Logan Albright

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I have narrated the video "tour", here is the link:
Homestead Narrated Tour

As I mention in the video, keep in mind that 95% of the trees were planted in May of 2023 or even later and the video was taken in October of 2023; so the food forest won't look impressive yet. Also there is so much space left to put in understory plants throughout the property.

Brody Ekberg wrote:The best I have ever felt physically, emotionally and spiritually was during and after an long, intense diet that we did together. Unfortunately, she did not have the same experience. To sum it up, she had a lot of health issues that doctors were not helping us figure out so I took it into my own hands. I researched and designed a “detox” diet that consisted of nothing but liquids for 2-3 weeks (broth, vegetable juice and tea without caffeine or sweeteners). Then from there we reintroduced some fats and proteins, some non starchy vegetables and small amounts of whole fruits. I felt like I was floating through life, loving everything and everyone and smiling constantly. Nothing hurt and I looked better than ever before. She felt tired, cold, deprived of all enjoyment and resented the entire experience…



That would be considered a reducing, cold diet; which is awful for anyone with deficiency or cold and especially bad for someone with both (from her symptoms it sounds like the exact wrong diet for her). That could be good for someone with excess and heat; at least for a while but too much reducing and cold foods ultimately is bad for everyone in the long run; same with any of the extremes. Research what Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ayurveda recommends and see experienced TCM or Ayurveda or Holistic doctors. The book The Herbs of Life by Lesley Tierra has good info about diet as do many other TCM books. I would get as many sources of info as you can because there can be contradictions. There is plenty of "free" sources found online but that's up to you whether you're ok with that; at least it can be a good first step to find what you like before purchasing.
1 year ago
Almost everybody has strong imbalances. This makes it so that almost everybody has unconscious and uncontrollable reactions. Depending on the imbalances of each person in a couple, the evolution of the relationship issues will vary in speed and intensity. People in the past divorced less frequently; I believe it wasn't only due to stronger religious beliefs but mostly due to better quality food and a better diet. If you want to stay together both of you will need to get onboard with becoming more balanced (research TCM dietary info, go to TCM doctors, meditate, do qi gong/yoga, be more in nature, etc.). If you don't stay together I would still recommend you try to become more balanced and look for someone whom is more balanced. Two very imbalanced people can stay together forever if the imbalances are such that issues don't build up; but I think that's not very common plus people's imbalances morph over time (and even over seasons). I do believe though that everything works out for the best, even if at the time it seems not to be true. Good luck.
1 year ago

we have family in the area that is tied into the "Good Ole Boys" network. While it probably sounds horrible how local will buy and sell to local, having grown up in rural Florida, I can tell you horror stories of "yankees"



Well then you're all set with regards to getting land. Now you just have to select the "right" kind of permies for your community.
1 year ago
Youtube video tourish

Here is a link to a video "tour" of the property. I took this video mostly to be able to look back at years later to see the difference; I've done that before and it's nice to compare. That being said the video isn't a great tour video but it's all I have before the freeze; touring right now would be great for the garden bed and barrel growth that has occurred since but the rest would be mostly dormant.
I live in southern Georgia and my wife and I spent months in southern Alabama and southern Georgia looking for either raw land or a low cost home with some acreage. Unless prices have dropped in the past 2 years, I don't think your prices are accurate (you can't trust online listings, especially for land; and southeast Georgia seemed the hardest to find land). When we saw anything that seemed like a good deal and we tried to view them they were always SUPPOSEDLY under contract, already sold, off market, etc. One time we put an offer on a derelict house with 5 acres; the seller's realtor told us to offer much less than the asking price because it wasn't worth the asking price and we could still get it; we decided to offer much closer to the asking price but got no response. I found the seller's phone number, called them and found out they were never showed the offer. Time and time again things like this happened. Most land (especially large tracts) seems to be owned by family empires which all know each other and it tends to stay in their hands; I imagine much of the pricing is artificial for tax purposes maybe. Any land that was within the price ranges you listed were swamp land that you'd need to buy large acreage to get such pricing. The closest we found was in central Georgia and was 18 acres for $90k (and I'm not sure it was completely real because we didn't put an offer in). Nearly every realtor we dealt with was corrupt; both here in the south and in California when we sold our house. In California they never had real showings for our house; the few showings they got for our house were from thieves that they hired. The realtor would ask me to show the people around because she wasn't available; they would ask me to show them around outside and they would act interested in plants (even though it was obvious they knew nothing) while another car (or someone in the back seat) would come out after and go into the house. Many realtor offices were in on it together. It took me a month to figure it out. Ultimately I found a friend of the family who is a realtor and they got our house sold within one weekend. We've heard other similar stories to our own. I tell you these stories because hopefully it will help you be wary and not naïve like I was. Our debacle with the sale of our house helped us catch realtor after realtor after realtor while looking for property in the south. Overall extremely disheartening. Good luck.
1 year ago

Mark Ranfone wrote:Send me a video, kirkman9992@gmail.com



I'll put a video on youtube and I'll paste the link in this thread and will email you the link. That may take a few days. In the meantime I've attached a picture of the house. I forgot to mention in the original post (which I can't seem to edit) that the house has a large attached screened porch and an adjoining uncovered concrete patio which is good for grilling/etc or could easily be made into a greenhouse since the house provides two walls. Also the entire property is fenced; 6ft chainlink fence professionally installed in the front and around the neighbor, then 7-8ft tall field fence that I installed around the other 3 sides (this has kept the deer out which is essential and adding rabbit fencing at the bottom will now be easier and useful). All the fencing is 4-6 inches within the property, making it this properties' fence and not jointly owned which is great. The property used to be something like 6 or 7 acres but the original owners sold the back acreage; nothing is being done with the acreage and it belongs to the farmer whose house is about a 1/2 mile away; it's doubtful but possible that the acreage could be purchased in order to have a bigger homestead. However I think 2 acres is plenty to take care of for 2-3 people and in this climate it could provide most if not all of the food needed by those people. 3-4 crops can be gotten in a year due to the mild climate. Many plants can be grown in partial or full shade because of the abundance of sun/heat; and those things that are in the summer shade get winter light coupled with the mild climate make it so much grows in the fall/winter too. Of course there are challenges to this type of climate but every climate has challenges.
Coming Soon, a rural 2 acre permaculture property 5 miles outside of downtown Moultrie Georgia, currently planned to list at $179,000. It is in Zone 8b and gets an average of 50 inches of rain per year; with the main wet season during summer and another during winter but even the dry months average 2+ inches (this is of course pre-geoengineering ramp up). Over the past 20 months we've built 10 large garden beds right behind the house, created 19 irrigated circles with various fruit and useful trees/shrubs and have 95% of what we planted on auto irrigation (it would be easy to add more irrigation zones). There are 5 irrigation zones near the house utilizing a rainmachine 16 zone controller and there are 7 zones near the back acre utilzing a Hunter Pro-C expandable controller. There is still plenty of space within the circles for more plants and lots of space where more gardens/circles/plantings can occur. See attached jpg for an overall view, however there are many plants not listed, both in ground and in pots/barrels (also the trees are not that size, they are only 2ft to 8ft tall). If the price is right we can include almost everything we own since we're moving out of the country. This would include things like a 46" Craftsman PRO riding mower, mower pull cart, Champion rear tine tiller, lots of Dewalt tools, lots of tools for house/mechanical maintenance, lots of tools for yard/plant maintenance, 2 large fridge/freezer selectable deep freezers, 11 rack dehydrator, grow tent, 2 large led lights, nature's head composting toilet (we haven't used for #2), 100+ quart/half-gallon mason jars, 50+" flatscreen, pots, pans, dishes, sofas, etc., etc., etc.

The house has a brick facade, is 1800sqft with 3 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms, a living room, dining room, kitchen and a cement floor "workroom" plus a 1 car garage. The bad part is that the previous owner had left the house abandoned for a few years and during that time someone broke in and purposely flooded both bathrooms and the kitchen. (Therefore the sale would need to be cash because I'm not sure if banks will loan). The rest of the house is fine, we've had new carpets put in and other than right by the kitchen and by the master bathroom it's all fine. The floors in both bathrooms feel solid and so does the kitchen minus a bit of give near the sink; there is 2 spots in the master bedroom outside the master bathroom that are not load bearing (the bathroom floor being tile made is so that the water damaged just outside the doorway). It's just my wife and I (and 2 dogs) so we haven't prioritized fixing the floor; I had planned on doing that down the road.

To the south of our property is cattle grazing, to the west across the road is a strip of farmland used once a year for cotton, to the north is a neighbor, to the east is pine trees owned by those who have the cattle. The neighbors are fine/good; next door is a single mom with 2 young kids, after them is an older lady and her sheriff son, after them is a young couple with 3 kids (they have chickens and ducks and will be getting other animals); those are the only neighbors nearby. If there is interest I can upload a video of me walking around the property. I do "lazy" permaculture; I'm not a fan of keeping everything cut to the ground; I like letting weeds grow for the many benefits that they provide and because it's too time/gas consuming to clear everything. The pond is not completed; I've hand dug the general shape to about 2-3 feet down. I've started to hit heavy clay so I had planned on going deeper and taking the clay to seal the pond so that I wouldn't need to use a pond liner.

Let me know if you have any questions.