posted 7 months ago
The folks at the homesteading Reddit steered me here and I just wrote this up for my profile. It's a fair snapshot of me- though I can't seem to get any actual snapshots loaded. I did list my Instagram on my profile here for those wanting to see a face behind the words.
I founded my off-grid self-sufficient Montana Homestead in 2005 on neglected timberland and mining claims at 5800'. I was the first to live in this valley since the miners in the 1880's.
I've been paid to fight wildfires, write articles, and cook at four star restaurants. Now I sell firewood and produce I've grown to pay my taxes and cell phone which are my only expenses.
I built my home myself with logs and rocks from my property, it's four stories, in-the-round piece-en-piece timber frame. The south side has an attached 37 X 13" greenhouse and the third floor is a 13" X 20' sunroom in which I grow veggies and flowers year round.
I have active and passive solar heating with two Fisher woodstoves supplying the rest. I have PV solar, two wind turbines, and micro hydro.
I have a handful of chickens now but I have also had dairy and meat goats, ducks, and geese in the past. I've made my own butter and cheese.
My garden is 80" X 300' and I grow strawberries, peas, rhubarb, raspberries, gooseberries, Egyptian onions, green onions, garlic, chives, horseradish, sunchokes, lovage, day lilies, asparagus, mint, hops, potatoes, kale, and others.
My next project is a little finca in the mountains of Puerto Rico where I grow oranges, bananas, coffee, papaya, passion fruit, breadfruit, orchids and others.
I've been a libertarian/An-cap activist for more than two decades and was an early member of The Free State Project before opting out after the vote went to NH.
I've been a New England Transcendentalist (like Thoreau) for more than thirty years but play with Eris and Discordianism.
I've been active in the Kink community for over a decade. I've gone to Dark Odyssey and Kinkfest several times. Ask for my Fet username if you want to know more
I've followed the Burning Man community since '92 and have ran a kink camp at the big Burn and regionals.
I started shooting competitively at 12 and have harvested most North American large game animals.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. Ralph Waldo Emerson