8 Ways to Make Money While Homesteading

  • As a homesteader, you have nature at your disposal. It can be such a refreshing environment for individuals who live in the cities to escape to. Use that to your advantage! Another reason you've been able to jump to an off-the-grid lifestyle is because you're creative and innovative. You know how to make the most of nature so that's another way to grab people's attention. There are several ways to turn your homestead retreat into a unique and profitable business. A combination of technology and nature allows us to do that!

    1. Conduct farm demos and nature tours. Give talks and workshops. Share farming and bushcraft skills with schools, scout clubs, youth and church groups. Gather all your pets and farm animals for a weekend petting zoo. Hold a fall festival, complete with a pumpkin patch, games and bounce houses. Do hiking, horse-riding, ATV, mountain-biking and snowmobile tours.

    2. Rent your land. Depending on the size, features and proximity of your land to towns, industry and tourist attractions, you could rent a portion of it for different uses. Camping. Firing range. Outdoor team-building workshops. Location for film and photo shoots.

    3. Rent your structures. Rent your barn for special events like workshops, parties, Thanksgiving banquets and wedding receptions. There’s also good money to be made in leasing a room or cottage for a bed-and-breakfast stay or a winter holiday retreat. You could lease a small cabin for a good fee. Marketing is key — register with your local tourism board and with AirBnB.com.

    4. Offer specialized services. Carpentry, welding, plumbing, car maintenance and farm equipment repair are trades that are always needed in rural areas. So are trucking and hauling goods like hay, lumber, livestock and all kinds of produce.

    5. Teach art, sports or a special skill. Do you have a unique talent others might want to learn? Even with this age of You Tube tutorials, there may be students in your area looking for teachers that can offer specialized, on-the-spot demonstration — without having to be licensed instructors.

    6. Do professional service online. There are dozens of websites where you could sign up for part or full-time contracts: Flexjobs, Upwork, Fiverr, People per Hour, and Guru. These are location-independent jobs you can do whenever and wherever, if you have fast, reliable Internet. Once you clinch a few good, loyal clients, you’ll be good.

    7. Make and sell crafts. Do you fancy refurbishing furniture? Repurposing old doors, windows and used pallets into unique new home decor? You can supply these to your local craft store or sell online, through Etsy and eBay. Or, you can start your own online store – it’s a lot cheaper and easier than buying or renting commercial space.

    8. Sell non-edible farm produce. Sell goods that are off-shoots of what you already grow and do in your homestead. Timber. Firewood. Medicinal herbs. Fresh or dried flowers. Exotic ornamental plants. Vermicompost as potting soil. Worms for worm bins. Soaps and essential oils.

    With some of the above, you’ll have to check local and federal laws for restrictions that may apply. And particularly for those that involve some level of risk, you’d do best to include a liability insurance.

    Have you been able to earn income by using your homestead in any of these ways? Do you have other ideas for earning money by homesteading?

    Article Source: Off The Grid News

     



    5 Comments

    1. Joseph Ensley said:

      Let’s pray for this, plan, and allow the most high Yah to choose land for us. 🙂 Future don’t look so bad after all!

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