How to Start Homesteading (Even With No Experience)

Step one: stop waiting until you know enough. You’ll never know enough. I sure don’t.

Here’s the actual order I’d do it in:

1. Pick your patch. Could be a backyard, could be 10 acres. Ours is a piece of land in Michigan. No house yet. That’s fine.
2. Water first. Nothing lives without it. We’re pricing a well right now, that’s our biggest unknown cost and I’m going to tell you exactly what it runs.
3. Shelter for you, then for animals. People first, chickens second.
4. One food project. Garden, chickens, bees: pick ONE. We picked the garden.
5. Write down every dollar. If you can’t tell me what your eggs cost you, you’re not homesteading, you’re hobbying.

That’s it. Everything else is details you’ll figure out as you go. I’ll be figuring them out right next to you.