Ways we save Money on Our Homestead

My biggest money savings tip is good morning modernsteaders

This morning we're doing a video collaboration with a lot of other homesteading channels

I'm gonna leave a link down below to all their channels and their videos

The video series is how we save money on our homesteads. Our tips are not quick saving money tips

Our tips are more long-term thinking and how to invest in your homestead to save money in the long term

That's what we're doing right now at Lone Acres. The big one we're working on is we have a three-day pig harvesting class going on

We know how to grow our own pigs and then we'll be investing and learning how to harvest

our own pigs here at the homestead. We'll be learning how to make bacon, ham, pepperonies, chakouteries, meat sticks, smoking

Think of all the money you can save over the years of investing a little bit of money up front

to learn these skills and how much money you'll be. be saving in the long run. If you want to see videos in the upcoming class, now is a great

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talk about some ways we save money right off the bat. We're a huge DIY channel. We're building

our modern homestead here at Lumna Acres and we've built so much just this summer and it's been

awesome. One of the first big projects that we've built lately is the

this $30 chicken coop you can build in 30 minutes. It's right. You can build this chicken

coop for 30 bucks. I'll put a link to the video here and I'll put a link to the blog post

that shows where you can buy all the products you need to build the chicken coop for $30

We have a 6 foot by 6 foot chicken coop here that we can raise 24 meatbirds. So raising our

own pasture raise organic fed, health is meat we can raise for our family. It's a huge money

savings for us. If we were to go to the farmer's market or to a store to buy a

pasture raised chicken we be spending over a bird We can raise 25 meat birds in that chicken tractor That worth of chicken we can raise That a huge money savings Over the life of the chicken coop you can save thousands of dollars if not tens of thousands of dollars

That chicken coop's going to last a long time. It's made out of pressure-treated lumber

We're raising our own pasture-raised pigs. The amount of money we're saving by raising our own pigs is huge

store to buy pasture raised pork or the farmer's market, it's very expensive. So by raising our own

we're saving big bucks. And now we're investing in our future by having Hanhewn farm come out here

and teaching us some great skills that have been lost. We'll be able to preserve our own meat

for years and years to come. That's going to be a huge money saver in the long haul

We built ourselves at Outdoor Kitchen. There's a few. ways this is gonna save us money but while we were building it we used recycled

materials as much as we could and we did it all ourselves all the glass are glass

doors that we're gonna get thrown away we got an old antique wood cookstove in here for

heating we were able to upcycle a stainless steel mop sink we had to purchase some

stainless steel tables but they were very inexpensive and they're gonna last a

lifetime and the amount of food we're gonna be able to produce and harvest and

and can and put up out in this kitchen, it's gonna be a huge money saver

We saved some trusses from the dump, believe it or not, they were going for the landfill

to get thrown away. I'll put a link to the playlist right here for our off-grid outdoor kitchen build

I told you the little bit amount of money we have into our off-grid outdoor kitchen

You wouldn't believe me, so I'm not gonna tell you. We have a concrete slab

We poured the concrete slab ourselves. We had to fill this all in

We filled it all in. With gravel, raised it up. We got a nice location

We've invested a lot of our time and energy this season into the outdoor kitchen and getting

ready for a pig harvesting class. Now this is going to sound kind of like a strange money saving tip but a piece of equipment like a tractor or something if you can afford one it is an investment in your future Now when I say afford one I not saying going to get payments for it If you can afford it if you can buy one used if you can rent one whatever you need

We've had our tractor here for five or six years now, and it's paid for itself over and over again

All the work we've done with it here and at our other location, it's paid for itself

We've put in a driveway here. We've repaired the road. We've filled this spot right here with it

three dumb truck loads, believe it or not. We've built gardens with it. We've done so much

with it that if you can look at a lot of things as investments into your future and you can afford

them, then they're a great money saving. It's like gets me back on the point of tools. Tools are

an investment like a tract is a tool, but they'll save you money in the long run and learn how to use

them and learn the skills you need for using them and working with them. We built the house at our

homestead here and that was a huge money saver for us having the skills that we learned over years and

years and having the tools we didn't just go out and buy the tools overnight the other houses we've

lived in every time we needed to do a project I'd buy a tool put it away when we went to build our

house we had all the tools we needed in the knowledge in the knowledge that we didn't have we were

able to pick up and learn when you're building your homestead it's not an overnight thing it's stuff

that takes time let's go inside the house now and I'll show you some more money saving tips we make our own fermenting tops for fermenting foods with

airlocks and some grommets this way we don't have to go out and buy the expensive

fermentating kits it's huge money saver right there you want to learn more about making

those i'll put a link right here and then the description down below on a video we did

with those when we need doors for our house we learn how to make them that's a huge

money saving tips so this is some rough saw and lumber that we got we planed it down

a little bit, kept the roughs-on look to it, but kept it smooth so we can clean it also

bought an inexpensive sliding track on Amazon. Now we have a nice rustic looking door

Now we have very little money invested into Another great money savings tip is when you look at items learn to value add and learn to look at it in different lights and see other ways you can use them instead of their original attended purpose

Let me explain a little bit. Right here is concrete. People are like, that's for making floors and burying posts in the ground. That's a countertop. That countertop cost $150 worth of concrete. You could under it. If that was great

You'd be spending thousands of dollars. The island itself we also made

We found some corbels on sale half off. So those were the inspiration for the island

And we had the wood, we already had it, believe it or not

All this wood is left over flooring that we had. We just milled it down and made it look different, painted it, and antiqued it, and gave it

a nice rustic look. When we were all set and done with the kitchen island

it's six feet by six feet, we had $300 invested in it

including the countertop. If you're building your own homestead, keep an eye out for building material auctions

We bought a lot of materials to build our house at one of those, and we saved a ton of money

My biggest money savings tip is, invest in yourself in the skills you're going to need

in your homestead, whether you already have your homestead or even more if you plan on moving to a homestead

Invest the time and the money now to learn the skills that you've got to need to live the lifestyle you want

They'll pay for themselves in the long run over and over and over again

Those are some of the ways we save money here at Lumna Acres. There will be links in the description down below for all the other videos on how to save money on your homestead

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