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A few people are making money from it, but they're content to make money. The majority of people doing homesteading are: 1. At-home farmers who are eating heal
by debacle 3y ago
A few people are making money from it, but they're content to make money. The majority of people doing homesteading are:
1. At-home farmers who are eating healthier, but paying for the privilege.
2. People who are quiet because they're actually making very good money doing what they're doing.
3. People who haven't quite grasped that permaculture and/or homesteading are still farming, and farming is still hard work despite how blog-friendly you make it.
4. People trying to sell their "next best thing" marketing to hopeful mommmy bloggers.
I am currently a #1 hoping to become a #2 eventually. Online, I predominantly follow #2s and they never try and sell me classes, PDFs, etc, because they're busy making money farming.
- hksh 3y agoCould you link to some of the #2s you follow?
- debacle 3y agoPeople making a living: https://www.youtube.com/@gregjudyregenerativerancher https://www.youtube.com/@gregjudyregenerativerancher https://www.youtube.com/@savvydirtfarmer https://www.youtube.com/@savvydirtfarmer https://www.youtube.com/@JustaFewAcresFarm https://www.youtube.com/@JustaFewAcresFarm https://www.youtube.com/@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL https://www.youtube.com/@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL https://www.youtube.com/@MikesBackyardNursery https://www.youtube.com/@MikesBackyardNursery https://www.youtube.com/@FraserValleyRoseFarm https://www.youtube.com/@FraserValleyRoseFarm https://www.youtube.com/@edibleacres https://www.youtube.com/@edibleacres https://www.youtube.com/@regenerativeagriculture https://www.youtube.com/@regenerativeagriculture Hobbyists, but doing it right: https://www.youtube.com/@Selfsufficientme https://www.youtube.com/@Selfsufficientme https://www.youtube.com/@simplifygardening https://www.youtube.com/@simplifygardening https://www.youtube.com/@GardenerScott https://www.youtube.com/@GardenerScott https://www.youtube.com/@RedToolHouse https://www.youtube.com/@RedToolHouse https://www.youtube.com/@MySelfReliance https://www.youtube.com/@MySelfReliance Some of these folks do sponsored content, usually widgets or toys or something, but they're pretty up front about it. A few of them I follow religiously, others I choose which videos I'd prefer to watch.
- beembeem 3y agoOh this is what you meant - making a living through permaculture. Can confirm that SelfSufficientMe strikes me as a great dude with engaging content.
- blisterpeanuts 3y agoAlso, Justin Rhodes and Joel Salatin youtube channels. Joel focuses on poultry, and Justin also raises pigs and cows. Both are heavily into permaculture. I only have a few backyard chickens, but I’m trying to apply their principles where I can. It’s scalable, luckily.
- ry4nolson 3y agoThe Gardening Channel With James Prigioni is another great channel. https://www.youtube.com/c/jamesprigioni https://www.youtube.com/c/jamesprigioni
- CapstanRoller 3y agoWhy is money the main goal? If you see everything through that lens, then of course permaculture seems incoherent. If money is a primary concern, why grow food at all? Just strip-mine your land instead, or simply engage in real-estate speculation and landlordism.
- vintermann 3y agoIf you buy actually valuable expensive input from the outside world for making food, you should sell actually valuable output to make it worth it. Otherwise it isn't sustainable. Sure, making money on things that aren't actually valuable is all too easy, but that would defeat the point. "Economy", formal and informal, seems to be a big and acknowledged part of permaculture culture.
- gafferongames 3y agoThe whole point of permaculture is to not require expensive inputs.
- CapstanRoller 3y agoIf "permaculture" meant "hobby farm", then you'd be correct. However, permaculture is centered around a radically different approach: maximally leveraging existing ecosystem features rather than trying to fight them, or trying to wipe the ecosystem clean and turn it into mere substrate for building something artificial. A correctly implemented permaculture "farm" should require minimal or no artificial inputs at all, instead relying on a composition of self-sustaining closed loops (e.g. food waste goes into compost and a worm bin, where the compost is used to grow more vegetables while the worms are used to supplement chickens foraging in the garden and eating pests like slugs)
- vintermann 3y agoEven if that, you need shovels. You need a lot of stuff that wears out, that you can't make yourself. You need to participate in an economy. Some of it can be with other permas, but much of it likely won't. It's always been like that. Farmers from the stone age on have used tools manufactured a long way away.