Homesteading Considerations & Advice

buying land some thoughts on building your home uh and just all around what a lot of the costs are associated with farming and chickens are pretty low cost First we'll start with what do you want to do so what do you want to do with your farm do you want to have a place for your kids to grow up outside and play football in the yard or do you have NFL Sunday Ticket and you just want to sit in the couch on Sunday and watch TV cuz if you do I don't know you might want to consider a another option because you're not going to be sitting on the couch on Sunday watching football games all day I can tell you that not if you got 100 acres what you need to consider is number one what do I want to do do I want to grow veggies for the family do I want to have some horses do I want to have goats pigs cows what do I want to do do I want to hunt do I want hunting property what kind of Homestead do I want to have do I want to have a few backyard chickens a little garden go to work come home Play In the Garden on the weekends what do you want to do okay so things to consider when you're looking at land you need to think about water water water water water I cannot say it enough water whether your land is very hilly whether you have Creeks whether you have ponds how many Creeks do you have what are your sources of water drilling a well well you have a rural property you're going to have to drill a well you need to be thinking about hey where am I going to put my well is it in close proximity to my barn is it in close proximity to my house you got to plan this stuff out because if you don't it's going to add additional expense later on in your uh Farmstead so we're farmsteading here homesteading and we're basically trying to be self-sufficient we're having our garden so we can have all of our vegetables and do a lot of canning this year we've raised animals so that we can eat them or that they can uh help to revitalize the land and we've got our chickens for our eggs we just want to have a nice place to go home to that's very private when we set out to buy land we set out to buy 10 to 40 acres that's what our plan was now we've got 1 15 acres and we're looking at more land once you get up in the country the tendency is to want as much privacy as you possibly can so think privacy think noise what kind of noises do you hear go we looked at so many different places we went and sat and just waited in silence to hear the noises at different times of day so we sat from like 3:00…