Fred Frank V Bur

Thanks for that post, it is a reminder to me that I should post the email address to reach me, which I often forget to do. But to contact me any should mention this forum site for me to know who it might be, that I should answer. vegrox@aol.com

I am just posting because if you do get an answer for this area, where I am as well, I will be really interested, so I am following. I am planning for planting and growing a lot for any of the needed things that are possible, that is enough to survive with, where I can ultimately be.

I am a man that has been vegan nearly ten years, I am counting, it is still over nine, but I had stopped getting meat more years before that. Since early in 2016 I have been using the way of whole food from plants, that means for me there are just foods from the plant kingdom. I am 66 years old, but youthful in activity. I am in California.

I used to be quite the food junkie. But change is possible, at any age. I was already an older man, over a few years I gave up drinking, then meat, then any animal products, and then went WFPB.

This approach might be a bit better for me as I see it used in a similar way by others. I am looking for any I can join with for simpler living on land away from city life, I am vegan and hope to see others understanding the same values, where everything that can be grown at the location for what is needed would be, I would bring seeds and take part in growing it all. I am single and male without anyone to bring, I have looked online for something right for this for many years, while I have been online, and I am 66 already, but with the healthy ways I have I am really able, and would not rather be doing any other things, except for maybe writing and telling stories as I am quite prone to do. I would be doing such with free time left then.

C Oakes wrote:Here are some photos of the homestead

I do think any images shared of the place ready for who would come to join in working at growing things especially with natural farming ways would tend to be persuasive.

I have real obstacles, like a need for resources I do not have, and knowing any change to a new location would be such investment that I would not keep trying other choices if that which I would come to was not what I would stay with. I want to be really sure, and the further away it is from my location in the US, the more critical I would be of it. This you have described involves much that has to be thought out, but really quite the way how I would want things where I would be. Where growing in a greenhouse is needed, enough space for all that would be needed should be thought of. There are things I do not think I would have thought of, like putting on an additional room to the greenhouse. Where anything growing wildly is edible that can be foraged, I would want to try each recognized while taking any sparingly, keeping any seeds that come with what is foraged to replant, and leaving enough for the wild plants of the ecosystems to still thrive. Without using crops, some wild growing plants that grow compatibly are useful for growing what will be needed among them. It should be clear I mean what will grow apart from inside a greenhouse.

I will prefer off-grid living for simplicity I see is of great value, with contributing to less demands. Growing as much as they can will be important, I would be with any doing so with what I can do for that  I am in California, I might not find any doing anything like this closer than in Washington, so I have some interest.

Getting food where it is growing is really the best way of all to get food. And for making a meal to have ready, I would use some pasta, whole grain would be a good idea, or brown rice, or potato, that would be cut up, to have cooked, with some leafy greens, several other cut up vegetables, some of different colors of the rainbow, added to it, and some hummus and medium salsa added to it finally. There would be seasonings available then. I doubt there would be anyone not liking it. If one wants meatlike texture in it so much, some seitan or some jackfruit can be included in it. I don't think many would think that essential, still. Of course, having lots of things growing for food will be very desirable.