Want to live off your land? More population are pursuing a lifestyle of self-reliance, depending upon themselves for their food and development a living by homesteading. If you long to get off the office treadmill and onto your own land, here are fifteen crucial steps you should take to pursue your life of freedom:
Get out of debt
Live Off Your Land - Fifteen Steps You Can Take to Get Out of the Cubicle and Onto Self-Reliance
As any farmer will tell you, unless you own a corporation with hundreds, if not thousands of acres, you won't make a overwhelming wage living off the land. Those farmers who do own hundreds of acres and thousands of dollars worth of tool (along with the mortgages to prove it) are struggling to get by. The underground is to live simply and downsize. Sell that newer car with those high car payments and buy a used model, preferably with no payments. Stop eating out as much and use that extra money to pay off your loans.
Get some land
You don't need hundreds of acres, but if you want to live off your land, you will need at least five. You will want sufficient space for a good sized garden, along with some farm animals. Live in town? think selling or renting that house and buying a used man-made home set on a small acreage instead. Many population do it and live quite conveniently - and debt free.
Learn to grow your own food
Put in a lot of raised beds and grow potatoes, carrots, tomatoes and other vegetables. Learn to keep your food straight through canning, drying and freezing, so that you go to your pantry instead of the grocery store, cutting down on cost and time.
Raise chickens
These overwhelming birds will provide you with eggs, meat, and even wage if you raise sufficient of them. Fresh chicken eggs are easy to sell. These eggs are delicious, and if they come from chickens who have eaten mostly grass and insects - chickens who live in chicken tractors, for example - they are also far healthier and more indispensable than the store-bought brand.
Get your goat
Goats will provide you with milk, meat and cheese. Control their diet - only hay and grains - and your goat's milk will taste exactly like cow's milk, only sweeter. Plus, many population are realizing the health benefits of raw goat's milk, development it a marketable product. Get two or three female goats - or does - along with a billy goat, and you will have sufficient milk for your family and some extra to sell to cover your cost.
Diversify what you sell
Many population who try living off the land make the mistake of raising a single goods in large provide and then selling it. But if the crop fails, then you are in trouble. Instead, raise a small provide of any items to sell. Sell chicken eggs and goat's milk, honey and furnish when it's in season. That way if one item fails to produce, you have others to fall back on.
Avoid the exotic
A few years ago, raising ostriches were all the rage. At least they were until those raising them realized not many population are willing to eat ostrich meat. It is far wiser to stick with the accepted fare - chickens, pigs, and beef, for example. Raising something unusual and hoping to get rich off it - like many get-rich-quick schemes -usually leaves you with an empty pocketbook and an animal nobody wants and you have to feed.
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