afira ratliff

Dangit I missed this. Any way this can still happen this coming weekend or next?

hello!
this kind of situation is exactly what my husband and i are looking for. we have been dreaming of making a place like this ourselves but it is really hard.
my husband has been doing woodworking, leather working, and can fix anything and is excellent with groups and teaching others.
i have a lot of experience of working with animals and can raise and care for all kinds of animals, and have a dream of making and tending poly-culture gardens and orchards and animals.

we are currently in the PNW in Washington, have full time jobs but are not getting anywhere except taking all the money we make and giving it to rent and bills. we are so tired of this and would love to be useful, helpful, and do work that makes a difference for our planet and our community we become part of.
we are hard workers, and can come up with solutions to many problems and would work our butts off if we were only  given a  chance to do something really worth while, like what it sounds like you are doing.

we would love to talk to you guys if it sounds like we might fit in.
thank you for posting this, it sounds awesome!

Oh my goodness this sounds exactly like what my husband and I have been looking for!

We are a couple that have been trying to get our credit  score up so that we can get our first place but we have no help as our families are poor, and it's been very hard, even tho we have no bills but student loans now. It has been our dream if having an off grid permaculture farm for so many years. We basically make all our own stuff and have jobs that could be done over the net.

We are 42 and 45 and very interested in earth ship and strawbale respectively and are currently in North bend Washington. We would love to start a discussion with you.

Thank you. --afira and grizz

Awesome ideas thanks so much. I refuse to try and buy some piece of labd that will make me a slave even longer. We moved yo the PNW cuz we live it here, everythin but the prices, but there must be some way to afford something. Throwing away 1200 a month on rent means in 5 years throwing that instead on our iwn land, we can have it paid off asap. I come from a rural family, so I understand raising all kinds of animals, we just need a start. I have no idea where to advertise our desire for land other than going through a real estate agent. Any ideas there?

so my hubby and i are in our early 40's, after a life of utter poverty....we have clawed our way to decent jobs...and all our bills and things paid off...

so what is first when we finally get that piece of land? (lets assume obviously a well, and a house are taken care of because we can do those things if nothing else)

basically, we are done with scraping by....done.....we will be busting ass to pay off the piece of land we find ASAP.......we want to of course make a living....but we are of course, as many other poor people....kinda tired of getting our hopes up and are just kinda done..... so as long as we can make it on our own piece of paid off land....thats all we need.

so what comes first? do we put in chickens and a huge garden? is there any special place that people use to find great land deals??? do you go straight for hugelculture? since there will probably be a lot of brush clean up? or cows first to get some manure going?

basically we have been active medieval re creationists for so long, we can do it all...house building....soap making, cheese making, i make salves and tinctures, we are capable of doing it all..we just need a place to start.

also being near seattle, ugh the prices for land here.....i dont want to spend the rest of my life being a slave to pay off this land.....maybe we will have to go elsewhere?

wow that looks like an amazing area to be in! can anyone tell me how the prices for some land to start our pwn permaculture place would be out there??? its so expensive in washington state....im not sure our dreams will come true up here.....and i refuse to buy land in a desert area.

im in north bend....its not so close but at least not as far as some. hubby and i are almost able to pay off our credit card debts and start looking for a piece of land of our own! im so excited i cant wait to get started.......

i will also add..the reason cheese tastes so much better in europe as opposed to america ( if you havent been trust em here) is because they make cheese in copper pots.....its naturally antibacterial....and is for some odd reason not legal here..so do it.....youll thank me.......copper kettles....wooden spoons......natural woods for presses and things...dont make a great food product taste like bleh because you used plastics and crap.

make a decent cheese press...different pressures are used to make different cheeses..it makes a difference.....heres a real nice one that is easy to make and and easy to change the amount of force you apply to your cheese...

http://www.thecheesemaker.com/products/Dutch-Style-Cheese-Press.html

excellent thanks! seattle is very close for us. what i am really needing is affordable..hands on training on how to make a straw bale house for us...

and the main questions we have are how to make a foundation.....and how to do the floors and roof..we would like a living roof as it looks pretty awesome..and looks like it would be more insulative than a ..say metal roof....

but anyway.....i see people posting tons of ideas on how to do their houses and just come up against so many problems or bad designs......i dont want that to happen to us...i figure if i start learning now.....when we finally get a piece of land and start building.....we will at least have a good design ready to go