Fantastic! first post!!

+1

THANK YOU SO MUCH for providing this for FREE and not trying to sell me anything!

Hey!! that ugly blue thing in the last vid looks alot like MY TENT and I happen to be as proud of it as you are your yurt

Hey John - welcome to TOA.

I have lots of questions and only watched the first and last vid - so maybe the water question is covered.

1) where is the septic?
2) where is the garden?
3) where is the water?

nice deal for yurt - $5600

but for most folk to buy 3 acres - anywhere from 10 - 60K plus a yurt - plus not having a way to make money - or get their kids to school - and provide medical care - not a very realistic solution, but your timing is good as i don't think much time is left before we all are living in ugly blue tents

'bout time you showed up dude. Good to hear from you again.

Good hearing from you, John.

Keep em coming.

Thanks folks...hard to post on a lot of forums w/ my Droid, so generally I have to wait to get to a hotspot.




No septic...humanure composting...and because I am by a stream, I am doing it with closed but vented plastic containers.

Which brings me to the garden...aside from some test potatoes, there is none until next year when I will put up a greenhouse...which will then be where the compost will go...so at no point will it reach the water...which is about 200 ft away anyway, but I'm being really cautious.



Yep...I was lucky...but I also lived my life without a lot of the things regular people engage in: no wife, kids, new cars, mortgages, large pets, etc.

Life is one big trade-off. Because I can live without a lot of the modern infrastructure, I may have a head start on making it though the bottleneck...but I may end up taking a bullet for that success.

In my new area there is a wonderful and friendly community, many of whom practice off-grid living and could be labeled "doomers". I am getting to know them and I stand ready to help them when needed...and vice versa, it seems.

yep and surprises

good luck john!