>>1511479I think you are confusing homesteading and self-sufficiency with "living on the moon" which is a common thing among people who don't know anything about it. What you are referring to is "subsistence farming" where you acquire most of your food by farming it. At what level you do this is up to you. It may be only farming for food or farming for food and enough profit to pay for everything.
It really isn't difficult. You just make it your job, have the skills, the land, and knowledge of how to do it. You can fail miserably or succeeded very well. We have the internet now, which is loaded with more info than 1 person could ever know. If you have enough land and start up capital then there's no excuse not to have year-round harvests and butchering.
You can even go so far as to grow/pasture all the food for your animals. The more you do the more you job grows.
>>1511483I trade my crops and meat for other crops, different meat, and services. I also sold a few hundred starts this spring. That paid for everything I need to do with the crops I'm growing. As in it paid for all the electric used during growing starts indoors and buying seeds I don't have or ones clients want I don't have. I sell eggs and trade eggs. I sell/trade chicks, ducklings, and goslings. That pays for all the poultry needs with lots to spare. I'm trying to get things ready for raising rabbits and pool money, supplies, and help for raising a greenhouse. I traded canned goods for tractor services and the poultry money is also going towards having someone deliver 10 tons of manure.
>>1511487>what exactly a homesteader eats to get by day to dayPersonally, it is everything I grow, forage, hunt/fish, trap, raise, trade for, and limited purchases. See this
>>1510072 that was a small amount of chickens butchered and it gave me meat for 1 person for 190 days. This collage of images (reposted) is also all mine and should give you some insight.
>>1511493>>1511496I spend $300/year on food now.
