I just followed you.
My dream is to buy 100 acres in the Ozarks in Arkansas and clear off some land and grow fruit trees, vegetable gardens, earth-ship homes - self sustaining and off-grid living, lake / pond to raise fish, chickens, turkeys, goats and perhaps some pigs and cattle.
I am looking for interns and maybe some teachers / trainers to grow organic food.
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Awesome, Thanks Freedomshift!
Sounds like me and you share a similar dream, just a little different on the location. Nice, if I come across anyone looking for work I will refer them to you :)
See...we have something in common. I frickin' love earth ships. Have you seen the documentary on them? I can't remember his name right off, but the man who pioneered them. Designed the first ones. I love that guy. He really fought a legal battle to get them allowed too. He's made a life of it. I want to do the same. I doubt I'll have 100 acres, but I have the same dream. It's the ultimate dream. I hope you can do it. I'm in the South, if I was closer I'd love to get involved.
I'll leave you alone for today :P Just couldn't resist commenting on that.
mike reynolds....."the garbage warrior!" http://www.garbagewarrior.com/
Yep, that's him! Thank you.
Hiya @freedomshift! I'm from the outskirts of Springfield Missouri, just north of the Ozarks. Now I live a couple hrs north and slowly trying to get a homestead going here. Where are you from now? We don't have much started yet other than the native wild partial food Forrest growing along our creek and preexisting apple and pear trees, wild black raspberries, couple blackberries, and wild herbs/greens, but I hope to soon have the beginnings of a food Forrest, following in James's example. Eventually Hope to get goats, ducks, chickens, and quail.
not purchased the land yet. I'll probably need someone local to help me understand what and where to buy. I am looking for timberland that can be harvested and cleared partially (perhaps 10 / 100 acres) and build my farm, pond - lake and earth-ship home.
I would like to stay in Arkansas so that I can engage / employ a fishery in Texas to help me build the pond - lake and raise fish that they supply.
So, anyone with more experience or young enough to see the benefits of homesteading could fit in my plan. For example, a young person who is unemployed and cannot find a job could work the land and homestead there on a collaboration - internship, depending what each person puts into it.
I will also need someone as my local contact - I am in Houston, Texas - during the process of scouting for the property - timberland in Arkansas Ozarks and help with checking out the property and making recommendations and even represent me in some way.@phedizzle - thanks for reaching out to me with your comment. I am looking for people who can collaborate. I have
freedom-shift is a term that I came across and want to help people see that it is coming or already here and we all need to do our part or be left out.
We all need to get rid of thinking that we need to get a job and work for someone else. I see "free thinker" in your profile. I often call myself a rebel - perhaps an action oriented free thinker.
We need to collaborate, even so slightly or loosely for independent-minded people.
Together we stand tall.
It took him 6 years. I plan to do mine faster - in a year or two. I'll contribute capital and look for young interns and trainers to put in the work and collaborate to build the homestead and farm - notice that they will not be employees and these are paths to independence and these are not jobs or employment opportunities - although there will be short-term contract workers that I'll need from established companies to harvest timber and build roads / pavements or other structures and facilities.
I hear what you're saying. Something worth mentioning, though, is that you might be able to find people to do the work and get everything all established, but nature takes time. 6 years for a food forrest is pretty normal because it takes 5-7 years to start getting fruit off most trees. It takes time for things to get established and that's one thing with permaculture that I valued learning because it put things into perspective for me. We can try to rush nature, but that's gonna be a hurry up and wait game. lol. So, imo, it's not that it took him 6 years, it's that it takes 5-7 years after everything is built and prepared and planted. Something to think about as you start your planning and implementing process, so you are not disappointed the first few years.
We were fortunate when we moved here that there were already wild native edible trees/plants and pre-existing orchard.
I hope you can find people with those like minded goals to help you scout a place and get things built. That would be the fastest most efficient way to do it, for sure. We could use that type of help here, too, because one of the biggest reasons we do not have out permaculture "foundation" in place is because we are not physically capable to doing the work. Which is a big bummer, but we are doing what we can.
Thank you for your comments! I am planning to establish this place for future generations - my grand children. They will also need others to form a community. I plan to grow tropical fruit trees in an underground greenhouse.
So, even 10 years is not long, but I want to do it right at the start.
Collaboration could be to form a group and hire young people or give them sweat equity to help us who need their labor.
I am not sure yet if you have joined the #homesteadersonline discord group, but you should definitely do so. It is a really great online chat server dedicated to all things homesteading on steemit. There you will meet people who are doing and wanting to do what you are discussing, and I know some of them are in the Arkansas area. At the bottom of all my posts I post the link both to their website, as well as the discord invite link.
Thank you! I will.