Southwest NB, Canada

My wife and I have more land than we need.

We have also some under-utilized facilities.

We are hoping this is an opportunity for someone to become like-minded neighbors keen on mutual aid.

We have settled on around 70 acres of prime mature woodlot and lots of brookfrontage. We have built a log cabin, a woodworking shop, and a sawmill/outbuilding assembly pavilion with ample solar power. These resources could be of use to build a home of your own for example.

We are fully off grid and about 1k off the road, but there is plenty of build able land available, including some along a public road with no traffic other than visitors to our land.

We have a lot to offer in terms of woodlot, forestry equipment, the sawmill and wood shop, log building skills, timber framing skills, firewood from sawmill offcuts, etc.

So at this point, after building for a few years and getting our infrastructure and equipment dialed in, we feel comfortable seeing if we can find mutually beneficial arrangements to share our land or even just get good neighbors who could be of mutual aid. I can think of a lot of different arrangements that would work such as renting to own a parcel on our land, work swaps for land, etc.

It’s a lot of land to work alone, and I am realizing I cannot alone scrape the surface of what this land has to offer.

Our land is private and off the main road, so we have a lot of freedom in what we do with it.

We already have good neighbors with a thriving barter exchange for all sorts of things: garden bumper crops, heavy equipment, labor for builds, lumber, etc.

We would like to foray into keeping birds and meat rabbits as well next year.

We would be interested in some suggestions about how to work together. Potentially hosting a van lifer with skills and labor to swap for what they need, potentially a rent to own buildable land subdivided off our plot, perhaps host someone who wants to live in a yurt and perhaps use that as a stepping stone to something more permanent… the possibilities are endless.

Let’s start a conversation about what it is you need, what we can offer, and what you can offer, and I bet something could work out.