If I could go back in time to before we put our house on this piece of land, back to when our raw lot was a dense forest of young pines, if I only knew what we would be doing on our property when we first acquired it, we would have planned a little differently. You see, when my dad gave us a small piece of his land five years ago, we had no idea we’d be homesteading. And although it didn’t take us long to find our purpose here, we definitely made costly decisions in the beginning. Perhaps if I share some of the mistakes we made those first two years, I can help some of you to avoid doing the same. If only somebody would have been there to help us make the right choices as we were starting fresh, we wouldn’t have taken so many steps back in the process.
Power, Water & Waste
From the beginning we knew we didn’t want power lines running across our property, so we had the electric company bury lines from the road to our house, over the stream and through the woods. But if we could go back and do it again, we would have opted for solar or hydro instead. Now we find ourselves desperate to detach from the grid, but even when we accomplish that we will have wasted tons of money having those power lines brought out here that first year. Continue reading…
Leave a Reply