I'm looking for homesteading folks in the Seatle region, anyone know the area?

So, I'd like to move up to the seattle, WA area and find a nice lot at least 1/2 acre, preferably 1 acre + and start a homestead there.

The problem is I don't want to end up in another suburb where neighbors are going to freak out if I apply some steer manure to my garden.

For me, heaven would be if I find neighborhoods filled with people like us, you know the homesteading types, with ducks, bee hives, tomatos growing everywhere, gardens, compost, chickens running around.  the kind of neighborhood where people understand the value of horsemanure!

Anyways, Zillow hasn't added the horsemanure per capita filter yet, so I was wondering if someone could point me to some towns, or specific neighborhoods, where there's both homsteaders and empty lots to build on.  Oh and it needs to be within1 hours drive of seattle

Ideas?

I’m in the Seattle area and I’m searching for the same thing. I would love to get a group of like minded people together to exchange ideas.

Welcome to permies Alisa, I think there are lots of NW folks who desire a space to homestead and do things in relative freedom.  They say that generally bigger areas are worse re. regulations, that smaller more rural towns are better.  The one thing though about Portland, and thus probably Seattle, is that there are so many challenges with tents on sidewalks and so forth that now adays neighbours don't even report little things as much, like steer maneuer fertilizer haha.  So in some ways we can hide behind the larger social challenges of urban life.  The problem is that there are still occasional busy body neighbours who will report, just less likely than it used to be because there are bigger fish to fry as such.