E48: Making Your Homestead Pay for Itself While Building a Family-Centered Life | Beth Declercq of Intentional Homesteading
About this episode
Beth Declercq shares her journey of making a homestead financially independent while raising a large family.
From scaling a handful of pre-sold meat chickens into a profitable farm business to running classes, events, and online courses that now support her household, Beth Declercq has mastered the art of making a homestead pay for itself all while raising eight children at home. In this episode, she shares how she focuses on core income streams, grows profitable ventures, and even employs her own kids through the family’s LLC to teach them skills and keep more of what they earn. If you’ve ever wondered how to turn your homestead into a sustainable source of income without stepping away from family life, you won’t want to miss this conversation. Listen in! In this episode, we cover: Beth’s path from city living to a thriving 10-acre homestead with her husband and eight kids How a focus on real food in 2011 grew into a diverse, mostly self-sufficient farm Creating a dedicated “scullery” to handle the mess of preservation, milking, and butchering outside the main kitchen Setting a goal for the homestead to be financially independent—and the strategy that made it happen Scaling from 100 pre-sold meat chickens to 750 a year, with profits funding the rest of the farm Focusing on core…
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