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There's also good old fashioned barter with friends and neighbors. A neighbor goes to a lot of estate sales. I've asked her to be on the look out for various things I'd like to get, but not enough to buy brand new. Mostly kitchen stuff, but it would work for other things too.

Depending on your relationship with your neighbors, consider just telling them what you're looking for. If I hadn't made the comment to my neighbor about her (unfinished) green house frame, I wouldn't have know she wanted it out of there. The same neighbor had a roll of 3' hardware cloth in her...

Don't forget repurposing things. We used the frame of an old trailer as the base of our coop. We still had to buy lumber, but had a solid foundation to build on all ready. We also repurposed the metal frame from an unused greenhouse. I happened to mention to my neighbor that it "would make a...