https://life.indiegogo.com/fundraisers/alaskan-adventure-for-two/x/10118162
We are a young, creative, energetic couple who have been searching for some time for both an advantageous piece of vacant Alaskan property, and the resources to construct our dream of living minimally in an efficient tiny house. We’re all too familiar with living in crammed quarters, as it’s pretty much what we’ve amounted to for the majority of our relationship, and we’ve come to prefer it.
Our decision of making a return to nature was born out of our desire to escape the cityscape and live deliberately as part of building a much greater relationship with the world around us. We’ve come to understand how we’d like to raise a family in the future with self-sufficiency and eco-friendly sustainability being the foundation for the lifestyle change that we are desperate for. With few strings attached to our current place of residence in Portland, Oregon, we are finally reaching a place of financial independence where this homesteading Alaskan dream might soon become a reality. We’ve really only ever considered Alaska as the place where we’d like to put down roots and, at some point, begin raising a family.
The irony of asking others for help, while trying to become self-sufficient, is something we both recognize. But unlike some of our heroes, Henry David Thoreau, Dick Proenneke, and others, we have the opportunity to share our journey with like-minded people through social media capturing step by step our successes and failures. We will be setting up a private YouTube channel with weekly updates that will show our process moving from the busy city life of Portland, Oregon to a small farmstead in remote Alaska. Once there, we will be illustrating each challenge we face and new skills we obtain. This is what we have to offer to anyone willing to help us achieve our modern day adventure (click the link at the top to contribute). Eventually, we plan to congregate our footage to produce a documentary.
Energy efficiency, respect for the land and animals around us, as well as care and concern for the people around us, all falls under a moral concern that we share in having social accountability for how we are choosing to live. We are attempting to reduce our waste and manage our resources more thoughtfully and responsibly in our daily lives.
Thank you for taking the time to read this and hear us out!
