How to Finance Your Homestead: The Pantry Chat- Food for Thought
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- Buying a homestead, whether it is 1/4 or 40 acres, is a big investment. What's the best way to go about it? Buy with all cash if you've got it and then develop it as more resources come your way, or is getting a mortgage so you have some funds left over to build your dream a better way to go?
The answer may surprise you. Join Josh and Carolyn today on The Pantry Chat - Food for Thought as they share their experiences and things to think about when buying a property to homestead.
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I’ve never bought an animal without housing but last winter my horses were freaking out about the barn. Me thinking nothing of it and walking in to find a domestic white duck in the corner. How he got there nobody knows, but he has found a forever home with shelter now! 😂🦆
Just have to say before I even start watching it has been such a joy and encouragement to see your faces every week and listen to your experience. Thank you so much for doing this. If I could afford your class just to support you I would. I used to make cheese for our local raw milk dairy farm but it would be very interesting to see how you're doing it on a home scale.
Can you do a video on homeschooling? What does your homeschooling day look like with all of the work on the homestead and your businesses? What curriculum do you use?
This was my very first question, how to finance and make a living. Awesome video!
Thank you. Your instructions helps in reducing my sense of urgency. I am a planner and some of my urgency is getting the plan done fast. However, the more I watch my 4 favorite homesteaders and gardeners, the more I learn I need to learn more.
Here in San Antonio Texas I was looking at I was looking at acres and I could have gotten 11 acres for about a 160 K. I wanted to buy that much so that eventually when my younger adults who are in their twenties decide they want to have a home of their own they can justhey can just build on their property that I could give them an acre each
Love your advice on everything ❤ You both have very practical experience to help others succeed ❤❤❤
Another excellent pantry chat. These are my favourite videos you guys put out
love your chats learning lots and am applying most of it thank you
Thanks so much guys! We grew up in the country and are waiting for the Lord's timing to move our family. Wise words not living in a tent with kids, may get old fast! 😀
Thank you so much for sharing all your experiences...I really appreciate it. So excited for the upcoming cheese/dairy class...yippee!!🙂🌻🐄
Thank you for answering my question. I'm excited about the dairy class.
Love your channel and advice.
married a city boy...that loved the country.... have gotten the cart before the horse a few times. chickens, horse, ducks etc...had chickens actually roosting in trees...that was "fun" trying to get them down and eventually into the chicken shed and fenced in run.........
Just love all your content! Excited to learn even more from you two. You truly do have the best classes on the internet! I’ve enjoyed your canning and bread classes already….going to add dairy to that on 9/1! Thanks again for all you do.
YUP!!!!! YES!!! YES WE HAVE BOUGHT CHICKENS, TURKEYS, PIGS, ALL BEFORE WE WERE PREPARED... :)
Awesome timing for this! We'll be looking at buying 20+ acres in a few years. Our goals are to become debt free first (car and school loans) and then use the house we have to sell to use against a larger mortgage (house plus lots of land) and only have that as our debt. But we'll both be working full time. My dream is to quit my job but it may take quite a number of years lol
Great info, thank you! ❤️
Realistic about the family situation and work season is sooo true. I have tiny children and my husband just launched his own business. Every time we regroup and start working on our goals, something significant shifts and things have to slow back down 🤣🤣🤣.
I always assumed that "finger-TIP" tight meant you didn't use the palm of your hand at all. Just your finger tips. I only use my finger tips and have always had good success. IN fact, when I take my jars out, often the lids are completely loose and the jar still seals.
Yep, same here. I was taught to put the ring on one-handed, and tighten until the jar begins to turn, then give it just a tiny nudge beyond that point. That will give you a sense of what the correct tightness feels like.
Now I just tighten until I feel resistance. Good seals every time!
The ring is only meant to keep the lid from becoming misaligned or falling off; It's not meant to assist with sealing.
Can't do dairy at this time but man I sure would love to
Great informative video!
Working on getting a half acre homestead set up. It’s what we can afford and what we can work with physically. We need to get our health in order before we can handle more.
Smart to be happy with what you can afford and manage. Congrats. Then it will be a pleasure not a burden.
Hi Guys! Could you do a video on seed saving please?!! I really need to understand how to do this
You only grow 1 variety of that particular species (scientific names are important here) & let the fruit get 100% mature (way more than you would for eating) or the seeds wont be viable.
Make sure its originally an open pollinated variety.
This is a whole topic that 1 video couldnt cover.
Melissa k norris has several vids on this topic that are really good to get you started.
@@backwoodsbaby9729 Thank you!!!
I also see cold weather homesteaders in zone 3 use Stupice and Manitoba tomatoes. They are 60-65 days. Good flavor,
Being in Southern California I can get ripe tomatoes from the garden in February but I don't get much in the summer. I treat summer down here sort of like others treat winter - things in the garden die back and you only go outside for short bits of time if you have to. We're currently looking at moving and buying land hopefully in the next month or two.
I hope to take your dairy class in the future but just getting gardens set up now with new house--totally overwhelmed! I've made some soft cheese but would love to learn how to do hard cheeses at home. Someday! Love your videos and the fact that what you share is often very relevant to me--I also live in Idaho. We have some microclimates in our area but I believe I'm in Zone 5a. Also short growing season, something like 90 days. All the best to you~
Our barn was not ready when our kids got their market lambs for 4-H. We set up a temporary pen in our attached garage. While we would be eating dinner, we would hear the lambs crying. When we would open the garage door (in our kitchen) we would see them looking at us. They lived in the garage for about one month.
You're not alone in "putting the cart before the horse". We got chicks before their coop was built, got goats before their fence was ready. We had to put them on a run until we were ready. 😬
Putting the cart before the horse, story of my life! Lol still cant seem to learn!
We are in the same boat. My husband and daughter bought chicks before we had a chicken coop, the he bought 2 nany goats before we had a pen for them. we ended housing them in our duck pen at first.
them are all great tomatoes, i grew all of them
Question for you guys. How do you store your mason jars? We currently put our jars back into the boxes they came in and put them on the shelf. This doesn’t seem as good or as efficient as it could be. Thanks!
i watch people get ahead of themselves over and over and over again. They as what i think, i advise and they don’t listen but do what they wanted to do to start with. They weren’t looking for advise, they were looking for permission. So i don’t advise people anymore, in fact i try to keep entirely to myself as much as possible with little to no interaction with others.
We bought a breeding pair of Idaho pasture pigs before we had housing as well ours will be ready in mid October so we are working on housing and fencing. Our horses are going to share a portion of the arena with the pigs, it should be interesting.
Also look at what your money can earn if invested vs mortgage interest rate.
Some places have an impact fee which can be thousands if the property has never been developed.
I had no interest in dairy as I assumed you need unpasteurized! But if I can use store bought for cheese, butter, and sour cream. That’s awesome. Now to find time. My corn and almost all summer crops died. But now I have corn growing in the rocks! I’m going to plant some more and try for a fall harvest. Here in Az it’s definitely warm enough. I found a short growing type I’m going to try. I ended up with a little volunteer pepper I’m going to pot it and try to winter it inside.
The last video by Carolyn discusses this. (Unpasteurized milk is not required.)
Where can I buy a red kettle like the one Carolyn uses in her canning videos. I love it!!
I love you guys and I miss your old clothes! The shirts, they are just so "cheesy" ;)
Thank you for the info! Can you add context to the cost of homesteading ongoing? Costs to get started, but then “bills” to keep your current homestead going. Garden turnover, soil, animal feed, gas, etc etc. it’s hard to price this stuff out and plan up front as you recommended without more context around average spend and if sometimes you have to drop something you started 🙏🏼 more of your personal story if that makes sense!
QUESTION: Can you recommend any well-thought-out, well written, vetted homesteading how-to books you can recommend? They must be out there.
i think they have a youtube video out of books they recommend for anyone wanting to homestead
@@bigboyeric7508 I guess I missed that one. I'll look for it. I know there was a video on root cellaring where they recommended books on that topic--and I purchased one they recommended. Excellent.
@@debkincaid2891 th-cam.com/video/11SSCTyYRxk/w-d-xo.html i got you :)
@@bigboyeric7508 Fabulous! Thanks so much. 😊
Thank you!!
What’s the challenge with tomatoes in your climate? Is it the cold nights specifically or the variance between the daytime high and the overnight low?
I got 30 meat chicks without outside housing ready for them. I thought I would use one of those portable carports, but that didn't work, so we scrambled to find housing for them once they were too big to stay in the house.
This is the first time you have popped upon my feed for at least a year but good to see you again
Check to see how your bell is set up. If you have it set on personal it won't always pop up on feed. I have mine set on all and it works well
@@paulross2979 there is not a bell setting on my phone screen on the TH-cam itself is there another place where I would find it
@@debheesen2097 there should be a bell next to the subscribed label. Click on that. Bell and it will bring up the options
@@paulross2979 oh duh LOL thank you.
@@debheesen2097 it's all about getting the notifications. I learned the hard way. For months I was missing the notifications until someone told me. Have a great day. 😃
Do you know where there is a plan laid out to help newbies to organize what needs to get done first when starting a homestead?
We are the only ones in our family with more than a city plot. Everyone alwasy comments that 1.3 acers is a lot, always " thats a lot of land". But living on the 1.3 in the mountains, so very hilly lots of cliffs is not a lot when you want to homestead. (The land was an inheritance from someone who just wanted to live in the woods away from people.)
It just shows how people don't pay attention.
Hi, I am on the cheese wait list - have I missed the fun stuff? I haven’t seen anything, do I need to sign in to get the specials?
I brought home my first four hens and had only just begun to build a coop. The first night it was late, so we put them in the mudroom off the back of the house. Boy did i regret that! I learned that chicken poop really stinks in small enclosed spaces! And they had decided to roost on the edge of the garbage can that we collect our returnable cans and bottles in, so i had to clean up their mess off of all those! LOL!
Hi! This is Ms. Wallace,
How deep do you till deep and/or shallow? Is 8 feet is deep and 4 feet is shallow? Also, when you till you mentioned 1 a year; is there a certain time of year you should till your property? Oh an should it be tilled in sections? Say, you have 40 acres but you use 1 acre for planting, 2 acres for your animals? How when should those areas be tilled?
I have many questions but I want to know too, is it best to have sheep, lama’s or goat to use to keep grass from growing too high?
You're under pressure cuz you're in a pickle and a jam!
I sure wish I could take your class, but I care for my 96yr old mom, and have no definite schedule. Hope it all goes well.
When to start indoors planting starts im here in ponderay id
Question: Talking about homesteads and building reminded me that you were building your parents a home on your homestead. I may have missed it but has the home been completed?
Me and my husband have plans to immigrate (back) to the states from the Netherlands 🇳🇱 and settle in Oklahoma,he is originally from there I never traveled anywhere further then Austria 🇦🇹
we have 2 kids both from a different marriage I have always wanted to move to the states and be self sufficient so I have been teaching my self the skills needed as much as I can cause I know that most of the work is gonna fall on me and I am more then ok with that (I I’m 35 my husband is 52).
This past year I have started our “plan” what veggies We want what kind of livestock how much we need of each when to plant what and how, when to get what kind of live stock and what kind of machinery we are gonna need/want in the long run I even budgeted out insemination costs for the specific breed of cow I want (Dutch belted) etc.
I am no where near done with the plan but it gives us an idea of how things will go in broad strokes (we all know how well thought out plans tend to go 😂) we hope to move within the next 4 years. So we still have a good chunk of time to fine tune and do some more reading and learning.
Also talk to the local farm credit service for financing
You mentioned river bend, are you in Pend Oreille? 😊
I heard you talking about early-season Tomatoes. I didn't catch the original video about it. A question is I live in Florida, if I started the seedlings inside very early and then transferred outside do you think I would be able to get a crop before it got hot? Do they really grow that much quicker?
I left something out of the question I was curious if I used the cold weather Tomatoes like the glacier
We were given five chickens. We had a chicken tractor for TWO chickens… 😆🙄😅. We had no run, and had no idea what we were doing. But we figured it out. 🙌✌️
Guess I'm a homesteader then. Mine was chickens.
I’d love to chat with y’all about our future plans. We have 5 acres & just beginning. We haven’t done much but afraid to jump in the wrong direction.
We had a buckling of a few lids this year (my son was helping me) are they good to use if we use them first, or should I discard? I had never had this happen before and wasn't sure what happened.
You probably got an answer or threw them away by now, but if you see this on the first day, you can put them in the fridge and use them as you would perishable leftovers. But they are not safely canned. You can't put them on the shelf.
How do you guys do this much work and afford it all? It’s not cheap to live this lifestyle. As much work as it takes ( totally worth it in my opinion) it takes money to do this. Josh you must have a great job or made a lot of money and manage it well. The average working family couldn’t take this lifestyle on without major planning. Is there any tips for getting started in this gradually or just saving some money here and there
I’m a master at getting animals before the housing! And you’re right don’t do it!!
My Question is for Carolyn do you know anything about vegan cheeses? My grandson is very allergic to dairy and we have to use vegan cheese and he loves Mac and cheese or even a pizza and the products on the market are very limited or don’t taste good as well as I am not sure about the nutritional values of these products. Thank you for all your hard work you put into everything and sharing your knowledge with us. Have a wonderful and blessed day.
What about goats milk cheese's? They're usually alot nice and easier to make than vegan cheeses
@@Silverstreamhomecrafts We have tried goats milk and the only milk he seems to tolerate is Lactose free milk don’t understand why he got sick with the goats milk that’s what I had to use on his mother when she was a baby because she was Allergic to milk also but out grew it he will not out grow his. His dad is epic pen allergic to soy and fish so the doctor thinks it’s a combination of different things so it has to be vegan. That’s why I have tried to learn to make it and have found recipes on u tube but I really trust your knowledge and that’s why I was wondering if you have tried to make it or have any good recipes for making it? Thank you for responding.
No you aren't alone with the livestock buys. I figured out that if I had only Nubians (at the time) I could add to the herd and because they looking the same I could add new goats. And it would take quite awhile for him to notice it . Then it was "when did that new goat get here"? Me "which new goat?" Unfortunately after I integrated LaMancha's to the herd that was not an option. Lol
I am wondering how you can still pay your bills if you are working fulltime on the farm. You need to have some form of income especially if you've got a mortgage. Everything you guys do is incredible expensive, for example If I would like to have a few hundred jars to store food in it will cost me a few hundred. If I'm working in the garden I don't have that. So can I finance such a way of living?
The cart before the horse, that's how I ended up driving cross country back to our property with a frigging goat chilling in a hammock in the back window of my camper 🤣
lol, that's a story I want to hear!
@@twochickenshomestead9836 we took a trip to Florida to visit my husband's grandparents and while there, my husband helped their neighbor with some farm work. They raised goats, and we had talked about getting goats when we got back home..... but my husband thought it would be OK 'if he just got one baby goat now, to be his 'lil buddy'. So we have a huge bay window that covers the back of our RV and he put a freaking cat hammock hanging across the window 'so his lil buddy could relax and sight see' on the 34 hour drive home. And that is how it happened, I've never been honked at so much lol.
Be prepared before getting livestock very good and particle advice. But unfortunately I'm terrible about this. I'm Absolutely pathological about it:) Conversation in our home "Hay honey I just found this flock of sheep for sale on craigslist. It's a great deal we really shouldn't let it go!" Never mind we have no fencing, shelter, anything set up for sheep and it's the middle of winter in Maine!! Horses, sheep, goats, chickens, rabbits, we even had our KIDS before having a room for them 🤣 Just watch our episode on DIY's show building off the Grid. Maine Mountain Home. Good advice, Love the info, keep it up.
You're in Maine too? Neato! Glad to meet another Mainer!❤❤
actually thats prudance. prudance is avoiding the mistake without having to be the one who makes it wisdom is learning
Have you thought about red worms for compost? 😊
I use Red Wiggler Worms for all my Composting. Also, seed pastures & Orchard with RWW's.
Never Night Crawlers.
@@susanschneider-baker49 At a farmers market we had a nice older man give us a bucket of red worms. We failed. :(
I want to try again but have no idea where to get them?
@@TuckedAwayHomestead Walmart live fishing bait is the easiest way to get some.
Do you have a good list of due diligence when buying land?
They did a video about this, check it out.
homesteadingfamily.com/8-things-you-need-to-know-when-buying-homestead-property/
I just bought the new Homesteading Quickstart Bundle and was charged $79.00 and it was supposed to be $29.00. What gives? I e=mailed support and got no response.
Hey Pat! We did reply to you within 3 hours of your emailing, and refunded your over purchase. Sounds like you ended up on the full price page, not the sale page.
@@HomesteadingFamily Yes. I already had an account and it redirected me to another page. Thank you for taking care of it so quickly. Now onto cheese!
oh my goodness, we didnt buy an animal without housing BUT we did get a couple of pigs thinking we had the appropriate housing only to find they were better escape artiste than we could ever imagine 🤦♀️
We are getting a late start but we JUST had an offer accepted on a log home with 10 acres with a huge barn and Amish built chicken coop. My husband is retiring. We are moving from California to Ohio. We had 12 kids, we'll be married 30 years in November. I wish we'd done it sooner but we trust God's timing. It will be total paid for and then some, no debt at all. We wouldn't have been able to do that at any other time. Our youngest 4 are coming with and some of the older ones may come back. Who knows. This will be the greatest adventure of our lives. I'm devouring the homestead videos! Thank you so much!
She’s under pressure! (Dun dun dun dun dun dun)
maybe it's a video-organization issue, but the meandering, completely unrelated tangents are way too much. Came to learn about the $, couldn't get past the intro...