Bo7a

I bought some land and spent the last 3 years converting it into something usable for an intentional community.

Community I always thought the hardest part would be getting the land drilling a well sitting up solar etc. in fact, the hardest part is convincing people that you are serious about letting them come live on your land as long as they help work.

I’ve even taken to offering one dollar 99 year leases so that people could feel like they have some agency over the piece of land they choose to live on.

No bites yet

Or the existence of said election at all…

Three years in and our ‘self-sufficiency’ is limited to about 3 weeks of food per year if we relied on our own garden/forest 100% of the time for those 3 weeks. We don’t do that, but instead supplement with the garden and forest and learn more each year about what does well in our little spot.

I don’t say this to dissuade - but to make sure you set proper expectations. Self-sufficiency, even just for food, is a decade-long endeavor where you almost certainly will have to work some kind of job or have some income in the meantime.