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My wife and son and I live our days in tents and our little hand built cabin. We keep a tiny subsistence herd of sheep, milk, meat, wool, hides, and our ram has a pack saddle. We move our critters every single day with a whole tool box of herding tactics. Solar fence, tethers, human tended etc. We are sliding towards more nomadic living because we've done the sedentary homestead thing enough.
Anyone else out there moving around with a herd that keeps you alive? Its the closest thing to living wild without totally being a part of this culture as you can get these days, legally that is. We graze on friends land, acquaintance's, public and minor trespass and our own little plot which is mostly goldenrod pollinator meadow right now.
Also semi open to visitors or "farm" hands. But we are primitive here. No internet, screens, electricity except for a small battery refrigerator for warm months, plumbing etc. We cook 99.9 percent of the time with solar and fire, everyday. Water from a couple springs up here in the North Central Penna. mountains. We eat our animals and wild ones, roadkill, some hunting need be. We of course buy food from store but only if it is of high quality. No machines except for a pick-up. Hand tools for everything from haying to wood cutting.
We are open and looking to join and help out other communities as well. Sort of nomadic homesteading if you may. We have a myriad of skills from living this way  and from previous work experience.
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Welcome to permies, that is so neat that you've found a way to live in a more nomadic way, you are in good company with peoples of the world, both past and present, and hopefully future still.

Consider also posting in the experiences section, others may read in there and be interested in connecting.
 
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Good to have a reply and not a "like", honestly. There are a lot of people in the west full time nomadic with their own herds. The East not so much and I am not sure why. There is a lot of greenery and lands to explore.
I just am not super convinced a settled existence is everything. Movement is the original way before we even herded. I am not against subsistence agriculture, but I just don't think it is for me and my family. We'd like to maybe trailer our critters behind her little pick up and find communities to help out and then still be able to graze our little herd.
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