A homestead investment strategy: forget stocks, bonds, and CDs; plant trees and raise animals.

A man invested $2,000 in CDs and was disappointed when after taxes he had gained $42 in two years. As a homesteader, he felt he could take the $2,000 and earn more. He decided to invest in trees for a tree farm, and with his veterinarian wife, he also began to successfully breed dogs.

Let's face it, most homesteaders don't have a lot of money. Every time we get a few bucks ahead, we're less concerned with investing it than we are getting that much needed brake job on the pickup truck, or building a new poultry coop or some other project.

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