My One Year Anniversary Living Off Grid in New Mexico
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- Опубліковано 24 вер 2024
- I'm eternally grateful to be living here and forging a completely new way of life. To all of you who have documented your own off grid journeys and posted your videos on UA-cam - thank you! I have learned so much by watching them. I hope that by chronicling my own journey I'm able to - in my own small way - give back to this community and help others who are moving in that direction.
Hi thanks for your content. May I ask what county you’re in? Thanks
We started full time RVing in 2017. Made our way up to WA where we work camped for 6 years. My Rheumatoid arthritis was off the chain from the moisture and finally realized I was suffering from seasonal depression from the 8 mos of rain. We too have made our way down to New Mexico where the low humidity has put my RA into remission without meds for 2 years now. We started looking for off grid property outside Taos but my wife really needs to be closer population center for her work. New Sub, look forward to future videos.
@@RV_Chef_Life Glad to hear the move has improved your health! That’s amazing! I looked in the Taos area for years, even made offers that mysteriously fell through. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. I finally found land in Cerrillos, almost dead center between ABQ and Santa Fe - a half hour in either direction. I really love it out here. When I’m home I feel the immense desert solitude, but when I need to go to the city I’m not far at all.
Holding the water up from running off will also recharge the ground water. For sculpture with cement mixture, it was a wire frame packed with scrunched up paper inside the frame then cement. I think people just use spray foam and not paper now. Some really nice homes have been sculptured the way you are trying to do things with cement. You even have ferro cement boats.
I appreciate the comment. I've been working with/experimenting with ferrocement for about 20 years. It's amazing how versatile it is. But one thing still eludes me: getting the strongest mix possible. I know that the ancient builders made cement that was stronger than stone - way stronger than Portland cement nowadays. Once I find that optimal mix, I think I will have found the holy grail!
@@utopiancow like Roman cement. I like that sea water was the hidden ingredient.
Hey your videos are getting better and better too, Mr. Cow. Be sure to share the links to the videos that helped you in the description - to really pay back, cite, share. But I'll say for myself, though at the moment I have no interest in doing what you're doing, this gives me some feeling for how I could share what I'm doing. So thank you brother.
I’d really love to see what you’re up to, so I hope you’ll do a little chronicling of what that is. Great suggestion on including more links. Here’s a recent one: ua-cam.com/video/cc3-3s115mM/v-deo.htmlsi=d4OCnCBrf1E2fTyR - but there are so many more. Right now I’m doing hands-on research on how to garden and bring water to the desert. The above link shows one way, one of the best that I’ve seen, on how to that’s done. I’m learning…even how to make these little videos better, more informative, maybe even a little more entertaining. Cheers, my friend.