I have property. I have materials to build 2 greenhouses and shelter for farm animals. I have had some health issues, but I can bust ass still at 55. I have equipment. What i don't have is any help...and motivation is an issue at this point. Long story, but after a Cat 5 hurricane, massive destruction and personal upheaval, it's been a rough 3 years and then add the financial strain and a myriad of other issues and here i am. I need help. If anyone is anywhere near the Panama City, Bay County, Florida area and would be interested in working together, I'll help you if you help me and we can build some sustainable food sources for multiple families. My dream is to be able to provide stability of food source for my family and other families as the need arises. I'm not looking to make big money. I'm looking for sustainability and fostering my ability to help others in need as we all know whats coming. I don't want to work with anyone who isn't a pede and Patriot at heart. Message me private if you can help. God bless!
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Certified Permaculture designer/ Owner operator of 1 acre market garden. Wife and I support 24 families a week for half the year and 2 farmers markets for 9 months of the year in Pennsylvania. Too established to join you but happy to answer any questions you might have. I hope you will find some help as there seems to be a lot of people becoming aware of the need for secure local food systems.
This site may help you to get some feelers out there, but you may have to sort through some commies. My experience with sustainable farming includes a lot of lefties. But I find farming and local food to be the best way to bridge the left and right and prove that decentralizing and direct production and sales are the way forward. https://wwoof.net/
What a great resource and kiddos to you! You are what I want to be. Thank you so much!!
I'm also one of those too far away to help, but I'm praying for your efforts to be blessed and I admire what you want to do. Also wanted to say I had a good natured chuckle when I noticed you wished for farmforfreedom to be fruitful and multiply! : -)
I’m sitting over here wondering what I can do to make a trip.
Kids. Five years into the future and we would have a lot of help.
Right now it would be like herding squirrels lol
Howdy! Could we talk outside of this thread at some point? This kind of community building effort is my dream (community market/garden model, but with hydroponics so it doesn't req a huge space for yield, + is my background though I grew up around trad. farming.) and I would love to pick your brain!
I think this model could work across communities too, but right now just connecting with people like you who are doing it! My end-goal is to create a modular 'franchise' model of community garden/market that can adapt to the local climates/markets, maybe even supporting it's own/piggybacking local logistics chains. The idea is that it must run as a co-op to avoid exploitation via wanton profiteering on a community good-but what if that market generated income/value in a broader market? I have some ideas on staking as a DAO and using blockchain to operate but that's down the line, the point is a community should have a fairly self-sustaining garden market that they can tap as a resource year-round (another reason for my passion re: hydro; ultimate crop versatility, within limits ofc.), and I am going to help build it, dammit.
This is the American way.
I'm gonna keep you in mind. I'm in south central PA, and I've got my eye on a beautiful piece of property. Would you be willing to give someone with the same goals a few pointers? I grew up raising beef cattle, but my dad refused to adapt and kept losing money on the farm until his health forced him to give it up.
In South Central PA too and would love to get connected. I can't really help with your endeavor, but just knowing someone like you and I might not be far apart, could really help us both down the road. I taught myself to garden and can a few years ago, but my 2 raised garden beds is all I have room for.
Chester County here, happy to give any tips I can and forward any resources you might find useful.
How so? I figure they would mostly be like panty-fa and burn-loot-murder from CHAZ last year, where they piled some dirt on cardboard and expected a good harvest with no care.
I grew up as an anarchist and I can say that the left has a soft spot for small, local businesses. I can also say that permaculture and sustainable agriculture including grass fed meat are quite attractive to those on the hippie left. Most of my regular farmers market customers are aged mid 30s-50s and are moderate left. On my website I wrote a blog post about how the great reset is no good from a sustainable farmers perspective and was surprised by the response. We just need to think productively and be an example and show the left that what the talk the right walks by having creative solutions rather than asking the government to help.
Salute!!! Very well done
May the Lord send angels across your path. He does that.
Can confirm.
Too far to help you, but will send prayers your way...God will bless you....
God will bless you with exactly the help you need at exactly the right moment. Proud of you Anon!
We have been homesteading for a while and have had the good fortune to "rescue" a few homeless families over the years. Nothing feels better.
If you have a Gab account, you may find some helpful groups to join and potentially recruit help.
Put up a 30' x 120' greenhouse this past spring, the Dose-a-tron makes drip watering and fertilization easy. Get a pH and ppm meter plus water source and you're set.
Motivation can be tough when you are juggling many different projects simultaneously.
Recommend Pratt's Greenhouse and Farm videos for motivation/tips
Thanks! Good stuff!!
Just want to add a word of advice to the conversation: Please be careful as you don't know who might show up to pretend to help. Do background checks on those who offer. We all know that there are individuals here that don't have good intentions. Other than that I wish you luck and hope that your project turns out great.
Absolutely
If we could come park our RV there, I'd be wiling to help/learn!
I was going to ask the same question. My wife and I am planning to take off the month of February and head south for a month of warm weather instead of this Cold. Currently have a 1.5 acre garden and provide enough veggies for 4 families for the year. Planning a 36x64 greenhouse this spring and would like to help so I can gain the knowledge of putting up a greenhouse. I don’t know how to DM on this site??
Click the persons name. On the right side of their page under the post and comment scores it says "send a message". Not sure how this presents on a mobile phone.
Seriously? Like a working vacation? Hit me up dm.
God is good!
Yep. Working with your hands is a vacation. Growing your own food is one of the most rewarding challenges a person can have. Can someone tell me how to direct message?
Good for you. It's the best way out of debt slavery. We were 13 months on the road before landing on our property. Boondocking saved my family.
Anyone who wants a place to park in the Ozarks, hit me up. No glowfags.
A proper RV or a converted van? The van conversions are really cool and interesting.
I've had people stay out here in tents, because they had nothing else. It isn't for me to decide.
We started out in a 24' bumper pull, crashed it to pieces and ended up in a twenty year old class A. We landed where we are through a chain of events I can only describe as impossible to plan and legitimately miraculous.
A generator and furnace of some kind seem like minimum needs, but if folks can't they can't. Should they just fuck off and die in some alley somewhere?
We all do the best we can. What else can we do?
It's easy to get overwhelmed. Over the past 8 months, we have slowly been moving towards at least some semblance of sustainable food sources. We have had to just work one project at a time on our little 2 acre lot. Take down trees. Stock large pond (12 acre pond) with fish. Build small greenhouse. Build some raised beds. Order non gmo /heirloom seeds. Buy canning supplies. Buy additional freezers. Start planting fruit trees and berry bushes. Get to know local farmers for natural meat sources, eggs etc. Put down landscape fabric all over the place (we are 60+ years of age....I don't want to be weeding a bunch). Mulch. Install drip irrigation system. and on and on....and then now hopefully come spring I can finally start growing veggies/spices, etc. Hope to also share what we grow with neighbors. The important thing for us has been to tackle one item at a time and do it right. I'm impatient so its hard, but its worth it.
You know, I've had some luck making a cheap greenhouse without too much work. What I did was take two cattle panels, overlap them by 9 squares, bend them into a 16 ft diameter arch, and stick a (notched on the top) 2x4 8 ft stud in the middle. the hardest part was banging in some T-posts to shore up the edges and the stud. Then used another 16ft cattle panel for the back.
Once you get the first arch, you keep adding on from there.
oh, and use zip ties or wire to tie them together
Same here! Exact scenario. Just starting to find help. We are by the lake George FL area. Building a rental house on the property to house help.
I love threads like this one.
The first step to getting motivated is to realize you’re not motivated!
I plan to do the same as you as soon as I can convince my husband to move from the city.
I hope you find a partner!
This is exactly the type of networking and planning we should be doing. Off topic my ass. If I was near by I would help. As others have said reach out on other platforms, but vet your prospects as thoroughly as you can. I would also encourage teaching people how to independently sustain themselves in the event something happens to the main projects.
Best of luck to you and please share your advice and progress.
Good luck. I’m too far away to help but I hope that others see this and feel called to assist.
I want to help with this so badly. Pray that God gives me the means to do so. I don't think my rusty old Dodge would survive a trip to Florida, but if I could somehow get a half decent vehicle, I'd put in for vacation time and even bring my kids along.
Holy moly! What a fren! I'd surely welcome the help. Saying a prayer 8thGenPatriot!
Wish I was in Florida, but I'm in socialist-run MN. Good luck to you though!
Looks like you are prepping or refuge set up. You may find help on those sites. You may also find there people with skills you or family need to learn.
I am completely ignorant of sites of that sort. I haven't even started to investigate them yet. Just finally at a pointwhere I can start doing these things. Are there legit ones that aren't gonna have fbi agents trying to build greenhouses and setup crimes at my property? Any help or guidance would be incredibly appreciated!
Tons on homesteading vids online can be a wealth of information.
The book holistic orchard by Michael Phelps has been a wonderful source of inspiration for me.
"Permaculture" is a search term worth digging into. Tons of folks are feeling the pull towards a self sustaining lifestyle.
If you ever want to pick my brain, I'll try to help as I am able. We aren't experts around here, but we have learned a bunch along the way.
Good info. Thx!
It's the internet, assume everything is a honeypot. Decide for yourself how much you care about getting caught trying to do the right thing.
How I got started years ago was when I noticed events matching up with biblical prophecy. I trust Stan and Holly Deyo, Mike Adams, John Leary refuges. Once you get on these kinds of sites you will be led to more.
Two things I advise, dont go broadcasting what youre doing. You will be inviting the likes of looters. Second keep organized or you will end up buying double or what you really dont need.
Food, water, fuels for heat, light, cooking, shelters, written bug in or bug out plans, transportation, communication, weapons. Camping sites have lots to offer without raising a brow.
No help here, except to rec this site to maybe find more like-minded people near you: https://mypatriotsnetwork.com/tag/mafa-pam-popper/
All resources help
Now this is how the world should behave.
Unfortunate things happen and we should not feel ashamed or be reluctant to ask for help. As a proud man I have been too stubborn for my own good. Eventually learned (still learning) my lesson. Gratifying to see practical love-your-neighbor type responses.
God Bless. WWG1WGA
While on topic, I live in a major city and have 2 balconies and want to convert one of them into a greenhouse - will the advice given here apply?
Wish I was closer Fren, in Duval until next summer...
We're looking for property near Port St Joe
Beautiful there. I love Apalachicola. Fun to visit.
Can we donate to your cause if we are too far away to help?
I'll bump this. Unfortunately im in the second best state, otherwise I would be there in a heartbeat.
If I lived in Florida and could handle rough labor, I'd try it out. But I'm in the Democratic People's Republic of Blasio-Cuomo-Hochul and soft/dangerously out of shape.