Here Are Few Common Mistakes Homesteaders Make

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Starting too big is a common mistake.

One example is starting a huge garden only to let everything get overgrown with weeds because you couldn’t keep up with the massive project. Another example is getting too many animals initially. It gets overwhelming quickly if you have to get up 3 hours earlier each morning before getting ready for work to feed and water the animals and milk the cow. That can get old quick!

What many people forget is that our homesteading ancestors worked day and night to gather enough
food for their families. They didn’t have the luxury of buying food at the grocery store. They had to store enough food for the entire family or starve to death.

It’s a big job having a homestead and requires many hours to maintain. Many newbie homesteaders bite off more than they can chew. They may not consider that they still have a 9-to-5 job. After a long day of work, driving home, and making dinner for the family, they just might not feel like going out and weeding the garden or milking the cow.

So, start small. If you decide to grow a garden, make it a small garden, and keep it maintained. You’ll harvest more crops from a well-maintained garden. Then the next year you can make the garden a little bit bigger. Doing things this way will give you more success and pride in what you’ve accomplished. Eventually, you’ll be an old pro that other people will come to for advice. But if you try to do too many things at once, it soon gets overwhelming, and you won’t want to do anything. That’s when things go downhill fast.

Below Are Some More Mistakes New Land Buyers Make

Buying a cheap property that was once a large farm that has been divided into tiny lots. Some buyers don’t realize that another person could buy a lot next to theirs and place hunting cabins or other items that might ruin the worth of your well-maintained homestead.
Buying a wooded property without thinking through how difficult it will be to clear enough land for a road, utilities, or even a garden spot.
Buying land without looking at it first because of the fear of losing the property. They could then discover that the land has no place for a home and that it’s on the side of a cliff.
Buying land that is close to a river or stream that has plenty of land for growing a commercial crop but floods too much to build a homestead on it.
Buying a beautiful piece of land with cliffs, then realizing there’s no place to put in a home or getting utilities on the property.
Buying any land that’s not developed is risky if you don’t know that the dry creek bed next to the home can and will get flooded during long periods of rain. This could flood everything in your homestead.
Buying land in the middle of a forest when during each hunting season, the house is surrounded by out-of-town newbie hunters shooting around your homestead.

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