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Handmade goods are definitely a premium product that many shoppers love to buy. But what can you do to make YOUR handmade goods EXTRA special and unique, to help drive sales? How about being able to tell your customers that you're sending a piece of your farm to them? At Home To Roost Co, that's exactly what they do, selling handmade cutting boards made with timber right off their farm. It's definitely not the easiest way to make money off your farm, but it certainly is one of the most unique! You can read the companion article and learn more about how to make cutting boards and grow it to a business on our website -- visit findinggoodliving.com/podcast, and click on "cutting boards."

When Allison and her husband bought their hobby farm, they also absorbed a few passive income streams that already existed on the farm. Horse boarding was one of them, but it didn't take long for them to realize that this wasn't the right revenue stream for them. They made the shift to barn storage rentals as their main passive income stream as they transition to making their bigger farm dreams start to take shape. Learn more about why they stopped with horse boarding and HOW they're shifting to make their vision for their farm come to life. Read the companion blog post covering how to rent a barn for storage on our website. Visit the podcast page link and click on "Rentals" under the Homemade Money episodes category.

Katie & Jon from Tlush Family Farm joined us today to share some of the ins and outs of running a microgreens and gourmet mushroom business and doing it WITHOUT compromising family life -- super important with two little ones at home. Oh, did we mention that their entire farm is on a quarter acre? They may be one of the smallest farms we will ever interview, but they honestly bring some of the biggest tips about the not just tiniest crop but about business and life in general. Want to read more about how to grow microgreens? Visit the podcast page on our site -- findinggoodliving.com/podcast and click on the Microgreens tile.

Stop and consider this: you're a homesteader. You're self-sufficient. But ARE you? Who pays the feed bill for your farm animals...your day job? What would happen if you lost your job tomorrow? Come along on this thought train with us to discuss the idea of living a life of surviving versus using your homestead-turned-farm to build a TRULY self-sufficient life.

We had a pretty solid idea and an on-paper plan for what we wanted to do with our land well before we even finished buying it. But even still -- the mindset shift from homesteading to farmsteading (ie making money from your homestead) really requires you to re-evaluate some components and features of your land to decide IF you can make money from it and HOW you'll do that. A property that's ideal for homesteading may not be as conducive to "business use" as you'd initially think.

It's fairly easy to look at things critically and determine if homesteading is a good fit for your family -- look at things like income and available cash, desire to do the work, and whether it's compatible with the life you want to live (ie working for food vs world travelers, for example), etc. But what about the gray areas, the things no one really talks about? The things you can't concretely and quickly "solve" about this life? Things like feeling alone because no one you know "gets it," or reasoning out WHY you prefer the hard work of raising your food over simply hitting the grocery store. Who can you turn to? How can you overcome these hurdles? (You can read more about the more "black and white" homesteading considerations at http://findinggoodliving.com/is-homesteading-right-for-me/.)

Sometimes getting to your dreams is a straight line. Sometimes it's worse than the world's most twisty rollercoaster. We've been somewhere in the middle but towards the rollercoaster side of things. Between kids, cancer, and covid, it's been a strange path to get to where we are. But if we can make it through all the hurdles that keep flying at us, anyone can. We are living proof that having faith and pushing for your dreams is absolutely the magic combination to find good living in your every day. Because here we are, doing just that -- living on acreage, building our dream farm from the ground up, and seeing new pieces of our farm freedom dreams fall into place on an almost daily basis. In this episode, we're sharing a deeper dive into our story -- more than just "well, we were in the suburbs, and then we moved." That short of a story doesn't do any of it justice, and it doesn't help YOU get motivated to live your biggest and wildest dreams. Are you ready? Because those dreams are calling.

A quick introductory episode to give you a feel for what to expect from this show. Learn what we mean by "farm freedom," how we'll bring you value, and why we are passionate about this topic.