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They arrived Sunday last week!
Erik Ven wrote:Niels,
While I agree with the previous comment for the most part, I would like to point out something that in my opinion has to come before that. You mentioned self-sufficiency. Here in the US (maybe other places too) it is understood as individual self-sufficiency. And yes, I guess technically it is not impossible but requires 100% of your time being solely dedicated to mere survival, not letting any time to enjoy some of the other aspects there are to life on this planet. Not to mention that even then you are straddling the line between survival and not.
So what you have to decide first is how you want to do it.
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Jim Fry wrote:Certainly, everything everyone has mentioned is important. Learn as many skills as you can, gather needed future tools, acquire knowledge, practice, practice, practice. Do all of that. Get as ready as you can for your new future life. It'll all make the doing easier.
But, once you get your land, or perhaps even better, before you acquire a particular property, ask the land what it wants. Does the land itself want to have happen what you are planning to do to it? Do the Nature Spirits and Faires and trees and plants want what you want? Consider if what you bring to a piece of soil will make it happy, just as you hope that earth will make you happy?
Jay Angler wrote: simple trailers, some which are home-built/upcycled
Jay Angler wrote: I'd say the key issue is whether or not family is on-board.
Jay Angler wrote: Is there no minimal size on that prohibition?
Mk Neal wrote: I used to have many clients who had been subsistence farmers.
Abraham Palma wrote:Hello, Niels,
I relate to the same eco-anxiety. But I take a different approach. My take is that staple crops require too much an investment, wish you have potatoes, wheat or whatever that fills the belly, it needs heavy equipment if you want it to be profitable.
If you remove staple food from the equation, then you don't need so much land. Maybe a middle sized house with a large backyard is enough. A friend has a small orchard and his market garden in a 250m2 property, the backyard being 100 m2 approximately. He also has a few laying hens. His production is rather low, he is not allowed to use irrigation from the well (cause the draught) and he didn't take any step for rainwater harvesting or graywater use. Had he that extra water and more time, I'd say he could feed eggs and vegs to his family for half of the year.
That said, if you really want to take the farming route, then I'd say that my family had been growing crops in a land that was 10 km away from the appartment, my grandfather and uncles commuted daily to work on the fields, mostly in their cars, but also by bus. Theft was always a concern, but being there every day helped. Guard dogs also helped. They had to park the tractor inside the tool shed every day. And they made a life like that, so it was feasible. The real problem was selling the product. Big distributors like Carrefour pay too low and demands quantity and timing, and co-ops, while paying better, sometimes weren't able to sell everything.
But if you want farm animals, then you really need to live nearby.
)), my chances of buying land (2-4 acres) and a renovation project/property together is going to be tough financially, but buying the 2 separately but close together is much more feasible, I was wondering whether this is also feasible from a practical point of view.
Almond Thompson wrote:Look what I found as well!!