I have done this as well and it is very exciting!
I have wrote some posts on here on that
experience like a post I called the Wire Bridge, which was my way of making an analogy, and encouraging other homesteaders to make the trip across.
I guess if there is any advice I can give you it is to pay attention to the financial topics as farming is so radically different then any other business model out there. I find the biggest thing is prioritizing what I do based around what I can make for money, or how I can save money.
Here is an example, despite me being incredibly busy right now, I prioritized a statement I got in the mail. It was for a medical bill that the insurance company
should have paid, but did not. When I worked a real job, I would just pay the bill and be done with it, but it was for $191.82...so about a days worth of farm work. Since I never know when my next bout of money will arrive, I will take the time to reply back to that wrongly billed co-pay because spending a half hour on it, will save me $191.82! That is what I mean by looking at money differently now.
It might be only $191.82, but that is (2) lambs that would have to go to slaughter, no they wrongly billed me, so I am going to ensure they pay for it. But when I was working a real job, what did $191.82 really matter, next week I would get another paycheck.
I just did our budgets for 2019 and the income chart is crazy...up down, up down, up down...you just never know in farming where the next bout of money is going to come from. That sort of cash flow is so radically different from having a steady paycheck.
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