This is truly inspirational! Thank you for sharing!
"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality!"
Set your mind to achieve your dream and work towards achieving it!
All the best!
Wow...this gave me chills. What a perfect example of working towards your goal and never giving up. I'm in awe. Thank you @phedizzle for sending me this!
You are a breath of fresh air @gardeningchannel! Welcome to steemit and thank you for bringing your talent here. I am a curator for an educational group called @helpie, our goal is to find good content and get it more of an audience. I would love to feature this in our Helpie Weekly Curation Report if you are ok with that, where you will be paid for your content from the post payout (it is split between the featured authors). Our goal is to lift you up and build your community. Find me on discord @llfarms if you have any questions!
Thank you Llfarms!
I am humbled to hear that. And I am proud to be part of the Steemit community. I am really loving it 😁😁
That would be awesome. I’m a little knew to the site, so I’m still learning . Thanks for reaching out, and for your kindness.
-James
Wonderful! The article comes out on Monday. I will have you tagged in it, so if you are set up on GINAbot then you should get a notification. Also, I think you would be a great addition to the helpie community. Do you have discord? We could chat and I could give you all the details.
I am here on steemit primarily to encourage, inspire, help and collaborate with my strengths and assets - i have invested in STEEM and Powered up. Today is day 22, but I am already at 513 SP and I want to use my SP to help a few people and encourage them and to make some friends.
My focus is: health, wealth, technology, and leadership - as a Christian.
Wonderful! "food freedom" is the foundation. Also, we all need to do what you do and especially to get ahead of the GMO invasion of the natural food supply.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At best this post should not be in a video format, as my experience is people like the classical blog format better. Videos may be of course part of that blog post. Your followers will increase drastically if you hit the sweet spot, and with your reputation your chances are great. Even though this is almost just like a #introduceyourself post, I would recommend you make one really propper and official self introduction post with all proper tags, so that people can find it.
See examples of introduction posts here and also pay attention to the tags: https://steemit.com/trending/introduceyourself
Wow Moritz!
Thanks so much for reaching out and for the suggestions. You know I’m obsciously knew at Steemit, although I do love it. So any tips or ideas are appreciated.
I will work on that and take your suggestions. I will also look at some of the posts your referencing, thanks for doing that my friend.
Just for you to know. Keep your voting power percentage in the range of 70% to 100% (Which equals an average of 10 uvotes per day). [All important info about an account here: https://steemworld.org/@my-permaculture , just replace my name in the link with your name behind the @] With every vote your voting power falls and it regenerates at a constant pace. Also don't post more than 4 posts a day, as you will not be payed from the fifth post in 24h on.
Perfect! Thank you I will check your post out now.
And I appreciate the advice, and for opening the door to future questions. That’s one reason I’m falling in love with this platform. Everyone seems to want to lift up one another. A rising tide raises all shops right? 👊
Hey James. Sorry to not have seen it. Your first post was an introduction post.. But maybe you can reintroduce, as your picking up to be around here again.
Wow! What a fantastic video! To see the progression that is made is really cool. My food Forest is about a year-and-a-half in so hopefully in a few years I'll be able to make a video just as beautiful.
Thank you Quelquun!
Year one is an exciting time. Know you get to design your future food selection and little mini paradise. Gardening is truly my passion.
I wish you the best also my friend. And happy harvests for your first year 😁
Love this video James! Seeing the building process is always so helpful! I especially like the positive quotes you have playing through the food Forrest progression! Thanks for sharing.
it is still a dream ATM and I hope and pray that it will happen but I am making connections now as opportunities presented themselves.
Thanks!@llfarms - I was looking for your comment: "Oh! I'm sorry I thought you were looking for some one to internship on land together, homesteaders discord would be" - yes, I am, but,
This is truly inspirational! Thank you for sharing!
"Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality!"
Set your mind to achieve your dream and work towards achieving it!
All the best!
Im glad you enjoyed it. This was one of my favorite videos to make. Yeah, Les Brown is amazing
Wow...this gave me chills. What a perfect example of working towards your goal and never giving up. I'm in awe. Thank you @phedizzle for sending me this!
You are a breath of fresh air @gardeningchannel! Welcome to steemit and thank you for bringing your talent here. I am a curator for an educational group called @helpie, our goal is to find good content and get it more of an audience. I would love to feature this in our Helpie Weekly Curation Report if you are ok with that, where you will be paid for your content from the post payout (it is split between the featured authors). Our goal is to lift you up and build your community. Find me on discord @llfarms if you have any questions!
Thank you Llfarms!
I am humbled to hear that. And I am proud to be part of the Steemit community. I am really loving it 😁😁
That would be awesome. I’m a little knew to the site, so I’m still learning . Thanks for reaching out, and for your kindness.
-James
Wonderful! The article comes out on Monday. I will have you tagged in it, so if you are set up on GINAbot then you should get a notification. Also, I think you would be a great addition to the helpie community. Do you have discord? We could chat and I could give you all the details.
Perfect, thank you!
I would love to be a part of the community!! 😁
I have to drop a link here for a private chat. So just tag me @llfarms when you are online
I am glad I found this post and all these great people doing wonderful things. Is that room for an old geek - nerd?
Of course Freedomshift!! Always room for another friend. I plan on being in old geek in the future myself. 😂
You say old geek nerd like it's a bad thing. You both should join the homsteaders discord...great people there
https://discord.gg/VKCrWsS
I am here on steemit primarily to encourage, inspire, help and collaborate with my strengths and assets - i have invested in STEEM and Powered up. Today is day 22, but I am already at 513 SP and I want to use my SP to help a few people and encourage them and to make some friends.
My focus is: health, wealth, technology, and leadership - as a Christian.
Beautiful my friend. I am a Christian as well, and my message is food freedom!
Wonderful! "food freedom" is the foundation. Also, we all need to do what you do and especially to get ahead of the GMO invasion of the natural food supply.
Yay! So exciting!
Thank you my friend 😁
You educate them and I'll offer internship or collaboration.
Thanks!
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.
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.
so freakin' inspiring!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you bro! Hoping to inspire as many gardens as possible 👊
Dear James.
At best this post should not be in a video format, as my experience is people like the classical blog format better. Videos may be of course part of that blog post. Your followers will increase drastically if you hit the sweet spot, and with your reputation your chances are great.
Even though this is almost just like a #introduceyourself post, I would recommend you make one really propper and official self introduction post with all proper tags, so that people can find it. See examples of introduction posts here and also pay attention to the tags: https://steemit.com/trending/introduceyourself
All the best.
Moritz
Wow Moritz!
Thanks so much for reaching out and for the suggestions. You know I’m obsciously knew at Steemit, although I do love it. So any tips or ideas are appreciated.
I will work on that and take your suggestions. I will also look at some of the posts your referencing, thanks for doing that my friend.
James
Hey James.
This was my introduction post back in January: https://steemit.com/introduceyourself/@my-permaculture/hello-everybody
And @theferalone made this great write up with all essentials for the steemit beginner. https://steemit.com/steemiteducation/@theferalone/field-guid-to-steemit-how-it-works-and-how-to-survive-your-first-30-days. The ammount of information can be overwhelming, but it will all fall in place.
Just for you to know. Keep your voting power percentage in the range of 70% to 100% (Which equals an average of 10 uvotes per day). [All important info about an account here: https://steemworld.org/@my-permaculture , just replace my name in the link with your name behind the @] With every vote your voting power falls and it regenerates at a constant pace. Also don't post more than 4 posts a day, as you will not be payed from the fifth post in 24h on.
Feel free to reach out when ever you want. Also on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/myPermacultureMoritz or by mail where i wrote you.
Perfect! Thank you I will check your post out now.
And I appreciate the advice, and for opening the door to future questions. That’s one reason I’m falling in love with this platform. Everyone seems to want to lift up one another. A rising tide raises all shops right? 👊
Hey James. Sorry to not have seen it. Your first post was an introduction post.. But maybe you can reintroduce, as your picking up to be around here again.
Wow! What a fantastic video! To see the progression that is made is really cool. My food Forest is about a year-and-a-half in so hopefully in a few years I'll be able to make a video just as beautiful.
Thank you my friend!
That’s awesome, the first few years are a lot of investing. But when is starts to really pay off... 💪
That was inspirational! Be proud about what you have accomplished! It must have been a lot of work. Impressed by how fast the trees grew up.
Thank you lynxki!
It was a decent amount of work, but I love doing it cause it’s my passion. So it doesn’t feel like work 😁
That is amazing! Isn’t it such a wonderful feeling when you first plant something and a few years later how it grows with such grace? 😃 Such beauty!
Thank you kokibyivana! Yes it is, and it’s such a blessing to have the opportunity to do that. 👍😁
Awesome work. From nothing to this. You did it WELL ! That's a beautiful place you have construct.
I'm at Y1 in my gardens hope this will be beautiful & productive like yours. :)
Wish you the best !
Thank you Quelquun!
Year one is an exciting time. Know you get to design your future food selection and little mini paradise. Gardening is truly my passion.
I wish you the best also my friend. And happy harvests for your first year 😁
Love this video James! Seeing the building process is always so helpful! I especially like the positive quotes you have playing through the food Forrest progression! Thanks for sharing.
-phephe
Thank you Phephe! I had a blast making it. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for the kind words 😁
it is still a dream ATM and I hope and pray that it will happen but I am making connections now as opportunities presented themselves.
Thanks!@llfarms - I was looking for your comment: "Oh! I'm sorry I thought you were looking for some one to internship on land together, homesteaders discord would be" - yes, I am, but,