What To Look For When Building A Homestead
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
- What are some of the things to look for when building a homestead? We get this question a lot and there are some definite things one should pay attention to when looking for land. And there are some hard questions one should ask before buying and building a homestead.
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I like your video a lot. I grew up on a ranch in New Mexico and water was a big deal.
I ended up in Arkansas after the military looking for a job, I was amazed at the jobs here in the early 70’s. But I missed my life of farming. so I went looking and asking questions from ever old person that would talk to me.( remember there was no internet, no social media) all I had was “ mother Earth news & Fox fire books” for how to resources. Bought my first land in 77, too small & poor soil. Sold that for a good profit. Then in 88 I went off the deep end and purchased this large farm with a mortgage. I now have 1382 acres water power and 3 gas wells that produces an income.. Now am totally off grid in Northern Arkansas! 3 of my 5 children were born at home. We homeschooled them all. All have College degrees 2 PHD’s. Now in my late 60’s I am doing quite well, because I didn’t listen to my parents who grew up during the Great Depression and wanted me to have it easier than them. I have cattle, chickens a large garden with green house. My Church Family helps run the day to day and share the bounty.
Just as important as water is selecting land that is at least a quarter mile from the nearest road, with private access! We have a 200 acre homestead well away from any public roads, whereas we can't count how many of our neighbors have lost dozens of their farm animals that wandered into nearby roadways and got hit by cars. Sheep, goats, poultry, farm dogs, cattle... all will eventually find a hole in a fence and you absolutely don't want "escapees" to immediately encounter a public road.
Chris Fontana yay good for you.
We are in the Ozarks as well on the Missouri side near a city. We're in the dreaming/planning stages now and will be on property within 3 years, the good Lord willing. Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I'm doing a blog post this week about my favorite homesteading youtubers and am going to be adding you guys to my list.
Great channel and video. We are a homeschool family of 11 and have an urban homestead but are looking to buy 5 to 20 acres this spring. I will definitely keep in mind your strong emphasis on water sources. You seem very similar in practice to what our goals are. Thank you!
I think you did a great job Jaimie! I have great respect for you. Growing up on our small farm we grew A Lot of meat and vegetables. Butchered and canned! Hard work but rewarding. Blessings!
I really enjoyed this video. Thank you for taking the time to make it. I don't believe I heard you mention collecting your own water. It rains a fair amount here in KY. I live off-grid on the top of a mountain where there is hardly any water or flat land but I make do by using water catchment off of my metal roof into a cistern. Thought I'd mention that as an option. I look forward to the next installment of this series. Great job!
great video. you guys shared some great insight on why you did what you did. especially on the water point thanks
i have two well-meaning remarks:
1. water is definitely important, however it doesn't need to be there in abundance when you arrive.
with right setup one can also move in fairly arid areas without much problems. technologies such as sand dams, johars, contouring your land, rainwater harvesting areas and gabions and catchment ponds all provide catchment for seasonal waters, and they're done with an excavator. additional technologies such as sunk gardens, shades, adobe walls etc. all create a favorable micro-climate even in desert areas.
as Sepp Holzer said, the people forgot to use the blessing of rain, the catchment area.
s in case of an arid piece of land, you can term it more bad management than actual drawback. and price-wise, this can work to your advantage.
2. since your water is on top and house would have been better down, why didn't you simply build house down, and have a wind pump fill the main water tank of the house?
was there not enough wind?
Very well done, also a place that rains regularly, this is why "one of many reasons" I hate Ca. We have a Artesian well and a fishing pond here in the dessert of Ca., however my wife has dreams again and again of many people rushing the house in bad times, and as I tell her when SHTF, we and a very select few where we live are the only one's who will have water, of course the people no doubt will come, the people behind us who use the road to their places can see our pond. It is not visible from the main road though.
The great thing about living rural in Ar. Tenn. as so forth, is everyone gets rain, everyone around you is doing the same thing, growing food and they all have water, when SHTF, they will not be attacking you for your water or food, but will be watching to protect their stuff,
Jaime has such a calming voice, you should do voice over, or infomercials.. I've learned so much , can't wait for harvest time...
Demographic and voting pattern of your new location are very important factors to take in consideration as well.
❤ waiting to get water discovered on my parcel.
if one is rich enough, then one really move anywhere. West Texas lacks water making land cheaper. if one buys an excavator machine, you could dig up a lot of space to build water storage. then you just ship in a lot of water and build a system that saves and recycles water.
+dart336 Very true! Many of the typical homesteading headaches can be eliminated by saving up enough money beforehand to afford more "luxury" accommodations, and not having to compromise on anything.
+HeartlandRanchTV that and Craig's list is your best friend
dart336 Definitely.
Thank you so much for sharing this! We will be selling our house here in the next month and will be looking for land to homestead on.
We feel led to finish paying off the rest of our debt and get out of the city.
The Ozarks are high on our list of areas we are considering. Excited for the next leg of our journey!
Well organized and well said. Thank you! I learned some new things to think about.
This is an amazing adventure so far! Great video!
I think that this is your best video yet
Thank you!
cart on wheels for water containers movement.
Loved this video! Very informative, thank you for sharing.
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Thank you for such useful and essential details
Very informative
I didn't choose the Homestead life, the homestead life chose me! 😂
Sooo sweet
Water isn't a big deal. You can still a well, collect rain off every roof on your property, you can dig a large pond and you can build a warka water tower out of bamboo that automatically collects 25plus gallons of water a day from thin air without electricity.
Lovin this, Jaimie!!!!
Great video guys.
Very good info. Thanks!!!
The cost of digging the well is really $1850? Did you hire a company to dig the well or you do it yourself? The price you mentioned is very cheap. We paid $6000 for 30 ft well out here in Iowa.
+midwestgardener Wow...they saw you coming. These are small business guys...if they know you got money...they will charge you more.
We paid about 6k for our well but they had to go down 450 ft. Price will vary according to your location as well. We are in TN.
When is the next installment? Great info ... waiting for more!
coming soon!
Can you elaborate on how you built the water source for your beds as shown here?
hi new subscriber just love your videos I am learning so much tfs
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How about a pac NW island with commercial ship access?
thank you for the video
"...when that water source may no longer be available...," or when the water source switches to being filtered toilet waste.
Are there any good resources that give the skinny on locations to buy land based on the criteria you mentioned at the outset? Such as, regs, growing season, etc. etc.? Thanks!
we have bought our land and are now trying to get homes built and pay off debt. we need to sell our homes to build our homes
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