Hi! My parents and I (late 60s, late 30s) are attempting to build a homestead on our 35 acres of mostly crosstimbers woodland. We’ve lived here for 30 years and my grandfather did some farming on the garden plot so we have some old rusty equipment laying around for that. Right now we are trying to find a way to build houses for ourselves that are better than the old trailer we live in now. We have zero money. I am too sick to work (autoimmune) and dad is retired from a low paying job and mom is about to retire from a low paying job. We are looking at cob, cordwood, etc. and we believe we can source most of the materials from the property. We have tons of eastern red cedar and Oklahoma red clay. I thought we had good sand but it is too fine to use in cob. Would be great for mudcrete and mortar though. We don’t have wheat but we have Johnson grass that did well in a clay and grass mud pie I made. We also don’t have rocks for a foundation so we are looking at urbanite. But basically, I’m here to learn everything I can about building from the land!
