5 Tips for Beginning Homesteaders

5 Helpful Tips for Beginning Homesteaders
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🔹TOPICS COVERED

* The health & weight issues that moved him to start farming.
* His research and the Joel Salatin rabbit hole.
* Local meat butchers who just buy from meat brokers.
* Raising chickens w/o vaccines or antibiotics & the taste difference.
* Pasture-raised pork vs. grocery store pork.
* Tips and learning curves.
* Pig breeds and which is best for homesteaders.
* The sad parts of homesteading.
* How he used pigs to cleared underbrush in his woods.
* How he and his friends & neighbors help each other.
* More about pastured chickens vs. conventional.
* Which type of chicken tractor he recommends.
* What his wife thinks of homesteading.
* The money you can save raising your own animals.
* Where he gets his baby chicks.
* How NOT transparent the hatchery is.
* Marketing your farm business.
* Getting into the Rockford farmers market.
* How people are put off by prices, not knowing the difference in quality.
* Farmers using newsletters to market themselves.
* What if you can’t find affordable land?
* How to get started on only 4-5 acres.
* Finding land that is NOT all woods.
* Clearing his woods to make pasture.
* Why plan things out FIRST.
* Be slow in starting, get infrastructure in place.
* Keep your other job, keep bills low.
* Should you take out a loan to do things quicker?
* The year he went too fast & spent too much.
* If you only had one acre, where/how should you start?
* The different chicken breeds.
* How many pigs you could do on an acre of land.
* What time of year to start raising your layers.
* The negatives of heat lamps for chickens.
* How to cycle lighting for constant eggs.
* Butchering chickens yourself?
* Raising kids on the farm.

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