Any one willing to let a family live and homestead in their land? (real estate, credit)

[Metlakatla]

Barfly, that bored has been dead for years.

Bortstc37, you were ripped off.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Barfly, that bored has been dead for years.

Bortstc37, you were ripped off.

The new one is at a site called Frontier Freedom, though a server change recently cost a year of posts or so...

[Barkingowl]

Bored? I tried taking a look for communes that might fit their needs but not surprisingly anything that might have proved worthy couldn't make a go of it or they don't want new members.

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by arctichomesteader

The new one is at a site called Frontier Freedom, though a server change recently cost a year of posts or so...

Frontier Freedom - Home

[Rickers]

I would rather live off the sea living on a boat than live off the land off grid in a corn cob house.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by iampneuma

My husband and I are desperately looking for a place in rural Alaska to live in. With only enough money for necessities we are hoping it's for free. We are hoping to homestead and raise a family. We hope, really, really hope someone is willing to let us move into their land..if you have a large amount of land. We are planning on building a small natural home. For more info please contact me. Thank you for reading this.

Laurel

I'll try to keep this short:

A) land isn't really cheap and I can't afford to give mine away. If I get rid of my land in AK I'd have to sell it for what I've paid for it at least, likely more.

B) the liability someone might incur from letting someone use their land like a rental situation would be enough to make that unlikely

C) the danger of adverse posession if you wer eallowed to build a structure and live in it would keep anyone not willing to give away land from doing it.

D) you don't seem to me to be prepared enough to do this. Until you've at least got some experience building things, hunting, trapping, fishing, butchering your own meat, gardening for your food, camping for extended periods of time, have experienced true cold weather, have enough money to have an escape plan, etc., I think you should wait. And, Florida isn't a good place for that. I've experienced 30 or so below in Northern Vermont but that's actually warmer than some parts of Alaska get. Climate-wise Southeast Alaska is best for survival, but it's expensive and not road accessible from the outside for the most part (except some small bits accessible from Canada). The cheapest land I've found is in parts of the Interior, but you're talking extreme cold and being ill prepared will kill.

E) have you looked into other states?

F) save up more money and buy your own piece of land somewhere. If you buy land near a national forest or such you don't need a lot of land to have access to good hunting/etc.

G) log or timber framed construction is more practical in Alaska, especially if you get land with enough trees.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by Barkingowl

Bored? I tried taking a look for communes that might fit their needs but not surprisingly anything that might have proved worthy couldn't make a go of it or they don't want new members.

I'm starting a new country in Antarctica. Anyone interested?

P.S.: I have no money for the project so someone needs to pony up the cash to start a country.

[gobrien]

In the OP's defense people do use corn cobs or straw as insulation, I knew of some people in the interior of the state doing that, a problem, though, is that it is really flammable.

[bortstc37]

Originally Posted by Metlakatla

Barfly, that bored has been dead for years.

Bortstc37, you were ripped off.

i was doing it so that i could learn how to do a variety of tasks on a small, organic, off grid farms (i worked on a couple of different ones). it was well worth it. i wasn't just a fruit picker or anything like that. i got to do everything, and am very grateful that i took the opportunity to learn.

now i know many of the finer points of composting, planting, weeding, clearing land, chasing chickens, weeding, construction, leveling, watering, sweating, stinking, weeding, wind/water turbine maintenance, killing snakes, cutting/chopping wood, weeding, digging ditches and drainage channels, harvesting, trapping rodents, moving big heavy things, and weeding.

did i mention weeding?

if somebody who didn't grow up on a farm wants to learn how to live off the land, these are good skills to learn.

[arctichomesteader]

Originally Posted by gobrien

In the OP's defense people do use corn cobs or straw as insulation, I knew of some people in the interior of the state doing that, a problem, though, is that it is really flammable.

Yeah, but when you're surrounded by spruce trees...use what's at hand, right, no need to complicate things?