Nice story and the woods look beautiful. Just wanted to comment on the water issue. The best water is very easy to obtain. A simple water catchment system collecting rainwater is efficient and potable. Best of luck with your lovely project. Lots of good homesteading information is available, See permaculture
@ht6684 Exactly. I have a friend who has a FARM on 5 acres. He has a house, a barn, some livestock, and a garden, and he still has a ton of room. I have a cousin who has 11 acres, he's just paid off the mortgage and was blessed enough to get a cash windfall that allowed him and his wife to build a really nice house. It originally had a mobile home that wasn't all that great, but it allowed them to have a place to stay on weekends and for a week or two at a time while they built the infrastructure for gardening, a berry patch, an orchard, and a vineyard. After all this, they still have room for expansion and livestock. It's double the size of my friends place, but the point is that both have plenty of room still even though both are small in acreage.
Im in the process of buying a smaller house on 11ha land (27 acres), mixed fields and smaller part of woods. Two land plots sold together. Might sell of one of them keeping about half of the land. Gonna buy the tractor the current owner have. I have no idea how to farm, I dont know how to drive a tractor, Im a software developer. Currently in the packing 📦 phase. If everything works as planed. I got the keys to the new place in a month and a half. Moving from a appartment outside of a town, to a house at the end of a gravel road in the woods with one neibour.
@@GoosePondHideoutWithRob Yeah. I really looking forward to this, at the same time it scares me. But, as you say the lesson comes later. This is totally new to me. Been eyeballing country houses for many years. Just didn’t expect me ever to have the chance of picking up anything like this. Apparently the neibour is interested in one plot of the land. So that would cut it down to more managable part. Biggest challenge is ofcourse the switch from smaller appartment to farm life. But gotta try it. We see what the lesson will be.
@@eightsprites You can avoid a lot of mistakes by watching You Tube videos. People are very generous to share their experience. Take full advantage. We, moved out of a city 4 years ago, spouse is a mechanical engineer and I'm basically labor. We made lots of mistakes but we planted fruit trees, a good sized garden and we have our own well and septic. We recycle, compost and burn (making biochar) so we don't have to pay for trash pickup. We have chickens. Our first brood is laying now! We put in a highly efficient woodstove and use dead trees for firewood to save on propane (we haven't used our central heat in years). It's doable. It's hard work but it's satisfying. God gives us satisfaction through our work: Ecclesiastes Five: Eighteen through twenty Godspeed.
@@-OBELUS- Thanks for your comment. I have watched every video available on how to safely use a chainsaw and how to care for the tractor Im buying (45y old). I think I can manage any faults that popup 🤣. Except changing oil seals in the engine and gearbox. 🤣. Not afraid of the fields and farming part. If I get something eatable its fine, first two years or so isn’t that important. Its a bit overgrown, so I need to clear out a bunch of smaller trees. That’s gonna be my first task. Its gonna be great, but I expect a few years to adjust to be honest. Its all fine, since Im lucky and can bring my current work with me, its all fine. 🤠
@@eightsprites It IS going to be great. These are the best years of my life. Especially after grinding for 4 years to pause a moment each day to look around at how much we've accomplished, take a deep breath and thank God for His provision. We're fixing up a house at the same time. I just finished taking down scaffolding out of the stairwell this morning after finishing painting and some drywall repair. It looks great. Remembering to look around and see how far you've come has helped me not burn out.
in a real shtf situation ull want to have strong community relations. going solo is harder they say. im not a prepper im just trying to live in nature more. i feel like if u improve and enjoy and spend time w ur community today, the shtf scenario will be pushed back a little further. i personally wouldnt cut any trees. id forage whats edible that grows naturally. if ur gonna grow food ull need an excess of nutrients in compost which comes from outside ur property anyway. unless im mistaken. hard to keep all nutrients at home even w fencing and an outhouse. so skip the tilling and fencing and just identify and forage. plus fishing, since nutrients have to b brought in eventually u might as well go out every now and again for fish instead of compost. whatever u can handle given the realities of life. ppl say u can grow enuf food for a fam of 4 on a quarter acre. maybe if rare herbs grow naturally u can sell or barter w friends for food
The lands in the west are way more cheaper than the east coast, because the west is mostly desert that's why the prices go down, I truly think the west is the right place for those who want to buy a very big land, you can find 40 acres for less than 40k , however you always have to keep in mind that it is a desert and water is hard to find so before buying something over there it's always better to think how you're gonna get water for drinking, for the animals and for the plants, Even in death valley California one of the most driest places on earth there is many Aquifers but you have to Dig a well First by yourself or paying for it, and believe it or not there's many parts of the moajve desert which includes California Nevada and Arizona which can rain over 10 inches per year so collecting water from the rain is good option , people can get in only two or three rainstorms over 15,000 gallons of water .
