David Kunkle

Joshua Myrvaagnes wrote: I'd love updates from the original poster. . .

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Sorry for not returning to this thread faster. My sincere apologies.

My reasoning for inquiring into this line of questions was my attempt to understand how long it would take to grow the resources needed to make a home, and how large the area was needed so I could develop a plan. My hope is to help my children and their kids plant develop their intentional resources necessary for their own homes, and to provide guidance as needed when they are in need. So later as the resources are growing they can tend with their live stock learning polyculture as a practice, hopefully with enough land to make some forested groves surrounded by silvopasture for each of them to manage themselves.

I'm currently planning the main estate now and hoping to develop furthur plans for the necessary infrastructure for success, while also ensuring I can feed us when I reach retirement and can no longer perform the big labor tasks required for projects.

I like the idea of surrounding the wofati homestead with the forested areas, and the silvopasture outside surrounding the forest. Since it's my ideal area I would surround the property in a raised retaining wall with a dense thorny hedge wall to discourage predators, while provoding habitat for the wild and pollinators. And best of all privacy, productivity, pollination for the free cost of free fifty once established.

Hope this helps somehow.

Good luck

I've been attempting to figure this out myself, but since I grew up in Nevada and later Navy took me to San Diego I can't really picture what amount of time needed to grow my own home.

My working idea, atm;

If using softwoods;
      Pine as an example would it be possible to buy land, and then plant a sacrificial grove specifically for the building materials. If so what lead time we looking at in an approximation.

If hardwoods are needed;
    I have close to no hardwood experience father did cabinet carpentry that was all have retained from childhood observational learning.

If other materials are needed;
   In example, the wood duff, straw for building materials, or anything I've not seen from the books/kickstarter videos requirements etc.

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My thought here would be regardless whats on what property it would be helpful to understand the lead times so when doing estate planning we can plan groves for expansions or new buildings as children grow and need their own space/ family expansion.

My initial thoughts are at least a 5 if not 10 year lead time may be necessary if using only softwoods, but we could easily triple the time needed for using hardwoods. Is it possible to grow and use Bamboo for some of the material  as in the following image - < >. As I was able to pick up from the google and the rest of the interwebs some varieties of this black bamboo can grow to the 45 meter mark in a few years, and is used extensively in construction efforts. If bamboo is used with the lumber as an supporting material not a replacement would this speed up the investment time needed to cultivate the needed mass for the home?