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Investing in Our Future

Our personal investment strategy we practice that works!

Donna Brown
5 min readMar 14, 2024
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Homestead-style investment

During the past several years, we have seen inflation on food go up an average of 25% per year. Eating out has increased even more than that! Fortunately, we haven’t suffered because we have invested in our futures through homesteading!

Investing in Infrastructure

We invest in where we live and make it as profitable to us as possible. We have invested in a small piece of land, a house trailer, two vehicles, (one of them is a travel van), and outbuildings. Our taxes are relatively low compared to the rest of the United States. We are building our soil using natural materials, so we don’t have to rely on purchased fertilizers.

We have been producing more food ourselves. Since before the beginning of the pandemic, my husband and I have been changing our lifestyle to one where we haven’t felt the effects of the cost of inflation that many others have felt. We raise our vegetable garden, and we raise a few chickens. Although we have seen an increase in the cost of chicken feed, a lot of what we give them comes from food that we otherwise would have thrown out and some food that we raise ourselves. In addition, the price of chicken feed has declined, so…

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Donna Brown
Donna Brown

Written by Donna Brown

Author of 9 fiction and 10 nonfiction books, homesteader, mother, grandma, Owner of Self-Publishers Unite on Skool www.skool.com/self-publishers-unite-1672

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