of Old Homestead Alpacas. Elaine’s journey to her purpose began on 9/11. A college student at the time, She felt the right thing for her to do was the join the army and serve her country. Now, she’s an alpaca farmer. Wait, what? Let’s back up. […]
You Are Going To Screw Up
I promise you that you are going to screw up. Let me explain. When you finally take that jump and start homesteading… Or maybe you already started and you get your first livestock… or plant your first crop…. Point is, when you decide to do something new, you are going to make mistakes. How do […]
Using a Lifestyle Business to Design the Life You Want
Sometimes the most obvious way of solving a problem is not the best way. On this episode of Homesteady, we explore our most valuable non-renewable resource: time. Beginning with the story of the Village on the Hill, we see that looking outside the box for a different solution may be the best way for us […]
The Turkeys are All Dead….
The biggest failure of our 2017 homesteading year was our Turkey endeavor. We picked up 17 birds back in March. By the end of the next day only 2 were alive. A few months back the female was killed by some predator. Leaving only one big Tom. Homesteading is going to fill your life with […]
Why Your Homestead Business Will Fail
On this episode of Homesteady, Aust further explores the dream vs. the reality of homesteading, by explaining the harshest reality of them all: why your homestead business WILL fail. Through video, Aust’s brother-in-law parodies the overt optimism that brings us into the homesteading world in the first place: the beauty of vegetables, the imagined ease […]
