Joel Salatin walks through how to leave your job for farming: get out of debt, save two years of living expenses, cut costs, work extra while you prepare, find small acreage, and start with chickens. Practical steps for anyone serious about the transition.
You can quit your job and start farming. First thing to do is to get out of debt, so don't quit your day job. And then I always encourage people to save up enough that you can live for 2 years. Now that doesn't need to be as much as you might think if you're willing to live cheaply. While you're accumulating a little bit of a nest egg, start taking that time either to get a second job. The point is to take all that time that you would spend recreating, find people, start asking around for an acre of land, 2 acres of land, okay? It doesn't have to be much. If you want it, you You gotta want it. Therese and I, you know, lived 7 years up in the attic of the farmhouse. We called it our penthouse. The point is to cut your living expenses down, and once you raise that first batch of chickens and you process them, then you're up and running.
If I had to start my Homestead all over again, it could only pick one animal… 
