Complex sentence: Using funding from friends, family members, their own savings, and $33,000 from a Kickstarter campaign, they began building a slaughterhouse on the property around 2009, as a do-it-yourself project.
Split into simpler sentences: Using funding from friends, family members, their own savings, and $33,000 from a Kickstarter campaign, they began building a slaughterhouse on the property around 2009. The farm built the slaughterhouse themselves as a do-it-yourself project.