New to Permies!

Hello hello! My name is Lindsey, and just joined the Permies crew.

Current life situation - my partner and I travel around in our self built bus. Bummer it's a diesel engine, but super awesome that everything else runs on solar. We love building, creating, gardening, and generally being outdoors. We talk and daydream all the time about our dream homestead, and last year we took our first step into really exploring that world. We relocated to Alaska from Florida and spent and entire summer learning how to feed ourselves from the ocean, collecting and harvesting, and cooking wholesome food on a small island with no ready access to quick food or grocery options.

After AK, we worked a sugar beet harvest and have now relocated to western Montana for awhile. We are working within our professions (massage therapist and mechanic) to :hopefully!: invest in land back in Alaska within the next 2 years.

We're really diving in to education right now. Finding community, learning and growing as individuals, and just doing our best to build our vision for the future. Hopefully with a snazzy cordwood home near the ocean. 🤞🏼

Welcome, Lindsey!! What an awesome ride! But your, diesel may not be a bad thing. You might be able to convert it it to biodiesel, or build an oil processing thing on a trailer, to allow you to use old cooking oil from fast food joints & restaurants. They might even pay you to take it away.

Lindsey, welcome to the forum!

It sounds like you are living an idyllic lifestyle and learning at the same time.

Be sure to tell us more and ask a lot of questions!

Welcome to Permies! Sounds like an awesome plan.

Hi Lindsey! What a fabulous adventure!

And what Carla said about biodiesel. Though setting up a biodiesel still would probably have something of a learning curve, a diesel vehicle is easier to make green than a regular petrol vehicle.

Hi everyone. Just signed up today to start my research. My hubby and I are both 41, and we are going to be both retired in exactly 1,005 day! We are going to try and move to Cordova, Alaska. We hope to buy at least 5 acres of land, on a higher elevation, with southern light exposure, and build a monolithic dome home. That is the plan at least.

Our long term goal is to establish a completely self-sustaining home for our 3 nieces. Our planet is not healthy, and most people are not paying enough attention. We would like to use both solar and wind energy, collect water, not waste water, grow 75% of fruit and vegetables we eat, and build an very comfortable heated chicken coop with a greenhouse attached for the hens.

I would like to lean on this community to help me get my priorities straight for our future plans. Our budget is comfortable, but I have no clue what is absolutely essential for our future homestead. I would like to place the must-haves at the top of my budget…keeping the luxuries near the bottom of the list. We will continue to have income after we retire, but I much rather not have a mortgage.

Thank you for your time and help. Please call me Bee 🐝