Greetings, I'm been on permies for years and have learned so much. We purchased land and a farmhouse in Northern Maine with hopes to attract like-minded people who love winter. After two years of seeking, including advertising on IC.ORG, we haven't been successful, however we have been successful in developing beautiful relationships with people who want to settle in rural Peloponnese, Greece. That's a pretty big change, but we tried it out living a few months in rural Greece and we love it. We qualify to move to Greece with my husband's social security so we are making the move and starting a new life building a food forest in the mountains, and thinking about following the idea I found on permies for building underground [https://undergroundhousing.com/]. If we can manage to meet code for earthquake safety, I think this will be an amazing way to live in the mountains.
Anyhow, all that to explain why we are selling the property we have grown to love here in Northern Maine. Honestly if we could have found a few people to join us here, we would have loved to have stayed. This property is so beautiful. It's just not sustainable for me and my husband alone, especially since we need to follow the lead of people who have more developed building and homesteading skills.
What we love most is the logging trail through the woods where we snowshoed every day throughout the long winter. Also we love looking out at the pond and seeing something different every day. Sometimes swallows flew over the pond catching insects, other times the moose fed in the pond, sometimes a blue heron flew up into the spruce trees to nest, sometimes we watched otters play and fish jump.
The home has a liberator rocket stove [https://rocketheater.com/] installed, and it works great once we got the chimney to the right height and a vacu-stack chimney cap installed. Here is the listing for the house if you're interested.
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/6-Vaillancourt-Hill-Rd-Cyr-Plt-ME-04785/115095906_zpid/
Oh and we had a permaculture plan written up for the property, which was focused on placing some domes and a sauna on the grounds for short term rentals to finance the building of infrastructure. Let me know if anyone is interested in those plans.
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