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Hi my name is Shahar, what's yours

I live in Seattle (in Ballard. Free Ballard! with the purchase of any Ballard of equal or lesser value) with my partner and their pets. I work from home at a terrible (small) tech company.

I bought some land on Whidbey Island, near the Greenbank post office, with the original intention of restoring a boat, and/or having workshop space. I've since developed a thought that permaculturing it would be a great idea/plan, but found that the timber was thick as the hair on the back of a dog, and for two years I chopped and I loggered, but I never got down to the soil. (that's a reference it's not true to reality)

I have had a driveway put in and had Professionals do site prep for a workshop building, and I bought one of those steel building kits (it's a nightmare, it's almost definitely not worth it, please ask me about it if you're thinking of buying one of these things) which exhausted all of my savings.

My near term plans for my property are to buy some kind of earth mover and use it to clear a bunch of space for gardens, septic systems, and a road to where the county is insisting my well has to be. If the land clearing goes well and I accumulate more savings, I will want to build a house, animal housing, fences, and possibly buy some of the neighbor's lands.

I've had a thought percolating that I feel like should be posted on here, hopefully someone can direct me to the correct forum, or maybe just tell me that I'm completely insane. Basically I was watching this guy on youtube -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLB00JHoTw1TeX82Qw8hoFLRJI89Us_jMw

He gets someone to give him a rotting pile of wood that used to be a boat, and he persuaded, I think, the same people to pay to truck the boat to his friend's yard where there's a workshop.
And then he cleans out the workshop and builds a shed for the boat and buys at least a hundred thousand dollars worth of lumber, I think mostly with patreon money, and films the whole process of rebuilding the boat, with some volunteers and some permablitz/barn raising type parties. And it's not super clear what the arrangement is with the friend who's yard and workshop this is, but definitely part of it is that he watches their animals when they're away and he does some small woodworking projects for them, and I suspect that the major insane cleanout/cleanup of the workshop was part of the deal.
And the thing is that I have some land and a workshop, and like, I would happily buy more tools for my workshop for someone who wanted to come work on some crazy project on my land, in exchange for like, doing some clearing on the land and watching my animals when I'm away (I don't have animals because I don't have anyone to watch them when I'm away, and also because I don't have enough cleared land to put up a fence) and maybe helping with some of my permaculture projects.

And I'm wondering if there's like, a matchmaking service/forum for people who have resources that could be used to complete projects and people who have the time/energy/drive/projects/desire to speedrun some SKIP badges. Does this belong in the landshares forum? Sort of?

If you have a van build out or a car restoration or a boat restoration or a boat you want to build from scratch or a bb that you'd really like to complete that requires like, a bunch of space, or a workshop, on Whidbey Island (the best place on earth), let me know! Especially if you want to like, help me build a cabin or a road or a septic system to make your projecting more comfortable/easier.

All the best anyway, happy to be here where I can get envious of all y'alls permaculture projects and installations.

Welcome, Shahar. It sounds like you have some great possibilities where you are, and a lot to offer to someone who needs the space (and a beautiful place to do it in).

Welcome to Permies.

I hope to see you in future threads!

having had boats, I can report an old saying about the price of wooden boats: "a wooden boat is always free" - so if you are thinking of wooden boat building in that shed, keep this in mind. Though, if you are thinking of charging rent to wooden boat builders, I think that could be profitable perhaps.

Welcome to permies, from your neighbour to the south here in OR haha.  It is common for people to rent out rooms in their houses for artists to have studios, workshops, etc. so I don't see why not find someone to work on their builds on your land.  You'd have to make sure they have a place to do it, like in that video, but the Pacific NW is known for creative share arrangements so I think it could work.

oh yeah, and if you are going to let someone do projects on your land, become at least slightly acquainted with the US Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA). You are liable for environmental problems on your land. If your tenant dumps old solvent out behind the shed and it contaminates the groundwater (or even MIGHT contaminate the groundwater), and the Fed discovers it, they will make you clean it up. You can sue the tenant to try and get some money back.

Better is to always have a safe and well-managed way to handle wastes that you control and can instruct tenants how to use, so no problems come up later.