I live on the NW part of the state. It's purdy country but the growing season is relatively short lived. Planting typically starts the second week of May and by June the lettuces have already bolted and turned bitter. Most other things seems to grow fine. I catch water off my roof mostly in May and June and use it as a supplement for watering or ICE. It's always best to have a full pantry because you never know what the winter months will be like. I was a East coast city guy who got suckered into coming out here by a good looking lady.
You can also sculpt the landscape in your vicinity (Swales, ponds, plantings) to keep what water you do get to stay on the land, longer. The thing about the dry country in the American west is that it still gets precipitation, plus the good sun that you get makes building an almost net-zero heating and cooling system. My (poor) memory of the Dakotas geology is there are lots of sedimentary formations (clay and shale) that make road (and other) construction pretty tricky. The arid/semi-arid climate adds to the problem, because when it does rain, there's a tendency for things to slip and slide away.
I think he is doing a real decent job. He is thinking about things people will regret thinking about if problems develop. Do not blame this man for choosing not to be a shallow lotus eater.
The area you have outlined in blue is literally called the bad lands 😅 much of the Dakotas down through nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma i would call the great planes though many people who live in these regions would consider themselves in the "Midwest" much of sd can have snow all the way into June! Though it doesn't stick around. There are actually a number of people who move to the center of the state in order to get away from people. It pretty much is the middle of nowhere. Definitely have a very sturdy green house and a lot of preps if you choose to go here.
Well I'll take the Midwest ag over cityscape pop density any day and to be honest I don't think too many in the Midwest care as we like having open spaces. Run off is not that bad because all the farmers I know are careful with spraying as the chemicals are too expensive to have it float down river. From what I've seen the suburban is worse as they over spray to grow grass
@@jesshorn257 are you from there, Jess? The winters are (actually) often quite bitter cold. I will check the definition of 'bitter cold' ('cuz maybe -20/30 F below isn't bitter cold, strictly speaking, lol). North Dakota was colder, but dang. SDakotans used to have to read "Giants in the Earth", story of Norwegian immigrants, how they'd sometimes freeze to death just trying to get to their livestock/barn during blizzards. If you grew up there, you may have read it. Great read. Kind regards.
@@keeptrying5962 read "Giants in the Earth" for middle school as my area was homesteaders from Norway/Sweden also that decided that 3b/4a zone sounded fun
I have NOT listened yet (but am eager to do so). I am born & raised in SDakota, but not living there now. I hope to retire there eventually-parents, all my family are there, Sioux Falls area (east river). This is what I know: the soil in that area is great. My father hobby-farms 5 acres of sweet corn every year and he doesn't have to irrigate it. The rain is enough, most years. The soil there is dark and rich, akin to the stuff people pay a lot of money to 'improve' the soil they have. I do worry the state will certainly be ruined by results of Noem's (relative) popularity during the p lan demic. I don't think it's the right place for everybody--the winters can be brutal, summers humid and hazy. It's pretty flat, most of it. People there are pretty good, and like those in North Dakota (where I lived for a few years, also) TEND to keep their own minds about things, probably because our populations have been lower and quite homogenous (until social engineers, e.g. the likes of Lutheran Social Services) began to cultivate our ruination. Now I listen. THANK YOU.
Great things to consider! Big AG. may do better to pivot to hemp! Doug Fine in his book, "American Hemp Farmer" (2020) recommends 20 acres and a 50 mile minimum delivery to a seed drier. The farmers can coop just like they do now, meanwhile the soil is left better for their posterity. We spray Effective Microganisms (EM-1) to repopulate the damaged soil food web from the harmful big AG. chemicals in our small town in Nebraska along the North Loup River.
No more druggies PLEASE that is both a Gateway Drug and on its own destroys lives!! Weed stinks even just growing and it brings in dangerous and in general problem people. Any doubts look at California and similar areas.
at 5:07 you show 4 big red circles and said you put a blanket 50 kilometer circle around major cities. the center of the bottom 2 are brookings and sioux falls. between those 2 cities is the city of madison. that is where i am at right now this very second. 50 kilometers is 31.068 miles. well i hate to break it to you, but it is 54 miles to sioux falls and 52 miles to brookings. i was in sioux falls this morning, and i go to brookings all the time to get trigger point injections in my back! my land is several dead towns to the west and i bought it as a staging point to go look at land in montana, bought 20 acres there but gave it away because i ended up with over 1 MILLION DOLLARS in medical bills! im headed south when i find the right piece of land in southern missouri!
Growing up in SDakota, I'd often find among my coins Canadian currency. My childhood was spent ruining my teeth on "penny candy" . The kind clerks at our neighborhood "Family Drug Store" accepted those coins, the grocery stores did too. Imagine my shock the first time somebody (not in SDakota, but in California) refused to accept my Canadian coins as payment, lol. Like what? It's right up there. ☝🏼 Like RIGHT THERE. Just take it. 🤣 (Sorry that was random, but I wanted to share.)
Hey folks Michigan or Maine? What are your opinions? I'm getting a little bit overcrowded here in South Carolina not to mention priced out of the market here lately...
I really love both places. I do traveling sales and have spent substantial time in both states. I'd say Maine if you want less people and topography. I really like Maine. Michigan has a variety of climates and major cities. It's pretty flat though. As a fellow resident of the SE, I'm about ready to split myself.
@@offgridcurtisstone Oh, you should. Friends bought land in the mountains and there was an old abandoned mine under their property that was poisoning their groundwater. Cost them tens of thousands of dollars to put in a water purification system and they couldn't plant vegetable gardens. Lawsuits everywhere!
Yes, I'm sure there's hundreds of ways to spend more time and consider this or that, but this is what we have and is the best we can do. I would encourage you to make a video series about that, it sounds really interesting. Please keep me posted.
I live on the NW part of the state. It's purdy country but the growing season is relatively short lived. Planting typically starts the second week of May and by June the lettuces have already bolted and turned bitter. Most other things seems to grow fine. I catch water off my roof mostly in May and June and use it as a supplement for watering or ICE. It's always best to have a full pantry because you never know what the winter months will be like. I was a East coast city guy who got suckered into coming out here by a good looking lady.
You can also sculpt the landscape in your vicinity (Swales, ponds, plantings) to keep what water you do get to stay on the land, longer. The thing about the dry country in the American west is that it still gets precipitation, plus the good sun that you get makes building an almost net-zero heating and cooling system.
My (poor) memory of the Dakotas geology is there are lots of sedimentary formations (clay and shale) that make road (and other) construction pretty tricky. The arid/semi-arid climate adds to the problem, because when it does rain, there's a tendency for things to slip and slide away.
South Dakota is one of the most beautiful states in America
It is certainly one of the most geographically diverse regarding different ecosystems and climates.
Feels like a mini Montana
NE SD in the Sisseton area is beautiful. Beautiful farmland and rich soil. I don't think the farms there ever come on the market.
I think he is doing a real decent job. He is thinking about things people will regret thinking about if problems develop. Do not blame this man for choosing not to be a shallow lotus eater.
The area you have outlined in blue is literally called the bad lands 😅 much of the Dakotas down through nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma i would call the great planes though many people who live in these regions would consider themselves in the "Midwest" much of sd can have snow all the way into June! Though it doesn't stick around.
There are actually a number of people who move to the center of the state in order to get away from people. It pretty much is the middle of nowhere. Definitely have a very sturdy green house and a lot of preps if you choose to go here.
Well I'll take the Midwest ag over cityscape pop density any day and to be honest I don't think too many in the Midwest care as we like having open spaces. Run off is not that bad because all the farmers I know are careful with spraying as the chemicals are too expensive to have it float down river. From what I've seen the suburban is worse as they over spray to grow grass
I’ve always wanted to go visit South Dakota and potentially live there someday. Winters look extremely tough though. Thanks!
winter is not bitter cold but you do get blizzards and nasty ice storms. The badlands is beautiful and Spearfish was always my favorite area
@@jesshorn257 are you from there, Jess? The winters are (actually) often quite bitter cold. I will check the definition of 'bitter cold' ('cuz maybe -20/30 F below isn't bitter cold, strictly speaking, lol). North Dakota was colder, but dang. SDakotans used to have to read "Giants in the Earth", story of Norwegian immigrants, how they'd sometimes freeze to death just trying to get to their livestock/barn during blizzards. If you grew up there, you may have read it. Great read. Kind regards.
Scott, the winters ARE rough, particularly if you've grown up used to the opposite.
@@keeptrying5962 I'm from NW MN were bitter cold -30/-40 range
@@keeptrying5962 read "Giants in the Earth" for middle school as my area was homesteaders from Norway/Sweden also that decided that 3b/4a zone sounded fun
I have NOT listened yet (but am eager to do so). I am born & raised in SDakota, but not living there now. I hope to retire there eventually-parents, all my family are there, Sioux Falls area (east river). This is what I know: the soil in that area is great. My father hobby-farms 5 acres of sweet corn every year and he doesn't have to irrigate it. The rain is enough, most years. The soil there is dark and rich, akin to the stuff people pay a lot of money to 'improve' the soil they have. I do worry the state will certainly be ruined by results of Noem's (relative) popularity during the p lan demic. I don't think it's the right place for everybody--the winters can be brutal, summers humid and hazy. It's pretty flat, most of it. People there are pretty good, and like those in North Dakota (where I lived for a few years, also) TEND to keep their own minds about things, probably because our populations have been lower and quite homogenous (until social engineers, e.g. the likes of Lutheran Social Services) began to cultivate our ruination. Now I listen. THANK YOU.
Christy Noem was a breath of fresh air during the pandemic.
Whatever happened to physical maps btw, seems theyve gone the way of the dodo. Scary stuff, but it just makes your work even more important. God bless
Great things to consider! Big AG. may do better to pivot to hemp! Doug Fine in his book, "American Hemp Farmer" (2020) recommends 20 acres and a 50 mile minimum delivery to a seed drier. The farmers can coop just like they do now, meanwhile the soil is left better for their posterity. We spray Effective Microganisms (EM-1) to repopulate the damaged soil food web from the harmful big AG. chemicals in our small town in Nebraska along the North Loup River.
No more druggies PLEASE that is both a Gateway Drug and on its own destroys lives!! Weed stinks even just growing and it brings in dangerous and in general problem people. Any doubts look at California and similar areas.
at 5:07 you show 4 big red circles and said you put a blanket 50 kilometer circle around major cities.
the center of the bottom 2 are brookings and sioux falls. between those 2 cities is the city of madison. that is where i am at right now this very second.
50 kilometers is 31.068 miles. well i hate to break it to you, but it is 54 miles to sioux falls and 52 miles to brookings. i was in sioux falls this morning, and i go to brookings all the time to get trigger point injections in my back!
my land is several dead towns to the west and i bought it as a staging point to go look at land in montana, bought 20 acres there but gave it away because i ended up with over 1 MILLION DOLLARS in medical bills! im headed south when i find the right piece of land in southern missouri!
Thanks for these videos. I'm interested to get your thoughts on NC since that's one of the main places people are moving.
Please do a video on WI and MN
Northern California. Would like it if you split Northern and Southern California.
Idaho and Wyoming...
One of the virginias
Growing up in SDakota, I'd often find among my coins Canadian currency. My childhood was spent ruining my teeth on "penny candy" . The kind clerks at our neighborhood "Family Drug Store" accepted those coins, the grocery stores did too. Imagine my shock the first time somebody (not in SDakota, but in California) refused to accept my Canadian coins as payment, lol. Like what? It's right up there. ☝🏼 Like RIGHT THERE. Just take it. 🤣 (Sorry that was random, but I wanted to share.)
Haha!!! Love it!
I'd love to move and can go anywhere, but have analysis paralysis as there really is no perfect place that checks all of the boxes.
Thus is life. In order to get shit done, you have to just make a move.
Really like your videos, Wyoming and PA please.
Hey Curtis! Would love to see you do one on Newfoundland and Labrador!
It's coming.
Can you please do Southern California please especially around the San Bernardino Mountains
I spent most of my life there, feel free to reach out if you have any questions.
Hey folks Michigan or Maine? What are your opinions? I'm getting a little bit overcrowded here in South Carolina not to mention priced out of the market here lately...
I really love both places. I do traveling sales and have spent substantial time in both states. I'd say Maine if you want less people and topography. I really like Maine. Michigan has a variety of climates and major cities. It's pretty flat though. As a fellow resident of the SE, I'm about ready to split myself.
Michigan in my opinion, if I had to choose.
You shouldn’t pick places here w/o knowing more.
Crow creek is a Native American reservation n winner is near Rosebud reservation.
There's always more to know and I don't know everything, but I do the best I can to help people.
Do San Diego my man
Do you take into account historic maps that may reveal old underground mines that could poison the groundwater?
No.
@@offgridcurtisstone Oh, you should. Friends bought land in the mountains and there was an old abandoned mine under their property that was poisoning their groundwater. Cost them tens of thousands of dollars to put in a water purification system and they couldn't plant vegetable gardens. Lawsuits everywhere!
Yes, I'm sure there's hundreds of ways to spend more time and consider this or that, but this is what we have and is the best we can do. I would encourage you to make a video series about that, it sounds really interesting. Please keep me posted.
Curtis, what is your first choice regarding the USA? Where and Why?
Anywhere in the Ozarchs.
I would like to you talk about Virginia.
Up state N Y it’s to crowded go somewhere else
You don't know this state at all. Talking without knowing anything.
You do a video and shows us the correct information. Thanks!
I am from SoDak and I think he did a fine job. Gives a person a place to start, if they're interested in moving to SD to homestead.