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I haven't posted since october, daaaaaamn. Well I barely get online for long anymore, mostly just checking things really quickly on my android phone. I finally let Victoria go, I had put up with so much crap from her during our friendship it simply because the most opposite of a friendship it could ever have been, and the final straw was finding out she completely lied to me basically our entire friendship as well. But whatever about her, I don't even think of her most of the time anymore. And by letting her go I was able to open my heart to meeting new people.
One in particular, happened to be the most amazing human being that I have ever encountered. Her name is Karen. She has a beautiful soul and we connect on so many levels beyond anyone I have ever connected with in my life. I have come to believe she is my soul mate, like, officially. Anyway, we began dating on the Spring Equinox March 20th and it has been beautiful ever since. Life is better than ever. I am getting my shit together finally. Studying to get certified to work with JEA with my dad, great pay and benefits. and I have a plan also, for the future. Same as the plan I have had to a long time now but it is getting clearer and clearer.
The ultimate goal is this: I will buy several acres of property out west in a more remote area but near a small progressive town perhaps in Oregon. I will set up a sustainable farm/co-op there where all the ppl I have met and will meet are welcome to come and live/work in exchange for food, shelter, and friendship. I will have mastered the art of homesteading and farming by then and will teach classes on it and then everyone will work together on projects around the farm. I will eventually be 100% off grid and 100% sustainable and very little money will be used in the upkeep of the house and farm.
Here is a list I've recently made of what will be included ont he farm:
- Compost (including composting toilet and bin in the kitchen and then a huge area for housing compost on property)
-Solar panel roof (all buildings will have this, I intend to have enough power for the entire property)
- Green house ( one of several stages for farming different plants/herbs)
- Fish farm
- Hydroponic set up ( for green house and for fish farm)
- Kob building ( most of the buildings on site will be made from earthen materials and will be a group project)
- Chicken coop ( free roaming chickens with coop for egg collection)
- Miniature Donkeys and goats ( for lawn upkeep and to collect poo for fertilizer)
- Sustainable crops of different kinds ( will utilize hugel mounds, key hold gardens, many ideas for sustainability)
- Food forests (much of the property will be woodlands and I want to keep it that way, with trails to help navigate through and I will plants tree guilds and underlying edible plants throughout)
I will learn this and also there will be classes held on property for learning:
Make your own:
-soap, shampoo, conditioner
-house cleaners
- fertilizers
- pest control
- candles
- food (vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, etc...)
- clothes
- and more!
Currently, I have a few small crops I am tending:
-Watermelon (2 kinds)
- Pumpkin
- Edamame
- Avacado
- Oregano
- Dill
- Cat grass
One in particular, happened to be the most amazing human being that I have ever encountered. Her name is Karen. She has a beautiful soul and we connect on so many levels beyond anyone I have ever connected with in my life. I have come to believe she is my soul mate, like, officially. Anyway, we began dating on the Spring Equinox March 20th and it has been beautiful ever since. Life is better than ever. I am getting my shit together finally. Studying to get certified to work with JEA with my dad, great pay and benefits. and I have a plan also, for the future. Same as the plan I have had to a long time now but it is getting clearer and clearer.
The ultimate goal is this: I will buy several acres of property out west in a more remote area but near a small progressive town perhaps in Oregon. I will set up a sustainable farm/co-op there where all the ppl I have met and will meet are welcome to come and live/work in exchange for food, shelter, and friendship. I will have mastered the art of homesteading and farming by then and will teach classes on it and then everyone will work together on projects around the farm. I will eventually be 100% off grid and 100% sustainable and very little money will be used in the upkeep of the house and farm.
Here is a list I've recently made of what will be included ont he farm:
- Compost (including composting toilet and bin in the kitchen and then a huge area for housing compost on property)
-Solar panel roof (all buildings will have this, I intend to have enough power for the entire property)
- Green house ( one of several stages for farming different plants/herbs)
- Fish farm
- Hydroponic set up ( for green house and for fish farm)
- Kob building ( most of the buildings on site will be made from earthen materials and will be a group project)
- Chicken coop ( free roaming chickens with coop for egg collection)
- Miniature Donkeys and goats ( for lawn upkeep and to collect poo for fertilizer)
- Sustainable crops of different kinds ( will utilize hugel mounds, key hold gardens, many ideas for sustainability)
- Food forests (much of the property will be woodlands and I want to keep it that way, with trails to help navigate through and I will plants tree guilds and underlying edible plants throughout)
I will learn this and also there will be classes held on property for learning:
Make your own:
-soap, shampoo, conditioner
-house cleaners
- fertilizers
- pest control
- candles
- food (vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, etc...)
- clothes
- and more!
Currently, I have a few small crops I am tending:
-Watermelon (2 kinds)
- Pumpkin
- Edamame
- Avacado
- Oregano
- Dill
- Cat grass