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RE: The $20k Homestead - Part 1 - Land, Money & Math
Love it! What an amazing gift from your family! Are the animals and garden included in your calculations or just the infrastructure? It's crazy how expensive those things can get
Just the infrastructure of the land, home & other property improvements to live there. Thank you so much for reading and commenting!
ah okay! I've been keeping a spreadsheet of all of our expenses just to see how much it ends up costing in the end. We homestead for the quality food but I want to be sure it ends up cost effective as well! It's a big experiment
For the food analysis:
I'm sure you are, but be sure to compare apples-to-apples. Judge your costs against their equivalent (local, organic, free range, etc). Also, don't take into account reusable costs in your price-per-unit figuring. Things such as coop, waterers, feeders, fencing, etc... things that will be used over and over. We can't hope to compete with the costs of our food vs. that of mass producers. Even though this will be the comparison everyone outside of the homestead bubble throw at you to justify their Wal-Mart chicken. 😒
I'd be interested to see/hear how your figures pan out when you have them. 😊
Yes! I will definitely be comparing it to organic although homegrown food is even better than organic in my opinion, just based the their farming practices. I don't expect to it to break even but our belts are tight and I'd love to see what we can do! I do plan on posting something at some point. I have to decide when would be good because it's obviously an ongoing expense sheet