Kody Hanner
Over 100 homestead business ideas to help build a self-sufficient homestead either full-time or in your spare time.
Making money on your homestead allows you to become more self-sufficient, afford homestead improvements, and maybe even be able to work exclusively from home.
Below, you will find an extensive list of over 100 homestead business ideas that will hopefully get your juices flowing. The key to a successful homestead business, though, is to find a product or niche that has a place in the market. What is the market you ask? The market can be your local market, a storefront market, or even an online market (as long as your product can be legally sold online). This means if there are 10 other goat milk makers in your neighborhood, you might be in a flooded market. But if there is a large ethnic population in your area and no one is raising goat or lamb locally, that might be a great market. Do your research, and something unique that people need could be a gold mine!
Animal Business Ideas
- Sell wool from sheep or alpacas
- Sell live chicks, poults, hens, and other poultry
- Sell hatching eggs
- Sell worms or worm compost
- Horse motel or boarding
- Dog boarding
- Petting zoo
- Goat Yoga
- Animal therapy
- Sell meal worms for chickens
- Cricket farm
- Breed 4-H show animals
Plant Business Ideas
- Sell flowers (fresh or dried)
- Sell microgreens
- Sell herbs (seedling, fresh, dried)
- Sell hay or straw
- Save seeds and sell them
- Sell hand-crafted plant markers
- Grow landscaping plants
- Sell Christmas Trees
- Sell trees or saplings
- Be a plant or seed wholesaler
Food Business Ideas
- Sell homemade bread or baked goods
- Sell homemade jams, jellies
- Sell grass-fed beef
- Sell grass-fed lamb
- Sell pastured pork
- Sell rabbit meat
- Sell maple syrup
- Sell fruits and vegetables
- Sell homemade fruit or vegetable purees
- Raise and sell tilapia (their feces makes great fertilizer too)
- Sell mushrooms
- Sell honey and/or beeswax products
- Make your own tea blends
- Make homemade cider
- Make homemade sodas
- Smoke jerky and sausages
- Dried spice blends
- Pickled vegetables
- Sell farm-fresh eggs
- Raise and sell broiler chickens
- Sell raw milk
- Sell cheese or other dairy products
Crafting Business Ideas
- Homemade soap and other personal care items
- Sewn, crocheted, or knitted items
- Herbal remedies or tinctures
- Homemade Potpourri
- Candle making class
- Handmade Jewelry
- Handmade pottery
- Build birdhouses
- Build bird feeders
- Build beehives
- Build chicken tractors
- Craft cutting boards
- Sell spun yarn
Homestead Service Business Ideas
- Rent out your land for photography
- Guided tours of your homestead
- Rent out your barn for events
- Sell cut firewood
- Offer homestead classes or workshops
- AirBNB Rental
- U-Pick flowers, berries, fruits
- Rent butcher equipment
- Barnyard movie nights
- Homeschool co-op field trips
- Food prep classes
- Foraging tours
- Cater farm to table meals
- Homestead camping/work experience
- Mentorship program
- Sell manure/fertilizer
- Sell leather products
- Sell compost/soil
- Snowshoe Hike
- Build tomato cages
- Pumpkin patch/corn maze
- Horse riding lessons
- Tilling, disking
- Farm to table cooking classes
Planning your homestead business
I always suggest that anyone trying to make money off of their homestead should have multiple streams of income. I also suggest that if you can, sell multiple stages of any product. Such as selling seedlings, fresh herbs, dried herbs, and herb seeds.
Get support with your homestead business ideas
Starting a business can be overwhelming and a lot of work. To take that edge off, I have created a Homestead Business Membership. This membership provides new courses every week, monthly live zoom calls, a community of homestead business entrepreneurs, and lots of resources!
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