How Much Money We Made on Our 10 Acre Homestead (2025)
For the past few years, I've shared openly about our progress in making money from our homestead.
I don't do this to brag -- but rather in hopes of inspiring others that - like us - have a hard time in their ability to grow more of their own food because they don't have a lot of extra money to buy animals, build infrastructure, etc.
That was our main goal initially. We just wanted to make a little money to be able to grow MORE food for our own family without my husband having to work extra hours off farm. We were ready to say goodbye to the grocery store!
I honestly wasn't sure what was possible considering at that time, we only had 5 acres to work with. We started our homestead business with very limited money, and even MORE limited time. It’s all happened while balancing running a homestead & business ventures with raising and schooling 5 (now 8!) kids...
But several years in now... after a lot of trial and error, hard work, and consistent success, I can confidently say it's ABSOLUTELY possible to make a lot of money from homesteads of any size, location, and even time limitations!
Our homestead not only makes enough money annually to cover all it's own costs (meaning the cost of homegrown food for our own consumption doesn't come our of our family's personal budget), but it also makes enough to continue improving our property, upgrading tools, etc.
Remember, it doesn't happen over night! This is year 4 of really being strategic and intentional with running our own business. This last year, we focused on 3-4 main enterprises for the majority of our income streams.
Quick disclaimer:
These numbers are approximately TOTAL REVENUE. Not profit. Though each of these individual enterprises is profitable, that's a breakdown for another post.
INCOME STREAM #1:
Meat Chickens
We raised a total of 600 meat chickens to sell this year (plus another 125ish for our own freezer). We primarily sell meat chicken direct-to-consumer as whole birds but do have a small Chicken CSA as well.
Our birds this year averaged between 5.25-5.5 lbs. Most were sold for $5.75/lb (some early orders had $5.25/lb pricing).
This total also includes reservations for 2026 chickens (approx. $5,000 of the total).
Total Revenue for 2025: $17,435.14
(2024 Revenue was $12,532.51 for 400 birds)
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INCOME STREAM #2:
On Farm Events
We scaled back on events this year due to both time & interest.
Here's a breakdown of the events we hosted this year and how much they individually made:
Women's Spring Gathering - $2,705
Home Dairy Products 101 - $827
Vegetable Gardening Class - $550
Crocheting 101 Class - $710
Meat Chickens Workshop - $605
Tickets for 2026 Events - $845
Total Revenue for 2025: $6,242.00
(2024 Event Revenue was $3,910)
INCOME STREAM #3:
Chicken Butchering
This was year two of offering chicken butchering as a service for people who want to raise their own meat chickens but don’t wait to process them.
We processed one day a week - almost every Friday from May through October. We ended up processing 28 times and did just under 2000 birds for other people (plus our own 700+). We priced this service at $5 for each whole bird and $8 for parted out birds.
This enterprise has continued to be a great way to not only leverage tools, skills, and infrastructure we already have (our processing equipment) but also to work together as a family and involve the kids (who also got paid for their efforts!) I also love how this allowed us to meet a ton of other local people into homesteading.
Total Revenue for 2025: $13,745
(Revenue for 2024 was $3,950 — that was around 1,000 birds)
INCOME STREAM #3:
Raw Milk Herd Share
This is a total new income stream for us this year.
Though I have tested doing a herd share in the past, this year — with Tommy home — we dove into it more. We provided milk for about 15 families for once a week pick up.
Total Revenue for 2025: $10,162
OTHER MISC. INCOME:
I wouldn't call these core enterprises, but they did give us a nice bonus/boost this year.
#1 - COMFREY ROOTS
I have sold comfrey root cuttings for a few years now and it's a great way to make money without much upfront costs (as long as you have the plants established already!)
Total Revenue for 2025: $6,060
#2 - CROCHETED HATS & HEADBANDS
This isn’t a new income stream, but I do lean into it from time to time.
Total Revenue for 2025: $3,605
That's all of what I call our "on homestead income". But we do have one more category that is a big part of our homestead funds... and that's digital income.
INCOME STREAM #4:
Online Income
This is a really general category for what is actually nearly a dozen different income streams that are all digital/online based.
I'm not going to give totals for this category, but to give a general idea of what type of digital income.
Affiliate sales
Brand partnerships/collaborations
Freelance writing
Digital products (ebooks, courses, etc.)
The Intentional Homesteading membership
And several others
I'm incredibly grateful for the ability to use the internet as a small, rural homestead to amplify our homestead income!
GRAND TOTAL
for our 10 Acre Homestead
Income in 2025:
(approximately... this won't be finalized until my accountant looks over numbers at tax time!)
$57,249.14
For reference.. that’s more than double what we did in 2024 (which was just at $25,000)
You guys. How exciting is that!?
It was 100% a team effort to hit those numbers, I’m very proud of our family for our progress!
Learning to monetize our homestead has been a huge blessing that not only allows us to grow MORE food, but allows us to work for ourselves too.
