Ryan Adams

Thanks for the responses. I am trying to get out the door right now, so I will be brief and try to respond more a little late as needed.
I am aware it's a difficult task, and I might just be going to vacation and move into a city and have a piece of land in the country for a year or two down the road.

As for my weather experience, I don't have a lot, but I went to Quebec last winter and went hiking in the snow in zero degrees F. I had to leave around the New Year because I couldn't work in Canada. However, I enjoyed the weather and still wanted some more time in the cold. Beyond that the worst weather I have been in was Hurricane Michael in Panama City. I know that's not a cold test, but the challenge in both situations interests me.

Also, I tried to contact the people from previous posts about homestead open to others in Maine, but I didn't get a response and the threads and users for the threads seem inactive. Are there active homesteads in Maine looking for people. It might not works for me, but I like to learn the area and at least help out for a while. I will go through workaway.info for some experience, but would interested in possibly helping out folk if that is the best I can do up there for now.


Thanks, Ryan

I am looking to head up to Maine in a few days to try to find land that I can build on before winter and I'm interested in having the most meaningful trip possible on my way up there. I am aware that this is a difficult task, but I am willing to suffer through the winter with a minimal shelter built around a rocket mass heater. I prefer Maine because the land is cheap, I qualify to teach and I am up for a winter challenge. I can afford to spend upwards of 10K on land, but would prefer to spend closer to 5K. Without a job at the moment, I'm not really open to financing, but if I can get a teaching job or work on computer programming to work remotely then my price range could change if the land was better or in a community of like minded individuals. So, my first question...

Question 1: What is the best place to buy cheap land in Maine with limited building restrictions... hopefully close to a population center with work?


Additionally,  I have worked a little with the Internet of Things to look into automation of tasks for farming and with rocket mass heaters. I use a RaspberryPi, but also have an Arduino and an Espruino (Javascrip and the Internet of Things. I would like to help people with similar interest on my way to Maine, but I have to improve my situation along the way because all these unknown make for an incredible difficult task. While I don't think I can work on it much on the way up there, my teaching has left off with the use of RaspberryPi's and MITs Scratch program to create simple robotics race courses. Having worked in Texas, where test scores are the center of teaching focus I only managed to work on this in my Robotic Club for students. If I can get back to this, I would like to like to build out robotics race courses that relate to disaster relief and build stories around them that can be used as educational content. That could lead me back into teaching or into a computer programming job and I would be interested in passing my experiences on to others. I would like to meet members of the permaculture community that have more knowledge then I do about coding, the extent of my knowledge is being an avionics tech in the Marine Corps, Austin Community College, meetups and what I have the opportunity to apply in teaching... I will be traveling with the equipment I listed above as well as temperature sensors (up to 500 Celsius for RMHs), solenoid valves (irrigation, etc.), assorted sensors and soldering equipment to put it together. Also, my welder had a bunch of scrap lexan (airplane window quality plastic), so I'll be bring that with me. I can give a little away if working on IoT projects, but I need to keep some for windows. So,...

Question 2: What are the best places to stop and learn about permaculture on my way from Texas to Maine? I would be willing to participate in hackathons or simply exchange knowledge with folks along the way.

Thank y'all for your consideration and I look forward to working this out with any questions or suggestions that folks might have.