Hi Ryan, thanks for making an account!
There are a few different ways to get onto the land at Wheaton Laboratories. All of them involve a pre-req of listening to large numbers of Paul's
rantings podcasts.
Here are some threads you may find useful:
Deep Roots - Long Term Canvas is the program for those who are committed to a long term stay (assuming everybody keeps liking each other) and have some money to make it so.
Shallow Roots is a three year program with less of an initial outlay (and some ongoing costs - see the description in the thread).
Ant Village has even less initial outlay ($800) and either you incur ongoing "rent" costs or you win the competition (see thread for details) and you get to stay on the land you have made so very awesome.
It sounds like you have some very useful skills and I could see things working out beautifully. On the other hand, you should realize that the land is not much developed and thus not entirely safe for children. Of course, no place is entirely safe, for anybody, but my neighborhood doesn't have cougar! If you've been in colorado, you probably already know about such things.
So, get going on the whole podcast thing! (If you haven't already.) Somewhere around here is a thread where podcasts were favorited, but I couldn't find it, and I need to get back to work. . . .