The 9 Best States To Start A Homestead
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- čas přidán 22. 05. 2024
- Hello everyone!
In todays' video we're talking about the top 9 states that are great for prospective homesteaders. A few years ago my wife and I found ourselves faced with the great but overwhelming decision of where to move, given a nation-wide choice. This video breaks down why you may want to look at certain states in particular, depending on what's important to you and your family.
I hope this helps.
Happy homesteading!
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Timestamps:
0:00: 9 States Begging for Homesteaders
0:21: The Average Homesteader
1:13: Getting Good Deals on Land - West Virginia
1:53: Homeschooling - Idaho
3:04: Income Tax - Texas
3:55: Local Food - North Carolina
4:41: Bigger Enterprises - Montana
5:29: Making Money - Tennessee
6:49: The Great Outdoors - Michigan
7:34: Small Farm Capital - Vermont
8:45: Adventure - Alaska
9:21: The Important Things
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Hi! I’m PJ, and my family loves the homesteading life! It’s something my wife and I have always wanted to do, but we grew up with ZERO HOMESTEADING EXPERIENCE!!!!! We grew up in beautiful southern California, 15 minutes away from the beach. As amazing as that was, we both dreamed of a life closer to land and animals. After getting married and moving to Utah, our family slowly grew. We had become a family of four living in a townhome with a small backyard filled with potted plants.
In 2019 we dipped our feet into homesteading on 1 ¼ acre lot in Utah. In 18 months we were ready to do this for real. So in 2021 we packed everything up and moved to North Carolina to 12 acres and we love every inch of our homestead!
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I do not talk to my chickens like a crazy person. I talk to my quail like a crazy man.🙃😂
My sister moved to Tennessee and she's running into a lot of issues with being able to sell things from her property. She says thr Mennonite communities have it completely locked down (at least her area in NE Tennessee). You can't sell ANYTHING without a special permit, license, or certification. It would cost more than they could make. Though there IS a good homesteading community and they've made a lot of great friends.
I live in SE Iowa, but have the opposite problem. I can sell just about anything I want and only need a license to sell dairy or baked goods (both very easy to get and very cheap). I can sell just about anything [including canned goods, live plants, and up to 999 chickens live or butchered] without a special license or certification.
HOWEVER, people out here don't seem to care much for quality. I offer farm-fresh, free range, pasture chicken eggs for $2/doz and can't sell them. Why? Dollar General and Walmart sell eggs for $1.30/doz. They don't care about quality. There is also not a very big homesteading community here. I'm surrounded by big farmers who farm thousands of acres and almost none of them have a family garden or even know how to grow a garden. It's all just big monocrop on tractors.
I resonate with your comment. In the Missouri Ozarks there are a lot of homesteaders, but it still seems like people don’t care as much for quality by and large. And don’t get me started on the nearby Mennonites. 🙄
So, how are the Mennonites paying for their permits and such? Are they doing such high volume that they can afford it and still make a profit to use that money to support their families, too?
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Yes, they are. Also, I believe they get some kind of special exceptions or allowances because of religion or whatever. I'll have to ask her again, but they make a LOT of profit. They -as a statewide collective- can easily buy legislatives.
@@BaughbeSauce Yes, they are usually wealthy from what I'm told, and it would be incorrect to assume that they live humble, wholesome lives when it comes to food production. At least around here they are in cahoots with commercial agriculture more than almost anyone. They built a commercial poultry barn right next to my property. I'm certainly not happy about it since this was supposed to be my serene little homestead. And they just keep building these poultry barns on every piece of land that they buy around here. Good luck trying to change legislation to keep the barns away, because somehow commercial agriculture gets a free pass on almost everything in Missouri.
Hello, fellow Iowan!👋 Central Iowa here. Doing my best to homestead in town with 2/3 acre.
Texas has water problems. We started out there, but it was a real struggle. Indiana is a good place to farm and raise kids, but we wanted a longer growing season and milder winters for our older years, so Arkansas is our “just right”.
Michigan homestead here. Really enjoying it, even the winter is enjoyable.
You are so funny! I like the mix of good solid info you provide with your sense of humor. Keeps me watching and learning.
Thanks for the kind words!
Perhaps an interesting thing to investigate is homesteading for retirees. There are a lot of boomers that might be interested and we have our own unique issues and limitations.
Amazing idea. Writing it down to the board where I keep all the ideas for future videos.
I started homesteading when we lived in northern Maine. Winters were long, cold, and dark. But land was cheap. My off farm job, brought me here to GA. The weather is perfect for homesteading here. But I do miss Maine.
Homeschool children have always been -- as a whole -- BETTER socialized than public schooled children. Unfortunately, that misconception about lack of socialization, which was common when I was homeschooling my children forty years ago, still seems to exist. There are exceptions, due to the variety of different kinds of families, but as a whole, they really are better socialized. If you think about it, you, like myself and many others, will find that you can often tell which children are homeschooled without asking, because the homeschooled children are almost always more comfortable talking and interacting with adults than public schooled children (or any child who attends an age-segregated classroom school). They are, in fact, usually more comfortable interacting with all ages of people. Children raised in age-segregated classrooms are usually uncomfortable interacting with any age group outside of their grade level, and may interact in inappropriate ways.
NH also has no state income tax and high property taxes, but the added benefit of having a winter for pest control, plus no drought issues.
So I lived in Idaho for around 12 years, in southeast Idaho, we did a homestead there and we had to bring in a lot of soil for gardening because the soil there is so full of rock, especially lava rock. So for those considering Idaho that is something to think about. Plus they don't get a lot of rain! So it's dry, dusty, windy and with all that brings the chemicals used for the potato fields (they are everywhere). There is a lot of crop dusting and it just spreads all over. It gets on your property, it's in the air, gets in the irrigation canals which means the water too. It's not all bad, the homeschooling is great, the people are wonderful and it is relatively safe. But on that note I should mention the state is growing fast, which is rising the costs of everything, it's bringing in more crime the traffic can get backed up (not big city like). But as always there are pros and cons, do research and make the best decision for your family and you! We are doing that currently I and have decided to move from Idaho to Missouri. So it's all personal preference.
Thanks for adding your perspective. It helps.
I've heard about the potato spraying. That really sucks. I've heard details on the specific needs from McDonalds potatoes, and the amount of pesticides used to produce their long, stringy, fires is insane! I imagine many of them come from Idaho.
Good luck in Missouri!
That was a fun video! I like your comparisons of data and you pulled from a wide spectrum of interests. Key point seems to be that homesteading is not about earning an income. 🤷🏻♀️ I’m a fan of believing we ALL need to be doing a bit of survival homesteading on out properties with some crops and small livestock. Good luck to you! (I found your music background to be unnecessary- you’ve got the voice and stage presence to hold your own 👍🏻).
Thanks for the kind words. I think a lot of people confuse homesteading with small farming. One has the intent to provide for your family, the other is to make a profit.
I agree; the music is a distraction.
I would love to have fiber optic. I work from home as a web developer. My 10mbps works fine most of the time. lol. Love the humor and great advice in this video.
You might want to check out Tennessee. In addition to low property taxes and no state income tax, parts of the state have amazing internet. In our area of southeast TN, we opted for 2.5 gigs but it is feasible for residential customers to get as much as 25 gigs. My husband has a remote job in tech and it has been great.
@@LinusMarais I greatly appreciate the advice! I wouldn't mind living in Tennessee for sure. I'm mainly hesitant due to the fact that I found a really good deal in 2015 on a nice place here in Missouri. I can't find anything close with today's real estate prices.
Thanks my family and i homestead in hawaii. Pros and cons.
Where I live in Iowa, it costs $12,000-$16,000 per acre.
Thanks PJ for sharing. Quite interesting.
Everyone tells me I'm crazy when I say I want to try and homestead in Colorado 😅
Me too! Land here certainly isn’t cheap, and weather is unpredictable but I still want to make it work!
You could do it! You'd need more land, but sturdy ruminants could make it work!
Anyone else notice that both North and South Carolina are spelled wrong on the map?
I do now! Crazy how much goes into the editing process, and yet stuff like that slips through. Thanks for being cool about it 😉
@@homesteadingwithPJ I do a bit of proofreading as part of my job so things like that catch my eye. Very good video overall, we’re considering Michigan because I have family there and land is around $2k an acre cheaper than where we are now.
The reason these homesteaders have a college degree is because they were convinced they needed it. I wonder home many have figured out they wasted their money.
New England is 6 states, not 5. Of those 6 states Maine has the lowest land prices as well as the lowest property tax rates and a lot of small farms and farmer's markets.
thoughts on Minnesota?
Minnesota is beautiful! If you already live there I'd hunker down, there's really no need to uproot your entire life because so many types of homesteading can be done where you are. On the other hand, if you've done the research and want to give Minnesota a try go for it! That's what we did with North Carolina. Just do the research and figure out what works best for you! Good luck on your journey!
How Tennessee is 9th fastest growing I though it was 10th as Tennessee the only 10 I see 😂
Silly me had to read this twice to get it. But once I got it, I actually laughed out loud!
What about Georgia mountains?
I lived in Georgia years ago, and I can say "yes!" Georgia would be a great place to settle down.
Bro Florida though!
I lived in Florida for a couple of years. There's a lot of people homesteading there too.
Where in NC did y’all end up?
Orange County, near Chapel Hill.
Thanks for the video. Very interesting & helpful. Do you have any relatives inUtah with a You Tube channel?
Oh thank you! My dad has a CZcams channel in Utah, but it's not about homesteading. It's about him building and driving his Shelby Cobra.
Missouri land is cheaper than West Virginia.
Well, I'm excluded!
You should consider incorporating more Canadian aspects into your videos.
Also, Romania and New Zealand. And Uruguay.
I get that a lot. I've never lived there though, so I feel a little like an imposter talking about it. Even though I have lots of family in Alberta, (near Calgary) I've never even visited. Maybe one day!
@@homesteadingwithPJ I appreciate your honesty, although I think you should take the plunge and consider incorporating Canada in some topics you feel more comfortable about with the disclaimer you have never lived there. Clearly, you are quite knowledgeable. One caveat, Canada has a very diversified climate although some regions are similar to the U.S. (e.g., Maritimes and Maine, Alberta foothills and Montana, Prairies in Canada and U.S., etc.)
@@nicholasbaker8158 Thank you for the feedback. I'm sure one day I've cover more topics about the great white north!
Homesteading doesn’t exist sorry.
Please elaborate.