Sustainable Isolated and Remote Homesteading
This document was for my eyes only, putting my ideas on paper. Outlining my plans for the future, the retirement years. But I decided to share it. Several of my friends and I discussed the possibility of forming a living cooperative alliance in the form of an Isolated, Secure, Remote, and Sustainable Homestead. This is a work in progress and will change over time. I started this document when a real estate agent asked me to write down what I was looking for, where and why, so she could finetune her search parameters. My friends also needed a better understanding of my intentions, to decide if this lifestyle was something they wanted to get involved with. One objective of Permaculture is to design labour out of the process of farming and if we can design labour out of farming then conceptually, we can also design the need for money out of living. A closed loop sustainable system and a change in lifestyle, redefining what makes us happy and content, should allow us to achieve objective