A social media marketing strategy is essential for any entrepreneur and is especially important for those of us who are hustling from the homestead. Properly harnessing the power of social media can boost business and mean big returns. Failing to take advantage of social media can cost you traffic and help drive customers to your […]

Have you ever considered selling your goods at a local Farmer’s Market? If so, there are many things to think about before you plant a garden with every vegetable known to man. THE FIRST STEPS You need to become acquainted with all the laws, rules and regulations surrounding Farmer’s Markets in your state. They can […]

How to Use a Product Pricing Worksheet for Handmade & Value-Added Products   For many of us homestead entrepreneurs, creating handmade or value-added products is the easy part. The hard part comes after creation, when we have to price and market our goods for sale. Creating the product often comes as second nature (something we’ve […]

Franny’s Good Advice on Getting Started in  Agritourism Enjoy this advice on getting started in agritourism and don’t forget to be nice and be safe! For more Homestead videos and good advice visit The MOTHER EARTH NEWS and Friends Youtube. Visit Franny’s Farm at www.FrannysFarm.com

The internet is a wonderful tool to advertise your homemade products. Whether you have your own website, sell through social media or online classifieds, or run a shop through a site like eBay or Etsy, making the sale is only part of the process. You still need to find the best way to get the […]

Pumpkins are for laughter — for Jack-O-Lanterns and Halloween — during the cool, overcast days of autumn. Pumpkins are for pies . . . all winter long. And pumpkins are for extra cash: their sales bring in dollars when most other money crops are gone. A fellow homesteader put it this way: “Pumpkins are our […]

It’s all in a name, right? When you are shopping, what do you look for? It’s those tried-and-true products that are the go-to items on your list. What do you look for as you’re racing through a weekday shopping trip, before you have to get home and make supper (and attend to the other dozen […]

Spring on a farm can be stressful as you try to fit everything that needs attention into the time you have available, and it’s often equally stressful to look at your bank account. It sometimes seems that all you have are expenses, with very little income before crops are ready. One way we diversify our […]

Lots of Little Incomes; 8 Tips to Help You Do a Lot with a Little. Sometimes on a homestead it can be difficult to find one source of income that will sustain you for the whole year. Unless you have a large piece of property and can devote acres and acres to a mono crop […]

Hi! I’m Susi of Soozeezbeez and my bee farm is located in the heart of the beautiful Missouri Ozarks. I’m blessed to love what I do and am so excited to take you along on my journey.My bee farm actually began because of my love of gardening and canning. I read an article about a […]