How Much does it Cost to run Our Small Farm? 

Dude my mother wants me to be a successful doctor xD and I’m like Nope farm it is

Its an enjoyable experience and for all the Accountants here trying to point out the missing cost elements, I'm an Accountant myself and to me the benefits far exceed the perceived costs. One cannot take money to the grave. They are having an awesome time together as a family, living a life the way humans should!

I never realized how cheep it was to raise goats. I’m gonna get my own plot of land and have a few goats now 😂

I'm 14 and I'm looking to be a successful farmer

I love the idea of homesteading but the one thing I'd find difficult is butchering the animals. Whether I planned it or not, I'd grow attached to them.

Just found your channel and subscribed. We live in Oklahoma and are hoping to find a place with some land soon.

Excellent video! I'm starting a farm in Somalia.

Try to grow more leafy greens. Shade cloth is a must in your climate. I use 50% and was growing lettuce in Vegas all summer long. Leafy greens sell very well. You could off set your costs. All the best

Most days, I really enjoy your videos because you've done for your family what I hope to do for mine. Today's video is especially encouraging. I've always worried about the end cost. It's also nice to hear you talk about the gardening part, I've struggled with failed gardens a couple times, but feel encouraged to try again :) Thank you!

U guys really inspired me for when I’m older and own a farm I’m so excited

I think in the long run it'll all pay for itself as per anything. But the benefits you and your family get is probably worth it. Love to live like this. I just grow veg. Love your vlogs btw from Western Australia 😍

Raised beds and water can give a lot...heritage seed can be saved. It is so easy to grow potatoes...100 lbs from a 5x10 foot bed! You will need about 200 feet of beds. Been there done that. Remember taxes and insurance and meds.

thank u . this vlog was very informative and I enjoyed it.

Thank you so much for this video very informative!! And love what you guys are doing what a beautiful life!!! Cant wait to start ours the exact same way.

I appreciate you answering all the questions I have in my head as I watch your videos, thank you! I hope to find one where you show what you make all your goat milk into food wise and if you have to like, cook it or something before drinking. I decided this morning I didn't want to hear about caronavirus and such, and watching your videos all day has been a very positive experience, thank you so much for sharing your adventures! Reminds me growing up on small farms. I admire your life! Wish I were healthy enough to have my own farm..

i love watching you guys! love how you guys have a little farm i so want my own little farm.

I really enjoyed this video! You've inspired me to really put the pencil to my own Farm. I know it's worth it but I'm going to find out the exact amount. Thanks!

I've learned a lot. Thanks for sharing info.👍

I’m 10 and I already have sheep and about to get chickens! And I’m the farmer along with my dad I’m hoping to grow fruit and vegetables to Oh boi just wait till I’m out in the Aussie heat ;-;

Just as a comparison, I feed my chicks starter feed for 2 weeks then fine cracked corn mixed with dry distillers grain from the local ethanol plant for the next 4-5 weeks. (27 Cornish cross) Cost of chicks= $2 ea. feed cost= $40.50, total= $3.50 per chicken.

This was one video I have been wanting to see!!! THANK YOU! I want to dive in and I think we will start with a garden and 2-3 hens. I would love to do what your family has done. I am so eager to learn. I am seriously watching video after video. Again thank you!

The Three sisters, Corn, Beans, and Squash, Plant them the way Abenaki Native American did. The Corn povide's the pole for the Beans to grow on and the Squash covers the grown helping to keep it damp and weed down. That the way I learned to plant.

Wow! Love this video....just came accross your channel, I am so inspired by your farm!

Love seeing the chicken standing on the bricks, works Everytime and it really cools them down 👍

I live in Indiana and I planted a garden my first year, years ago and had such a HIGH tomatoe and cucumber yield I made pickles and salsa for my entire family and they were begging for more. It’s certainly easier to grow where we have a lot of water and I felt really thankful for that when you talked about being in Arizona! I’m sure there are things I couldn’t grow as easy here that need your climate and it’s awesome to see the different things our own land can grow us.

thanks this has been one of your most informative videos :)

Funny to find your blog. We just moved away from AZ

Biggest advantage is your health. You look fresh , healthy and beautiful.

Thanks for the info! Trying to start to refurbish our old family farm. This is a big help.

This was super helpful! Thanks!

I love farm life 😚 thats what I love to live like urs..!!

Thanks for all your great videos! We are butchering some roosters and a few hens, and your info was reassuring. Wishing you well on the homestead!! Great job!!

I really appreciate how you share the tough part of things as well

I live in Phoenix and my dream is to have a farm one day!!!!!!

This is a great video keep on going

That was really great video it answer a lot of my questions and gave me extra information about farming thank you very much

Great info, and Wow, you have a really good camera!

I used to raise rabbits in AZ. We utilized a drip hose rrigation system that we ran over our rabbit cages roofs and collected the water to irragate the garden. Never had a problem keeping the rabbits cool enough in the summer

I truthly love your show, rs

Now knowing about what your costs are, I would be interested in knowing what you spend on groceries for those things you can't or don't produce, and roughly what you didn't have to spend as a result of what you have produced. I am quite interested in starting up a homestead, but financial information isn't fully covered. I am trying to accertain the value proposition of all these things.

There is a guy here on youtube, I'm sorry I can't remember his name but he does back to eden gardening. He lives in AZ also and because of the way he mulches with wood chips and does a forest type growing of veggies he waters very little. He gets amazing yields. He has much smaller lot. It's great to have the fence you do around your property. Our's is open and a challenge with other animals coming in.

YOUR (SMALL) FARM IS SO CUTE AND AMAZING X

We’re new to small farming. It is definitely a menu commitment!

Love your videos.....finally someone my wife can relate to.....hoping to convince her to live this way

This year we did the slaughter, cut and wrap ourselves for two goats, I figure we saved a lot of money that way. It was lots of work but we learned a lot by doing it ourselves. This was a good video, got me thinking out much we spend on the farm. I know the most expensive part is the feed since we have the buildings and fencing done.

Hi Danelle, i live down the road from you in Tucson. I don't have property like yours, and have had to grow everything in containers. It's hard to grow things here because of the intense heat. But i found a book written by George Brookbank, the U of A extension agent. He suggested that we have a perception problem, not a heat problem. We look at Arizona as having a long growing season when we actually have two short seasons, due to the intense heat in July-August which kills pollen. Tomatoes and other plants won't set fruit in those months as the pollen is dead. We might have fruit ripening, but that was pollinated before the bad heat. You might notice that as the heat lessens these plants perk up again. But they won't do as well as they did at the start of the season, so pull them. He recommended we buy seeds from northern growers who have very short growing seasons, such as Johnny's (based in Vermont). Think of how short their growing season is, or Alaska's. They require plants to grow fast and ripen early with great flavor. That's also what wr need. Buy the varieties with shorter growing seasons, start seeds early in February so they can be planted as soon as last frost is over. Also start more tomato seeds in late May so they can be planted and ready to produce pollen as soon as daily temps are down to 90. These tomatoes will produce through the first frost and with some protection you might have home grown tomatoes on your Christmas table. Any green ones can be wrapped in newspaper and put in a dark closet to ripen...and they will. I'm sure you've probably figured this out by now, but maybe other folks in Arizona are still trying to trick their plants to producing. It won't work. Pollen dies after 90 degrees. You know how long our stretch of 100+ days are! I love your channel, your family and goats ate so much fun. Thank you so much. My growing days are over as I'm now disabled, so I'm getting my planting and growing fix from you and other UTubers!

Hi great video! Love it. I love gardening too, so far so good and got lots of vegetables too. Actually lots of eggplant, tomatoes, beans, onions, okra , bitter melons, fava beans, peas. But no animals so far. Great video enjoyed the farm and high wall!

I love watching u guy's it makes my day and i learn a lot and i want to thank u so much

Thank this was the video I was looking for and also I’m trying to do this except with 3.9 ha and I’m 11 so I have to save up along with a couple friends that want to be a vet and they’ll live with me if the help deliver the baby animals and I just found out how to crack the code to lottery except I’m not aloud to buy tickets yet

This is a big help! Thank you.

Thank you for this information. Now I know that I don't have to look for large properties. This was great help

Very beautiful farm!

Could you please do a video specifically on what everything on your farm eats?

I truly LOVE watching your channel im not into farming but i would be lying if you did not make me think about it at times haha also you have such a great little family thanks for sharing your life and skills ❤

Man I need chickens! I'm paying nearly £5.00 here in the UK for 12 eggs. And I am sure they are no where near the quality of yours!

Awesome video!

What a clever name for a channel.

Wow 😳 wee! I am so excited 😆 I found your channel! We live in Arizona and do suburban 👩‍🌾 👨‍🌾 farming also. We are a homeschool family with dreams of farming enough food to make a livable income. Thank you for sharing this information with us! Super helpful 👏🌽🌾🍅🌶🥔🍉🍇🍓🍈

I'm from the Bay Area in California and I really want to do this when I move to Oregon

We have just purchased an acre of land m/l, and I'd love to see a video about how to get started homesteading. Apologies if you have already done one, as I haven't fully investigated your playlist, yet. I'm enjoying the videos I HAVE watched very much.

Thank you so much for sharing this video clip. I am going to start a small farm, around 5 acres. If you have any farm plans to share, please let me know.

Wow, not as bad as I thought it'd be. Thank you.

Would love to see an update about the cost/benefit balance!

VERY GOOD

My numbers are so much different, $2/lb for pork, $3.6/lb for beef, $4/lb for lamb/goat. Chicken eggs are $2.5/dozen. I calculated animal costs, feed, transportation and butcher costs. We butchered our own chickens so our chicken was just $1/lb. The goat milk is too complicated to calculate the cost of, but the cheese whey gives us free chicken food. Thanks for sharing.

Great video. I'm a new goat owner and the feed has been one of my biggest concerns. We have 15 acres of forage and just found a local farmer to buy hay rounds from. Looks like I'll need to put all the pellets away.. we have the beet, alfalfa and sweet all stock feed. We have been giving the goats three cup of this mix each every night, after forage and hay all day. BTW the goats are mini nubians. So not very big.

Thanks am really waiting for my own garden ,from Kenya

I love your videos so much... Lovelots for you all from philippines to arizona 💝💝💝

hell yeah it takes skills to grow stuff in a freaking desert 🌵.

Why don't you invest in some garden towers that have a compost center tube, earth worms, drain the excess water into a bucket below for repeat use of wonderful self-fertilized water and up to 50 "pockets" for plants?!! The soil is kept so rich and loose weeding is easy. Once you start doing that you'll kick yourselves for not doing it starting long ago!

Have you considered a fodder system for your chickens? This may be helpful, though it may be a bit tricky in your climate. I get great results in Florida except for during the hot summer months. I am not sure if your chickens lay year round, but it is a wise decision to switch to a fodder system during the winter when they’re laying less often and therefore you are not making money off of them. All the best!

Not to mention when the trees get old you can cut them down and sell the wood , apple wood is expensive and used for cooking . U guys are great xoxo.. PS ... Many you can collect water for watering plants and animals

Ty for sharing!

good information, thank you

Om gosh i love your land so much!!!

You are doing an amazing job! Your kids, both types, look pretty well adjusted, but I was wondering where their friends are. I home schooled my daughter, and know what an issue that can be.

Home farms are a labor of love, if you do it for saving money I don't think it does since labor to take care of all of it isn't factored in either. It takes me one hour of my labor to pay for all the eggs, milk and veggies I could eat in a month and I can buy it at a local farm here. So, I would say if that is what you love to do go for it, for someone like myself I prefer the freedom of travel and not having to worry about plants, animals (except for my pets, 2 betas, 2 cats, 1 dog) to think about, although I would love to have a goat or two as pets as well. Enjoy your farm, it's a great way to live!!

So nice video

hi im watching your video I'm from Philippines. ...hopefully this year I'm going to start my small farm.

Here in Australia where it’s seriously hot up north and the soils have been devastated by gov influences and gum trees, many farmers are using BioDynamic principles from Rudolf Steiner coupled with Permaculture principles. Their costs have dropped to the point of no cost as these principles create water in the soil, they self feed and self fertilise.

Great info. Yahoo. You do really well. 👍😺💞

pretty hard to do all this stuff at once here , but I appreciate the advises , im a 18 year old boy who just happened to like this stuff , my first start with goats was with what I'd say rescuing 4 goats , a big mother ( that doesn't give milk ) , a very small doe ( I think she didn't get enough milk when growing so she got considerably small ) , a year old doe , and a six month old doe , these last two are promising , so they probably will be our beginning , I'd like to know when do I have to breed them ( they've never been bred before ) thnx

Hi there love your chanel . im in phoenix az

Well the lovely lady looks very healthy so the food must be good :)

Subscribed! 💙

I am so inspired..

Hello love your video very inspiring. Here is an ideal and it might help you and saving more on feeding the animals. Have you tried in your garden wood chips or wood ash? You can make a back to Eden Garden or no till garden and make your own worm composting or use chicken dropping for your garden. You should be able to have a greater harvest in your garden to feed all your animals. Thank you for your video

I'd love to see a cost break down for everything. Our organic chicken food is almost $200 every 6 weeks for 26 chickens. Our eggs would be more around $5 a dozen. Did you include building a structure and fencing? Our grass fed lamb cost is amongst $8 a lb. He was around 80lbs, we had to pay $50 for him, $40 for lamb replacer, hay in the winter. Butcher, kill and wrap fee were $150. I'd love $1lb meat!! always looking for ways to improve 😀 Thanks!!

Does that include Kevin finding stuff on the side of the road?

Thank you for the numbers

planting veggie is good combo with farming fish..

From my understanding Arizona is one of the hardest states to grow in but if you can the crop comes out great. Some people make high quality crops for wine out there.

Me and my grandma love you videos

Watching this in az

I am 12 and I hope to start a farm on 1 1/2 acres (out of 3ish acres) I am already starting a garden, I have some herbs and tomatoes. I reeeeally want at least one goat, a horse, some chickens and I have 4 ducks.

This is nice

I wonder: if you can, look up permaculture forest garden. Was just thinking az might allow you to do something like that. because it doesn't look like a garden really at all. It looks more like a forest it's all covered in mulch you start with all the fruit trees. And then from there depending on where you're at and what works in your area. I've seen many different ones. There's actually one down in Arizona that is pretty good and established.

Arizona is pretty hot . I’m excited to start a farm in my hot weather country

Does it feel like poop though? How much effort does it take to clean the farm?

DO A FARM TOUR AND WHAT KIND OF GOATS DO U HAVE???