October 20, 2023 • 19 mins
What if you could have land that paid for itself? Not because you extracted resources, but instead because you were a good steward. A homestead that provides for you and your family in 12-months or less. That’s what this episode is about.
Start homesteading today. Transition from the daily grind you face to a life of peace and abundance. Do this starting today without owning land, without a lot of money, and without all the headaches many others face.
Avoid these common homesteading mistakes that break the bank. Understand the reality of what homesteading can do for you and how to get started. You don’t need a lot of money to homestead, it can truly be a life of abundance.
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Start homesteading today. Transition from the daily grind you face to a life of peace and abundance. Do this starting today without owning land, without a lot of money, and without all the headaches many others face.
Avoid these common homesteading mistakes that break the bank. Understand the reality of what homesteading can do for you and how to get started. You don’t need a lot of money to homestead, it can truly be a life of abundance.
Want free resources, podcasts, and more to help you homestead? Join us at https://www.prosperityhomestea...
#HomesteadingSkills #RuralLand #RegenerativeAgriculture #NaturalFarming
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(00:00):
I asked the gentleman today, whatamount of money did he need to focus
one hundred percent on his small farmso that he can have the abundance and
food security that he's looking for.And the number that he gave me was
shocking and surprising, and I'm goingto show you how to raise that amount
no matter how high it is.But it was only twenty thousand dollars.
(00:21):
So he said, if I hadtwenty thousand dollars in income coming into this
farm, I could focus on thefarm, provide for my family, provide
food to my community, and somuch more. I'm just in hit with
Prosperity Homestead, and we're going totalk about how to make money from your
land so that you can have theopportunity. Now, whether it's twenty thousand
(00:41):
dollars or two hundred thousand dollars,your land becomes the sanctuary for success and
delivers value to your community. Now, I'm going to give you the disclaimer
right up front. You're likely notgoing to make twenty thousand dollars or two
hundred thousand dollars or even ten thousanddollars when you first get started on your
(01:03):
land, especially if you make someof the common mistakes that folks make when
it comes to starting a homestead.Now, very often the first mistake they
make is that they go too big. They say, well, we're going
to sell at the farmer's market,and we're going to raise pigs, and
we're gonna raise goats, and we'regoing to do this, and we're going
to do that. And then whenthey realize it could take six months to
get powered to raw land, andthat the well's gonna be late, and
(01:26):
that fencing costs you twelve thirteen dollarsa foot, and all these other other
things happen, they realize that themoney is going out rather than coming in,
and so they might be able toimplement everything they thought they were going
to implement the first year. Andthen they go to the bank and they
(01:47):
put in a deposit two hundred thousanddollars. Let's say it's a miracle,
Jesus comes down blesses your farm,and you make two hundred thousand dollars that
year. I can guarantee you thatthe net on that still going to be
under minimum wage. And a lotof farmers are working for free. And
it's okay if you're working for freeas long as your freezers full of food,
(02:08):
as long as your family's taken careof, as long as you have
health care, as long as youhave safety and security in your household,
as long as you have the weekendsto get a breather. Most farmers work
seven days week by the way,you're going to get a couple hours in
the evening to get a breather.But again, over time, though,
(02:28):
if you're not making these mistakes andnot having these inflated expectations that a lot
of people push out there as marketing, then over three to five years,
you can certainly have these things.Now, the amount of money you gain
from a farm is relative to yourlocation, your experience, and the activities
(02:52):
on your farm. So when Istart going through these different ways to make
money from your land, you haveto understand that you'll probably find one or
two ways that work really well foryou, but the majority of them are
not going to fit. And that'sokay, okay, because you really want
to find the things that work foryour land. For example, grow maple
(03:13):
syrup. If you're in a coldclimate and there's trees that are maple trees,
then you can grow maple syrup.But will you have the skill set,
the process it and bring it tomarket. And the way we solve
this now because I'm going to readthese things off and I don't want you
to say, oh, well,justin I can't do those things, because
well, that's true. You mightnot be able to do those things.
(03:34):
You might not have the skill,you might not have the appropriate land,
you might not have the market thatcan buy your product or service. But
the biggest thing is is that whenyou know about these things, you can
actually network with other people and partner. That's what I'm doing with my farm,
That's what I'm doing with this nomadiccaretaking that we're talking about, is
partner with other people in your communityto develop the farm, to develop the
(03:59):
homestead that you're looking for. Andso the key here is to have the
lowest overhead possible and maximize the productand value you can deliver from your farm.
There's nothing more important to your farmthan the actual customer itself, because
again, you want money from comingfrom outside the farm. And it's okay
(04:20):
if and this is the first thinghow people can make money with your property.
It's okay if you work remote.So maybe you've got an online job,
you work remote for an office somewhereand you're doing your farming around a
forty hour week job that is okay, that is making money from your land.
You have to you don't have tofeel like you failed, because again
we're measuring success by free net cashflow and food security and family security and
(04:46):
being able to sit down at dinnerwith your family and look them in the
eyes and not be rushed and say, family, how's your day been,
you know, eating good food,spending time together, getting to be involved
in your community. So again,as I read these things that you can
use, and it's not gonna bethe complete list of how to make money
from your land, but it's gonnabe a good way to get started.
(05:09):
Understand that this manifests in so manydifferent ways. So if you're a professional
in an urban space right now,or you're working in a city and you
want to escape to the country,don't leave everything behind. If you have
the opportunity to continue to receive apaycheck while you're working from remote, you
might find that situation works much betterthan going into the city. Perhaps you
(05:31):
can have transferable skills. You're gonnamake a little bit less money in the
rural areas because most farms and homesteadsare in rural areas or urban suburban areas.
Maybe you're gonna work in the samefield in a little different place.
It's not necessary to leave it allbehind, because again, it's the revenue
you're producing, the multiple streams ofincome you're producing with your land while creating
(05:55):
the habitat and environment. Maybe you'renow homeschooling your kids and you have a
little bit more free time to doit because you're not commuting. Maybe you're
in a situation where you have tobuild these things. So for example,
this one activity here, growing amixed orchard forest. Okay, so growing
fruit trees, you're going to bethree to five years before you have any
fruit. Now, of course,you could grow berries and get started quickly.
(06:18):
If your climate supports it. Youcan grow paul paul that grows a
little faster. You could grow papaya, different things like that. But in
a temperate climate, your fruit treesare going to take a long time,
three to five years before you're goingto have fruit. But again, if
this is something you want to do, you start right now. You still
do what you're already doing, andyou start right now. In fact,
(06:40):
you don't even need to live onthe land to start your orchard. Next
is silvo pasture forestry. This isgoing to take even longer ten twenty thirty
years to have the forestry product.But in the short term you could be
cutting hay. In between the trees, you could have hedgerows. Than in
between the hedgerows, you're pasturing animals, goats, sheep, pigs on pasture.
(07:05):
Now, if you already have awooded lot, you can have the
pigs under the trees and goats underthe trees and cordon off certain areas on
contour to start doing your silver pasture. And so in the short term you
could be running chickens, goats,pigs, cattle even if if the land
is big enough, and then overtime move into the silver pasture. But
again you still have to have amarket. Taking your animals to the slaughter
(07:29):
yard is not going to get youtop dollar. So you got to have
a market. And what is thatmarket now and what is that market in
the future. I mentioned growing maplesyrup. That depends on having maple trees.
What about timber sales? So Iknow a lot of folks have either
acquired land through their family or havebought land that has timber on it that
(07:50):
could be viable timber. And onething you have to know in a temperate
climate about oak trees and about alot of these hardwood trees is there only
got to live fifty to sixty years. After fifty or sixty years, the
conditions have to be absolutely perfect forthat tree to keep growing. It's not
like a sequoia, you know,it's not like a big evergreen tree.
(08:11):
It will if there's erosion, itwill fall over. So again, if
you get a piece of land andyou can you can cut it temperate,
you now have an income source there. But think about this. Let's say
those trees are about ten to fifteenyears old. They're good oak trees,
but they're not that big. Youcan sell hunting licenses under those trees.
(08:33):
Think about that. A well managedland will have an abundance of wildlife turkey,
deer, bear, rabbit, multipleseasons which you can lease out a
license. What about growing gensing.I hear a lot of people talking about
growing gensing or other medicipal herbs,and so you could have a garden next
(08:54):
to your house that's selling this growingmedicipal herbs which you dry out for teas
or in a larger forestry area.You can grow gensing golden rod. There's
a lot of different types of goldenseal, there's a lot of different types
of herbs you can grow. Again, that has a different time frame in
which those things are available. Now, it's a big mistake to simply go
(09:15):
out and do these things and notfirst investigate this skills necessary, the time
investment, and then to put thesethings out on a timeline, because again,
we want to do what's good forthe property. We want to do
what's appropriate for the land so thatwe're not harming that land and we're certainly
not destroying the land in any way. Now, let's talk about stacking a
(09:37):
function in modern chemical based agriculture.They're going to cut out all the trees,
they're going to bulldoze it, they'regoing to turn it into fields,
they're going to monocrop. If youwant a homestead that is sustainable, that
provides food for you year round,and ultimately has land that increases in value,
(09:58):
we want to look at stacking functionin a polyculture. Now what does
that mean. It means that ifwe've got animals and perhaps they're installs and
they're manuing that we're taking that manure, composting it and then putting it into
a garden. If we've got agarden and it creates surplus biomass, we
take the surplus biomass and we feedit to chickens, or we feed it
to goats, or feed it tosome other type of animal. We're stacking
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function. Even in the forest itself. We're finding areas of the forest where
we can raise pigs under trees,and or we can raise goats in the
woods, or we can raise cattleand a silver pasture model again, because
we're getting multiple layers in that forest. For example, even you can have
layers of seven layers of the forestwhen it comes to the food. But
(10:45):
ultimately we're conserving water, we're mulching, we're understanding our sun aspects and cycles,
and then we're building on that landthese cash flowing elements. Now,
some folks get upset I talk permacultureand capitalism in the same sentence. So
let me wrap up with that andwhy it's important that we're not talking about
(11:09):
money so much as we're talking aboutenergy in and out. Now, capital
is a storage of means. Soif you've got a piece of land and
it has trees growing on it.Those trees are capital. If you've got
livestock, those livestock is capital.In fact, the whole economic system is
(11:33):
based on livestock trade. And ifyou've converted livestock into money, you've also
got capital. All of these thingsneed to provide for your family. All
of these things need to be surplusand abundant in order to take care of
inflation, to stay up with risingcosts due to encroachment. A lot of
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you folks don't understand when you're goingin there and buying five acres. I
know you're dreaming of five acres,but I want you to have fifty or
five hundred, because that five acresis going to have a little towel next
to it before you know it.If you're deep into the country and you've
got a couple hundred acres, Iknow you're saying I can't afford it.
Again, I'm teaching you right nowhow to buy productive assets or how to
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make productive assets. And so whatwe're doing with the land is we're turning
it into a productive asset that providesfood as a dividend, provide safety as
a dividend, provide shelter as adividend, and it may provide capital as
well. Probably not in the firstcouple of years. Like I said,
even if you have a windfall becauseyou cut all the trees down, it's
(12:37):
still there's money to put new treesback, and there's conservation activities, and
there's land management, and there's buildingthe house. It usually does not come
out profitable in the first couple ofyears. And that's okay because again we're
avoiding the mistake of spontaneity, andwe're developing a plan just like you'd manage
(12:58):
a stock portfolio, just like you'dmanage career choices, just like this whole
decision to homestead. We're gonna sitdown with a piece of paper, and
a lot of times when we sitwith clients, they're very scared with this.
They don't they're there. They justrather just try it. And I
tell you it's more expensive to tryit than it is to have a plan
(13:18):
and and and project your way intoit. But we sit down with clients,
they often say this has been thebest thing in their life. I
sat down with one client two hundredacres of land had she had a variety
of people living on the land,running different activities through farm leases that were
there before she got the land,and we sat down and looked at the
plan, and she realized how muchpower she had in owning this land because
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she was originally just got to sellit, and she inherit the land,
and ultimately she was just got tosell it off, and she realized that
this was where she wanted to be. All the memories, that's another dividend.
A lot of people ignore the memories, the family experiences, the community,
all all of these things. We'reinvesting in and these multiple forms of
(14:03):
capital, and we're building that abundance. You know, that surplus of food
that you're able to create becomes storedcapital. It has a limited shelf life,
but can be traded with people inthe neighborhood. It can be passed
along into the community markets. Itcan be a blessing to people who are
in need or even just divided amongthe folks who work on your farm.
(14:26):
The key to understand here, though, is that all of these things is
because we look at the land asa productive asset that we're going to care
for, that we're going to serve, that we're going to manage, and
that we're going to be good stewardsof and in that stewardship, we may
end up with timber grazing, smallgardens, market gardens, large gardens,
cut flowers, but we're going todo it in a systematic approach so that
(14:52):
it's not overwhelming. One of thethings that I do for clients is we
help take the overwhelm out if itcomes down to not necessarily dollars and cents,
but if it comes down to thesedifferent profits that we're talking about,
where in that first year, itreally didn't cost you anything to move to
the farm because you still have incomecoming in, and in fact, you're
starting to lower your costs because you'reraising quality, healthy food for your family,
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because you're selling the surplus, orhave a partnership to sell the surplus,
or maybe you do like what whenI've talked about in other videos,
you partner with a local farm andyou didn't even have to buy land,
and you've started in the farming orinto the homesteading. There are so many
options that people overlook because again whenI start talking about make money from your
(15:37):
land, they either see it onlyas cash the extraction of money, rather
than a symbiotic relationship with that land, where you provide for the land,
the land provides for you, andyou live in harmony for generations. Now,
if you like to start your homesteadand in the next twelve months or
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less be up and living in thisabundance that we're talking about, I can
show you. Now it's based onyour skills. So when we do a
consultation, I'm going to ask alot about your skill set, your knowledge.
We can build on your skills,we can build on your experiences and
create for yourself an opportunity where youhave that relaxing abundance that comes from knowing
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that you've got quality food, thatyou've got quality housing, that you're low
impact on the environment, that yourhigh value in the community, and the
interactions that you have. There's alot to be learned from the permaculture design.
And the great thing about it isthat we can design your paradise on
(16:42):
paper. Now you've got your paradiseon paper. It might be the end
result that you're looking to go towards. It gives you that courage, it
gives you that vigor and that excitementto move towards that goal. And then
we can sit down and walk throughthe phases, the plans where do you
get started first? What do youdo next? And very often this is
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more valuable than the cost of yourland, because you might pay twelve twelve
thousand dollars an acre, twenty onethousand dollars an acre, two thousand dollars
an acre and get every penny ofit back in a lifetime of abundance and
a lifetime of food security, hedgesagainst inflation, investments that pay a lifetime
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of value, better experiences with yourfamily, many of the things that money
cannot buy yet still have the capitalnecessary, so use you're not negotiating with
the bank or having your farm takenaway from you in the future. I'm
just in hit with Prosperity Homestead,and I hope I've given you some ideas
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about how you can go from whereyou're at today to a homestead of abundance
and some of the characteristics of thatabundance and some of the means, because
the land itself has more value thanthe money and ultimately can produce for you
as you're a good steward for it. If you have any questions about what
we've covered today, please visit usat www dot Prosperity homestead dot org.
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me to cover. When it comesto homesteading or starting a small farm,
I actually work with a network ofprofessionals who are in the farming business and
in the helping business. I'll introduceyou to my mentors. I'll introduce you
to the folks that are helping meand the folks that I'm helping, and
maybe together as a community, wecan help you achieve your homesteading dreams in
(18:57):
twelve months or less. Again,I want to thank you for listening.
If you have questions, visit usat www dot prosperity homestead dot org and
I am just in hit with ProsperityHomestead and I'll see you in the next podcast.
I asked the gentleman today, whatamount of money did he need to focus
one hundred percent on his small farmso that he can have the abundance and
food security that he's looking for.And the number that he gave me was
shocking and surprising, and I'm goingto show you how to raise that amount
no matter how high it is.But it was only twenty thousand dollars.
(00:21):
So he said, if I hadtwenty thousand dollars in income coming into this
farm, I could focus on thefarm, provide for my family, provide
food to my community, and somuch more. I'm just in hit with
Prosperity Homestead, and we're going totalk about how to make money from your
land so that you can have theopportunity. Now, whether it's twenty thousand
(00:41):
dollars or two hundred thousand dollars,your land becomes the sanctuary for success and
delivers value to your community. Now, I'm going to give you the disclaimer
right up front. You're likely notgoing to make twenty thousand dollars or two
hundred thousand dollars or even ten thousanddollars when you first get started on your
(01:03):
land, especially if you make someof the common mistakes that folks make when
it comes to starting a homestead.Now, very often the first mistake they
make is that they go too big. They say, well, we're going
to sell at the farmer's market,and we're going to raise pigs, and
we're gonna raise goats, and we'regoing to do this, and we're going
to do that. And then whenthey realize it could take six months to
get powered to raw land, andthat the well's gonna be late, and
(01:26):
that fencing costs you twelve thirteen dollarsa foot, and all these other other
things happen, they realize that themoney is going out rather than coming in,
and so they might be able toimplement everything they thought they were going
to implement the first year. Andthen they go to the bank and they
(01:47):
put in a deposit two hundred thousanddollars. Let's say it's a miracle,
Jesus comes down blesses your farm,and you make two hundred thousand dollars that
year. I can guarantee you thatthe net on that still going to be
under minimum wage. And a lotof farmers are working for free. And
it's okay if you're working for freeas long as your freezers full of food,
(02:08):
as long as your family's taken careof, as long as you have
health care, as long as youhave safety and security in your household,
as long as you have the weekendsto get a breather. Most farmers work
seven days week by the way,you're going to get a couple hours in
the evening to get a breather.But again, over time, though,
(02:28):
if you're not making these mistakes andnot having these inflated expectations that a lot
of people push out there as marketing, then over three to five years,
you can certainly have these things.Now, the amount of money you gain
from a farm is relative to yourlocation, your experience, and the activities
(02:52):
on your farm. So when Istart going through these different ways to make
money from your land, you haveto understand that you'll probably find one or
two ways that work really well foryou, but the majority of them are
not going to fit. And that'sokay, okay, because you really want
to find the things that work foryour land. For example, grow maple
(03:13):
syrup. If you're in a coldclimate and there's trees that are maple trees,
then you can grow maple syrup.But will you have the skill set,
the process it and bring it tomarket. And the way we solve
this now because I'm going to readthese things off and I don't want you
to say, oh, well,justin I can't do those things, because
well, that's true. You mightnot be able to do those things.
(03:34):
You might not have the skill,you might not have the appropriate land,
you might not have the market thatcan buy your product or service. But
the biggest thing is is that whenyou know about these things, you can
actually network with other people and partner. That's what I'm doing with my farm,
That's what I'm doing with this nomadiccaretaking that we're talking about, is
partner with other people in your communityto develop the farm, to develop the
(03:59):
homestead that you're looking for. Andso the key here is to have the
lowest overhead possible and maximize the productand value you can deliver from your farm.
There's nothing more important to your farmthan the actual customer itself, because
again, you want money from comingfrom outside the farm. And it's okay
(04:20):
if and this is the first thinghow people can make money with your property.
It's okay if you work remote.So maybe you've got an online job,
you work remote for an office somewhereand you're doing your farming around a
forty hour week job that is okay, that is making money from your land.
You have to you don't have tofeel like you failed, because again
we're measuring success by free net cashflow and food security and family security and
(04:46):
being able to sit down at dinnerwith your family and look them in the
eyes and not be rushed and say, family, how's your day been,
you know, eating good food,spending time together, getting to be involved
in your community. So again,as I read these things that you can
use, and it's not gonna bethe complete list of how to make money
from your land, but it's gonnabe a good way to get started.
(05:09):
Understand that this manifests in so manydifferent ways. So if you're a professional
in an urban space right now,or you're working in a city and you
want to escape to the country,don't leave everything behind. If you have
the opportunity to continue to receive apaycheck while you're working from remote, you
might find that situation works much betterthan going into the city. Perhaps you
(05:31):
can have transferable skills. You're gonnamake a little bit less money in the
rural areas because most farms and homesteadsare in rural areas or urban suburban areas.
Maybe you're gonna work in the samefield in a little different place.
It's not necessary to leave it allbehind, because again, it's the revenue
you're producing, the multiple streams ofincome you're producing with your land while creating
(05:55):
the habitat and environment. Maybe you'renow homeschooling your kids and you have a
little bit more free time to doit because you're not commuting. Maybe you're
in a situation where you have tobuild these things. So for example,
this one activity here, growing amixed orchard forest. Okay, so growing
fruit trees, you're going to bethree to five years before you have any
fruit. Now, of course,you could grow berries and get started quickly.
(06:18):
If your climate supports it. Youcan grow paul paul that grows a
little faster. You could grow papaya, different things like that. But in
a temperate climate, your fruit treesare going to take a long time,
three to five years before you're goingto have fruit. But again, if
this is something you want to do, you start right now. You still
do what you're already doing, andyou start right now. In fact,
(06:40):
you don't even need to live onthe land to start your orchard. Next
is silvo pasture forestry. This isgoing to take even longer ten twenty thirty
years to have the forestry product.But in the short term you could be
cutting hay. In between the trees, you could have hedgerows. Than in
between the hedgerows, you're pasturing animals, goats, sheep, pigs on pasture.
(07:05):
Now, if you already have awooded lot, you can have the
pigs under the trees and goats underthe trees and cordon off certain areas on
contour to start doing your silver pasture. And so in the short term you
could be running chickens, goats,pigs, cattle even if if the land
is big enough, and then overtime move into the silver pasture. But
again you still have to have amarket. Taking your animals to the slaughter
(07:29):
yard is not going to get youtop dollar. So you got to have
a market. And what is thatmarket now and what is that market in
the future. I mentioned growing maplesyrup. That depends on having maple trees.
What about timber sales? So Iknow a lot of folks have either
acquired land through their family or havebought land that has timber on it that
(07:50):
could be viable timber. And onething you have to know in a temperate
climate about oak trees and about alot of these hardwood trees is there only
got to live fifty to sixty years. After fifty or sixty years, the
conditions have to be absolutely perfect forthat tree to keep growing. It's not
like a sequoia, you know,it's not like a big evergreen tree.
(08:11):
It will if there's erosion, itwill fall over. So again, if
you get a piece of land andyou can you can cut it temperate,
you now have an income source there. But think about this. Let's say
those trees are about ten to fifteenyears old. They're good oak trees,
but they're not that big. Youcan sell hunting licenses under those trees.
(08:33):
Think about that. A well managedland will have an abundance of wildlife turkey,
deer, bear, rabbit, multipleseasons which you can lease out a
license. What about growing gensing.I hear a lot of people talking about
growing gensing or other medicipal herbs,and so you could have a garden next
(08:54):
to your house that's selling this growingmedicipal herbs which you dry out for teas
or in a larger forestry area.You can grow gensing golden rod. There's
a lot of different types of goldenseal, there's a lot of different types
of herbs you can grow. Again, that has a different time frame in
which those things are available. Now, it's a big mistake to simply go
(09:15):
out and do these things and notfirst investigate this skills necessary, the time
investment, and then to put thesethings out on a timeline, because again,
we want to do what's good forthe property. We want to do
what's appropriate for the land so thatwe're not harming that land and we're certainly
not destroying the land in any way. Now, let's talk about stacking a
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function in modern chemical based agriculture.They're going to cut out all the trees,
they're going to bulldoze it, they'regoing to turn it into fields,
they're going to monocrop. If youwant a homestead that is sustainable, that
provides food for you year round,and ultimately has land that increases in value,
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we want to look at stacking functionin a polyculture. Now what does
that mean. It means that ifwe've got animals and perhaps they're installs and
they're manuing that we're taking that manure, composting it and then putting it into
a garden. If we've got agarden and it creates surplus biomass, we
take the surplus biomass and we feedit to chickens, or we feed it
to goats, or feed it tosome other type of animal. We're stacking
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function. Even in the forest itself. We're finding areas of the forest where
we can raise pigs under trees,and or we can raise goats in the
woods, or we can raise cattleand a silver pasture model again, because
we're getting multiple layers in that forest. For example, even you can have
layers of seven layers of the forestwhen it comes to the food. But
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ultimately we're conserving water, we're mulching, we're understanding our sun aspects and cycles,
and then we're building on that landthese cash flowing elements. Now,
some folks get upset I talk permacultureand capitalism in the same sentence. So
let me wrap up with that andwhy it's important that we're not talking about
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money so much as we're talking aboutenergy in and out. Now, capital
is a storage of means. Soif you've got a piece of land and
it has trees growing on it.Those trees are capital. If you've got
livestock, those livestock is capital.In fact, the whole economic system is
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based on livestock trade. And ifyou've converted livestock into money, you've also
got capital. All of these thingsneed to provide for your family. All
of these things need to be surplusand abundant in order to take care of
inflation, to stay up with risingcosts due to encroachment. A lot of
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you folks don't understand when you're goingin there and buying five acres. I
know you're dreaming of five acres,but I want you to have fifty or
five hundred, because that five acresis going to have a little towel next
to it before you know it.If you're deep into the country and you've
got a couple hundred acres, Iknow you're saying I can't afford it.
Again, I'm teaching you right nowhow to buy productive assets or how to
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make productive assets. And so whatwe're doing with the land is we're turning
it into a productive asset that providesfood as a dividend, provide safety as
a dividend, provide shelter as adividend, and it may provide capital as
well. Probably not in the firstcouple of years. Like I said,
even if you have a windfall becauseyou cut all the trees down, it's
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still there's money to put new treesback, and there's conservation activities, and
there's land management, and there's buildingthe house. It usually does not come
out profitable in the first couple ofyears. And that's okay because again we're
avoiding the mistake of spontaneity, andwe're developing a plan just like you'd manage
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a stock portfolio, just like you'dmanage career choices, just like this whole
decision to homestead. We're gonna sitdown with a piece of paper, and
a lot of times when we sitwith clients, they're very scared with this.
They don't they're there. They justrather just try it. And I
tell you it's more expensive to tryit than it is to have a plan
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and and and project your way intoit. But we sit down with clients,
they often say this has been thebest thing in their life. I
sat down with one client two hundredacres of land had she had a variety
of people living on the land,running different activities through farm leases that were
there before she got the land,and we sat down and looked at the
plan, and she realized how muchpower she had in owning this land because
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she was originally just got to sellit, and she inherit the land,
and ultimately she was just got tosell it off, and she realized that
this was where she wanted to be. All the memories, that's another dividend.
A lot of people ignore the memories, the family experiences, the community,
all all of these things. We'reinvesting in and these multiple forms of
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capital, and we're building that abundance. You know, that surplus of food
that you're able to create becomes storedcapital. It has a limited shelf life,
but can be traded with people inthe neighborhood. It can be passed
along into the community markets. Itcan be a blessing to people who are
in need or even just divided amongthe folks who work on your farm.
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The key to understand here, though, is that all of these things is
because we look at the land asa productive asset that we're going to care
for, that we're going to serve, that we're going to manage, and
that we're going to be good stewardsof and in that stewardship, we may
end up with timber grazing, smallgardens, market gardens, large gardens,
cut flowers, but we're going todo it in a systematic approach so that
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it's not overwhelming. One of thethings that I do for clients is we
help take the overwhelm out if itcomes down to not necessarily dollars and cents,
but if it comes down to thesedifferent profits that we're talking about,
where in that first year, itreally didn't cost you anything to move to
the farm because you still have incomecoming in, and in fact, you're
starting to lower your costs because you'reraising quality, healthy food for your family,
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because you're selling the surplus, orhave a partnership to sell the surplus,
or maybe you do like what whenI've talked about in other videos,
you partner with a local farm andyou didn't even have to buy land,
and you've started in the farming orinto the homesteading. There are so many
options that people overlook because again whenI start talking about make money from your
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land, they either see it onlyas cash the extraction of money, rather
than a symbiotic relationship with that land, where you provide for the land,
the land provides for you, andyou live in harmony for generations. Now,
if you like to start your homesteadand in the next twelve months or
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less be up and living in thisabundance that we're talking about, I can
show you. Now it's based onyour skills. So when we do a
consultation, I'm going to ask alot about your skill set, your knowledge.
We can build on your skills,we can build on your experiences and
create for yourself an opportunity where youhave that relaxing abundance that comes from knowing
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that you've got quality food, thatyou've got quality housing, that you're low
impact on the environment, that yourhigh value in the community, and the
interactions that you have. There's alot to be learned from the permaculture design.
And the great thing about it isthat we can design your paradise on
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paper. Now you've got your paradiseon paper. It might be the end
result that you're looking to go towards. It gives you that courage, it
gives you that vigor and that excitementto move towards that goal. And then
we can sit down and walk throughthe phases, the plans where do you
get started first? What do youdo next? And very often this is
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more valuable than the cost of yourland, because you might pay twelve twelve
thousand dollars an acre, twenty onethousand dollars an acre, two thousand dollars
an acre and get every penny ofit back in a lifetime of abundance and
a lifetime of food security, hedgesagainst inflation, investments that pay a lifetime
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of value, better experiences with yourfamily, many of the things that money
cannot buy yet still have the capitalnecessary, so use you're not negotiating with
the bank or having your farm takenaway from you in the future. I'm
just in hit with Prosperity Homestead,and I hope I've given you some ideas
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about how you can go from whereyou're at today to a homestead of abundance
and some of the characteristics of thatabundance and some of the means, because
the land itself has more value thanthe money and ultimately can produce for you
as you're a good steward for it. If you have any questions about what
we've covered today, please visit usat www dot Prosperity homestead dot org.
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And there's a lot of free giftsthere for you. There's a lot of
opportunities there for you. There's afree newsletter. If you go to the
contact page, you can ask yourquestions. We have podcasts which I hope
you will dig down into. Now. If somebody's referred this podcast to you,
I want you to give them abig thank you. I really appreciate
it when folks pass along these episodesand if there's an episode that you'd like
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me to cover. When it comesto homesteading or starting a small farm,
I actually work with a network ofprofessionals who are in the farming business and
in the helping business. I'll introduceyou to my mentors. I'll introduce you
to the folks that are helping meand the folks that I'm helping, and
maybe together as a community, wecan help you achieve your homesteading dreams in
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twelve months or less. Again,I want to thank you for listening.
If you have questions, visit usat www dot prosperity homestead dot org and
I am just in hit with ProsperityHomestead and I'll see you in the next podcast.
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