35 Ways to Make Money On A Small Homestead

Learning how to make an income from your small homestead is a great way to turn a passion for farming and self-sufficiency to a profitable business that can help make ends meet! Whether you have only an acre or two, or even just a backyard garden, here are some ways that you can earn from your land.

Earning From Your Garden & Homemade Goods

1. Sell surplus produce at your local farmer’s market
2. Preserve your fruits and vegetables via canning (jams, jellies, preserves) to sell.
3. Sell seeds.
4. Start seeds at home and sell seedlings in the spring.
5. Make and sell compost or fertilizer.
6. Sell fresh or dried herbs.
7. Sell herb salts for cooking.
8. Sell dehydrated fruit.
9. Sell fresh cut flowers in the form of bouquets.
10. Bake and sell fresh bread.
11. Bake and sell fresh muffins or cookies.
12. Sell maple syrup from your trees.
13. Sell firewood.

How to Make Money From Backyard Chickens (Or Other Poultry)

1. Sell fresh eggs.
2. Sell fertilized eggs for hatching.
3. Hatch and sell chicks.
4. Raise and sell chicken, duck, or turkey meat.
5. Sell laying hens.
6. Rent out poultry.

How to Make Money From Other Livestock & Farm Animals

1. Breed and sell rabbits.
2. Sell fiber. (Wool from sheep or rabbits.)
3. Sell your own yarn. (From fiber.)
4. Raise pigs for meat.
5. Beekeeping – sell the wax and honey.
6. Breed and sell dogs.
7. Raise goats for meat.
8. Raise sheep for meat and/or wool.
9. Tan and sell fur hides.

Earn From Arts & Crafts

1. Make and sell homemade soaps.
2. Make and sell homemade lip balm.
3. Sell sewn items. (Such as tote bags or hot mitts.)
4. Sell knitted or crocheted items.
5. Make and sell jewlery.
6. Create and sell pottery.
7. Build and sell birdhouses.

Where to Sell Your Goods

1. At your local farmer’s market(s).
2. Start a farmstand.
3. On your farm’s website. (If you plan to sell goods, this is a very important place to be able to advertise.)
4. For arts and crafts, you can start and Etsy shop.
5. Craigslist.

Do you have any other ideas of how to earn on a small homestead or farm? Share them in the comments below!