6 Top Ways To Make Money In The Country

These Businesses Do Better In Rural Areas Than Others!

There are hundreds of ways to make money in the country that are not remotely possible in the city and the Internet is what makes it easier.

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The key thing to remember in this guide post is: The more ways you can communicate with clients or customers and deliver your products and services, the greater your options.

For example, a home based business doesn’t necessarily limit you starting an online business or work from home business that provide services.

Ways To Make Money In The Country Are Not Limited

Many country folk complain that the market for their product is limited, or people won’t pay their asking price.

The rural money solution for that is simple.

Look for new markets outside of your rural area if you hope to survive.

There are three main ways to accomplish looking for new markets outside of your rural area that include:

• Online marketplaces such as Facebook, etc.
• Social media accounts
• A website designed to make money

Start Here

Start by getting my simple report Fillable Homestead As A Business Year Planner: Simplified Printable To Organize Your Homestead Business Off Or Online.

This is a very important resource you formulate your ideas and “get started”!

The whole world is your oyster. You are in the best position of your life to take the opportunities that life has to offer.

The following types of businesses are the best and most popular with rural families and other individuals living in rural communities.

Stay tuned to Rural Money because I will be bringing you a series of guide posts to country business ideas to start online.

Special Farm Crops

If you don’t think these are hot 🔥, you don’t know what’s selling on Amazon Fresh and other organic food markets.

• Birdseed
• Christmas trees
• Culinary herbs: Fresh and dried
• Fish: Catfish, salmon, trout (smoked, fresh, canned, pickled, etc.)
• Flowers: Fresh, seeds, ornamentals
• Sod/turf
• Special grains: Quinoa, etc.
• Sprouting seeds: Mung beans, etc.

Food Businesses

I ask you, “When will people EVER get tired of GOOD food?

• Deer 🦌 farming
• Baked goods: Breads, pies, cookies, cakes for local restaurants, stores, individual consumers local, online, worldwide
• Cake baking: Birthdays, weddings, anniversaries
• Catering: Using local commercial kitchen facilities
• Candy making
• Grass-fed beef
• Cider and vinegar
• Gourmet foods: Sauces, seasonings, soup mixes, flavored popcorn
• Honey and honey products
• Jams, jellies, juices, wines
• Maple syrup and related products
• Meats: Frozen, freeze-dried, smoked game
• Soy nut snacks
• Yogurt and specialty cheeses

Mobile Services For Farmers

• Auctioneering
• Bookkeeping/taxes
• Consulting: Crops, animals, equipment
• Dairy service: Vacationing families
• Excavating
• Grain bin insulating
• Repair services: Home appliances, farm machinery, implementation
• Restoration Services: Antique furniture, old farm equipment
• Rose arbors, benches, swings, bird houses, and yard accessories

Regular Country Businesses

• Videotaping services
• Vegetable stand
• Upholstery and furniture repair
• Sheep 🐑 farming: Selling sheep’s milk, cheese, fleece, yarn, gift items
• Self-publishing: Cookbooks, patterns, how-to-books
• Poultry and eggs
• Petting zoo
• Live and dried plants
• Home parties: Party plan sales, all type of products
• Daycare for elderly
• Hunting guide
• Hunting lease operation: Pheasant, quail, other game birds
• Handyman service for elderly
• Gun dogs: Boarding kennels, training
• Greenhouse
• Garden products and accessories
• Farm tours
• Dog kennel: Grooming, showing, obedience classes
• Cross-country skiing
• Campground areas
• Bees and beekeeper supplies
• Bed 🛏 and breakfast 🥣 inn
• Airbnb
• Bait shop/worm production for fishing, fertilizer tea, etc.

Country Arts And Crafts

These businesses sell products and services on Facebook Marketplace 24/7.

• Animal traps
• Christmas boutiques
• Corn shuck crafts
• Custom artwork: Portraits of children, pets, horses, farmhouses, on rocks, etc.
• Custom leatherwork: Chaps, saddle bags, bridles
• Deerskin and sheepskin products
• Doll and toy making
• Down comforters and pillows (feather pillows)
• Farm-themed handcrafts: Cows, pigs, horses, chickens, geese, bunnies, duck decoys, nature items, dried miniature corn, hay bales, grapevine baskets and wreaths, etc.
• Fishing lures and tackles
• Handcrafted products of wool, fur, roadkill, or hide
• Teaching arts and crafts
• Quilt making, needlework, sewing
• Woodcarving

Mainstreet Businesses

• Accounting
• Insurance
• Marketing services
• Secretarial/virtual assistant
• Web site design/management
• Social media manager
• Burglary alarms/systems
• Computer services
• Consulting
• Fertilizer service: Lawns, golf ⛳ courses
• Financial planner

Start Here

Start by getting my simple report Fillable Homestead As A Business Year Planner: Simplified Printable To Organize Your Homestead Business Off Or Online.

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