Glen Patterson

I have moved a couple times since the start of this project. Will I be able to update my shipping address prior to the shipping of the physical DVDs?

I’ll be in Idaho for the next week as I drive through looking for land that I can purchase for my off grid homestead. I drove in from Montana and am starting out at Bonners Ferry and will be traveling south on Highway 95.

If anyone knows anyone that is selling 10 acres of remote timbered property that has a year round water source (spring, creek, well) that would work for an off grid homestead with garden and animals, please let me know. I can do around $3,000/acre. Slightly more if it has everything.

Please PM me if you know of anyone!

I built up dozens of tiny residual income streams. I had about $1500 per month coming in from residual income streams. In other words, I could do utterly nothing and my bank account would gain $1500 per month. I could go sit on a boat, out in the ocean for ten months with no connection to the internet or anything and come back to find about $15,000 in my accounts.

I'm fairly new to the forums but I'd like to know about your setup here. To get info from someone who has actually done this is worth a bizillion times more than a google search on the subject. Do you go into detail about this anywhere else that I can review and catch up on?

I was wondering if there are any homesteaders out there that live in Washington or Idaho that can speak to their experience in homesteading in their state.

I am interested in purchasing a few acres with lots of trees and a creek, off grid with solar and build a earthbag (or similar type construction) home, do some aquaponics, green house gardening, a few animals. I'd like to know if there are any pitfalls or headaches people have had to deal with in regards to their state or county that would be prudent for an aspiring homesteader like myself to be aware of prior to making a purchase.

I currently live in Colorado and it's a real pain (translation: expensive) when it comes to water rights and building permits for "alternative" construction types. I'm fairly sold on the pacific northwest region of the US and I'm leaning towards Idaho because I have been told that most counties don't give you a hard time regarding building permits for alternative building types, also water seems to less of an issue (regarding state or local government red tape). You can collect rainwater use a creek or stream if it is on your property without worry. But this is only hearsay and I don't know anyone that has personally dealt with this in Washington or Idaho. It should be noted that I have only enough money to purchase the land. I sold everything I own to pay off debt and save up a little money to buy the land. I don't have thousands of dollars set aside to immediately start building anything. So I see myself camping on the land in the beginning. One of the main reasons I want to go with earthbag is the low cost. Time and labor I have... money I don't. So things like taxes and red tape fees are very important to me.

Your personal experience and recommendation would be appreciated if there is anyone out there.