r/Homesteading101

Hello folks! For the past few months it hasn’t been easy for me. I’m a small farmer. Farming has been the best thing for me for the last 2 years. I’ve been supplying farm produce to my local market but as I am doing my calculations, I realised I’ve been spending most of my profits in repairing my machines. At first they were working perfectly well but only after 3 months they started having small issues and they have not been operating well since. Since the whole point of a business is to maximize profit, I’ve decided to abandon all my old machines and purchase a new brand. I’ve been doing my research online and as I was scrolling Alibaba, I came across a few brands. They all look promising but this time I’m not purchasing anything blindly and based on adverts. I’m seeking your help and advice on which brand I should purchase before spending my savings and getting cooked again. I want a brand that will serve me without breaking after just serving for a few months. Any advice and recommendation will be appreciated, thanks.

Getting into making pretty much everything from scratch. Probably need to get a juicer for vegetables. The bolthouse farms stuff is almost all sugar.

Like an agrarian soda.

Doing stuff by hand really isn't that much work. Plus it feels kind of liberating and probably better for the environment. And a great way to build muscles naturally.

Hello. I'm disabled mentally and physically and looking to find myself, a community where I belong, and my soul family. I'm trying to create a little slice of heaven for myself and am looking into homesteading as a possible route for the future with my found soul family. I'm as*xual so i don't plan on finding my soul family or my possible future homesteading lifestyle the traditional way, i.e. through dating, marriage, or doing everything myself with said traditional family. My only living immediate relatives are my aunts (sisters) and my brother all of which are disabled either mentally or because of old age. I have an "adopted dad" who's in a wheelchair and two "adopted sisters" one of which is also disabled. I also have a godson. Now I know my ideas/dreams are far fetched, out there, idealist and visionary and a little crazy but most dreams are I suppose and I believe in magic and fairytales and happily ever afters personally. This is the general idea for my Aspiring Homesteading future. My dream is that I'll either win the lottery and buy land in another country with safer and freer politics and rights and hire assistance to do all the homesteading for me as I'm disabled and can't do it all myself if any. Or else the world will find peace and defeat the f*r r*ght p*litics in the world eventually to where I won't have to move and the opportunity and networking and assistance will somehow present itself the more I put myself out there in the community like this reddit community and local neighbors and such etc. Or maybe someone will create a land or country I can be apart of someday and join with my soul family. In any case, I'll need to surround myself with knowledge and start planning and start networking so I can find the appropriate people to help bring my dream to life as I know it will take a village to make come true. I personally believe that where there's a will there's a way and that if I build it they will come. In other words if I start the journey I'll find what's meant to be for me, my soul family, and my dream. Thus why I joined this reddit community and others. To begin the journey, to network, build the basic skills, start planning, to put myself out there and see where it leads me. Because history is being made for better or for worse and things are changing in the world and I want to explore my options and see what's out there. But first I need to know about other countries and there politics and what kind of off grid niche lifestyle I want as there's a lot of options out there. I've looked into tiny houses to boat life to cob houses to life in Canada and in England to life in the woods etc. all I know is that I'm scared of the forests and bumps in the night and what could be out there and I know I want sustainability and a local community close by where they have shops and events we can enjoy. So if anyone has any ideas towards those topics in particular and can let me know what other requirements I'll need for the journey that'd help my Aspiring dreams and planning a lot.

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let me know if there is any flaws in this design (besides money).

Hey everyone, apologies if this is a bit long. I’m currently a 21yo male with a dream of moving out of the city I was raised in. I am one year out of graduating college, and would like to move somewhere away asap and still be able to commute to the city for work. My question is, how in the world do y’all afford to start and pay the upfront costs of home ownership or even building a home? I don’t have too much money saved up (although currently saving from a summer internship), and luckily will be having no student debt. I’m with a girl that I intend to marry who has the same dreams of living away from the city, so at least we will have a double income coming soon. I just want to hear your stories, and maybe get some advice on how to make this more affordable because right now I’m looking at a lot of money in the state I live in (Michigan) for just a few acres. Any advice would be appreciated, thank you!

hello. we are a married couple, 29m and 25f, with a young son (2). We are searching for an off grid homestead within the EU, preferably Croatia.

We would like to find a like minded couple to communicate with and potentially join forces. we would split the cost among us.

You would need to bring at least 15 thousand euros to the table.

Our vision is to be a goat and sheep ranch, likely practicing transhumance/ semi nomadic lifestyle in one of the Mediterranean regions (Dalmatia, Greece, Spain etc).

If you’re vegetarian we respect that but do not expect us to abide by your practice. Same goes for religion, if you’re of one of the Abrahamic sects, do not seek to enforce such beliefs. We are pagan.

The primary goal is healthy food, low cost of living, freedom and active life. Through cooperation we could achieve immense things as combined families.