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, upland and waterfowl. I've caught all the a Rocky Mountain salmonoid/trout except the Arctic Grayling.
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