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Old Fashioned On Purpose

S13 E13: How to *Actually* Make Money from a Small Farm

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

4.8 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 October 2023

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

It's every homesteader's dream to quit their job and become completely self-sufficient selling eggs & soap from their homestead. The bad news? It's almost impossible to make a full-time income from selling eggs & soap. The good news? It's entirely possible to make real money from your small farm-- you just need a strategy. In this episode, I'm joined by farmer and business coach Michael Kilpatrick to bust through the common misconceptions around making money from a farm so you ca...

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0:00.0

Hey friends, welcome back to the old fashion on purpose podcast.

0:04.4

Today we are diving into a topic I really love and it's also kind of one of my pet peeves

0:11.2

if you will.

0:12.2

You know, I think one of the biggest dreams that home stutters like you and I have is

0:17.1

that we want to get the homestead, we want to be self-sufficient and then the ultimate

0:22.5

is to be able to make an income from our homesteads, from the land or from the backyards

0:27.1

or wherever that may be.

0:28.6

However, I get a lot of people coming to me with the idea of, you know, I'm going to

0:34.0

be able to support my homestead and support my family by just selling our homestead

0:38.0

extras.

0:39.0

Maybe it's the eggs, maybe it's the soap, maybe it's a few jars of honey a year.

0:41.8

And while I totally think that's an admirable dream in reality, it doesn't really work as

0:49.3

smoothly as we might hope in that regard.

0:51.6

So I wanted to have someone join me today who does know how to make money from a small

0:56.5

farm.

0:57.5

He teaches people how to do this.

0:59.1

He's a consultant.

1:00.1

He's an educator, a farmer and an inventor.

1:01.7

He lives in Ohio.

1:03.0

Michael Kilpatrick, welcome to the podcast.

1:05.1

I can't wait for this conversation.

1:07.1

Absolutely.

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