7 KIN HOMESTEAD

HOMESTEAD FEASIBILITY PLANNER

Most homesteads fail because the math wasn't done first. This tool compares your city life costs to homestead life, shows you the exact crossover point, checks your readiness, calculates your food independence — and gives you an honest plan to make it work.

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City costs — what you pay now
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Homestead costs — what you'd pay instead
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The crossover — when homestead wins
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Readiness + Animals Last rule
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Food production + calorie independence
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Full picture + your personalized plan
or just hit Start and fill in what applies to you
7 KIN HOMESTEAD
Feasibility Planner
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Jason · 7 Kin Homestead
Jason's city life: $5,240/mo for a family of 7
A $2,800 apartment, $250 electric, $1,500 groceries. Every month felt like paying someone else's mortgage. The breaking point was realizing we were spending over $60,000 a year and building zero equity. We ran the homestead math — and it worked from day one. We just hadn't looked at it yet.

YOUR CURRENT CITY COSTS

Enter what you pay now. Toggle OFF anything that goes away when you move off-grid. Toggle ON anything you'd still pay.

Monthly Expenses
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Jason · 7 Kin Homestead
7 Kin homestead: $1,505/mo — same 7 people
$212 land payment (now paid off), $4,500 DIY solar, $135 Starlink, $600 groceries. The first month we were cheaper than city life we cried. We'd been telling ourselves we couldn't afford to leave. Turns out we couldn't afford to stay.

YOUR HOMESTEAD COSTS

What you'd actually pay living off-grid. Solar shown at DIY install prices — 40-60% cheaper than hiring it out.

Monthly Homestead Expenses
DIY Solar System
☀ DIY vs Pro Install: A 5kW system runs $8,000–12,000 DIY vs $20,000–28,000 professionally installed. DIY is legal in most states — you pull the permit, do the work, and have a licensed electrician do the final inspection. Use the 7 Kin Solar Designer tool to size your exact system. → Open Solar Designer
total cost
year life

After year ?, your power is FREE compared to your old electric bill. Enter your old electric bill above in City Life to see the exact crossover.

Household Size
people
Value Your Labor?
Include time as a cost

THE CROSSOVER POINT

The exact month when homestead life becomes cheaper than city life — permanently.

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Jason · 7 Kin Homestead
Jason's readiness build order
Water first (non-negotiable — every system depends on it). Then shelter (700 sq ft, 7 people — everyone said impossible). Then $4,500 DIY solar (one weekend). Then chest freezer + pressure canner. Then fencing. Then one garden season. THEN chickens. In that order.
🚨 THE ANIMALS LAST RULE

This is the #1 cause of homestead failure: getting animals before your systems are ready. Animals need reliable water, power, fencing, and food storage before they arrive. A cow without a working well is a crisis. Chickens without predator-proof housing are dead chickens. Check every box below FIRST. → Becoming Rock Rich

Check each system as you complete it
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Jason · 7 Kin Homestead
7 Kin: 500 sq ft garden, ~40% food independent year one
Potatoes, sweet potatoes, green beans, tomatoes. Combined with 6 hens we hit ~40% food independence by end of year one. The calorie math surprised us — a 10×10 potato bed feeds a family of 7 for two months. Stack calories first, variety second.

FOOD PRODUCTION & CALORIES

Select your animals and crops. We'll calculate your annual calories, protein, and % of food independence. Goal: 750,000 cal/yr per person.

Animals — sorted easiest → hardest

⭐ = Beginner  ⭐⭐ = Easy  ⭐⭐⭐ = Intermediate  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ = Advanced  ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ = Expert only

Garden Crops
sq ft
⚠ Note on the Animal Budget: The monthly costs shown are ongoing feed, vet, and labor costs only. They do NOT include the one-time startup cost of purchasing your initial breeding pairs or starter flock. Those startup costs are shown separately in the 🧛 Resource Vampire section on Step 6.

YOUR FULL PLAN

Complete summary. Download your report or CSV to take with you.

Enter your current monthly expenses above
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YOUR FEASIBILITY PLAN

Fill in your current city expenses on the left, then your expected homestead costs, and we'll calculate the exact month when homestead life becomes cheaper — permanently.