The 9 Best States To Start A Homestead

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.

Michigan homestead here. Really enjoying it, even the winter is enjoyable.

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.

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”.

You are so funny! I like the mix of good solid info you provide with your sense of humor. Keeps me watching and learning.

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.

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.

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 👍🏻).

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.

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.

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 PJ for sharing. Quite interesting.

Thanks my family and i homestead in hawaii. Pros and cons.

Where I live in Iowa, it costs $12,000-$16,000 per acre.

Anyone else notice that both North and South Carolina are spelled wrong on the map?

Everyone tells me I'm crazy when I say I want to try and homestead in Colorado 😅

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.

thoughts on Minnesota?

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.