Well, considering we started this place with only $40,000, that would be a real windfall! We'd have built a bigger passive solar heated house, one floor, added solar water and electric, and built really solid infrastructure for the animals, like concrete floors in the barn! And made a really well built driveway all the way to the barn. That would kill the $100K in 1983 $$....
You are in New England? We currently live in Colorado but New England states are on our list of options, especially New Hampshire and Southern Maine. I'd love to connect about how homesteading is in that area, I have a feeling it would bring much different challenges than warm, dry southern Colorado 😊🙏Wow inspiring @goldenoakfarm! Thanks for your comment.
Yes, Western Mass. I don't know anyone in either state, so can't speak for them. Mass probably has lots of restrictions, especially compared to @papa-pepper and @mountainjewel 's areas.
My sister lives in Farmington NM so yup, very different from here.
The area I live in is rather unique, there being only 2 - 3 others like it in the country. An ancient north-south valley of great fertility with a river down it, college towns in it, and a different sort of people populating it. Makes for an interesting place to live.
But like all things in life, there's the good and the bad.
yes i have some friends who do it in maine, they love it there. too cold for us though with our garden/food forest based visions.@thetreeoflife
and we have basically no restrictions and low low taxes here. it's all that give and take! what are your priorities... finding a place that fits that best.
Here in Colorado we can, with greenhouse growing, grow food almost year round. Our concern with northeast US is that we would be losing that ability.
That's good to know. Love the food forest idea, btw. I had never heard of it before steemit, and it sounds just so cool.
Then... I love trees so there's that 😂