Reading all the replies and posts of all you young folk is invigorating and encouraging.
Since before your age I’ve wanted to live a self-sufficient life style, but life, family and obligations got in the way.
The following is a bit self serving but I’m laying it out...
So I find myself a 64 y/o disabled widow, retired/retiring RN, in 2.5 acres of wooded mountain side in NW North Carolina where everything is either very steep, boggy or both. Living in an old and badly aged mobile home, leaky in many ways ;)
I started raising chicken this last spring.
I’m living on social security and knowing it will never be enough. Trying to establish sustainable self-sufficient living environment but let mired by my disability. Trying to learn more and willing for anyone to use my site for building and demonstrating (and I’ll learn) sustainable shelter, food, energy, and land management that can maintain and be maintained by someone my age or older with moderate disability.
This too is a significant need in these mountains. The aging community has no where to go but to their kids in Florida because they were told social security would be enough and it’s not, not by a very long shot. Many of us could easily be called disabled but can still manage a BTE garden and small live stock if helped with creating the proper environment.
