18. Guide to Buying Cheap Land for Financial Freedom

Having weathered the trials of drinking from a stream that gifted me giardiasis and tamed the stubborn infertile land of my homestead, I'm here to share the raw truths of off-grid living. Discover how to stockpile the essentials and select the perfect patch of land for self-reliance, while weaving through tales from Ontario's historical homesteads. As your guide, I'll recount the saga of reclaiming soil, the dance with local wildlife, and the art of cultivating a sustainable life from the ground up.

Venture with me into the world of sustainable livestock farming, where the pastoral idyll meets the economic grindstone. You'll hear firsthand the peaks and valleys of managing cattle, the surprises in raising pigs, and the conundrums of poultry farming. I'll unravel the financial narrative behind organic feed, the paradox of egg production, and the personal reckonings with the true cost of home-grown meat. If you're contemplating the balance between sustainability and practicality, prepare for an expedition through the pastures of experience.

Finally, we'll step back to survey the expanse of sustainable homesteading, weighing the importance of infrastructure investments against the backdrop of a 70-acre rotational grazing operation. You'll glean strategies for intensive soil improvement, how to incorporate wildlife habitats into your farm design, and how blending hunting, fishing, and foraging with cultivation can forge a self-sufficient lifestyle. Join me as we craft a vision of land stewardship that nourishes both our families and the ecosystems we inhabit. Remember to subscribe and ring that notification bell for a continuous journey into the serene embrace of cabin life.

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Speaker 1: 0:01

Hey everybody, welcome back to the cabin. Alright, I'm going to continue with my talks on this channel about self-reliance and where to start. If you're new to the channel, my name is Sean James. I'm the owner of this channel myself, or Sean James, as well as the channel myself for alliance, and lots of videos five, six, seven hundred videos, maybe more than that, not sure, but I've been doing this for ten years, essentially the online content, and I've been preparing to live off grid for well, I lost my business in 2010, so I've been doing self-reliance type stuff to get back on our feet since then, essentially 2011.

Speaker 1: 0:47

So in the last video, I talked about getting some basics put away. If you're new or young and you're just starting out or not even if you're young, I guess, if you're just starting over or starting out, then just getting a few things put away, and what I suggested was getting some food put away, so a few five gallon pails full of grains essentially grains and beans seeds and that kind of gives you a buffer of a month or two just to get well, for one thing, let's say, you lost your job. Then you wouldn't have to buy food that month. You could survive on that. So that's why I'm suggesting something as basic as that. And then also water. I've got stream of fresh water, but it gave me jardiness so I've got to be treated, but it's surface water that I can filter and drink, which I have been doing, so I've got all this water around me. I live in an area that's got so many lakes, so much fresh water I think we might have the most fresh water in the world actually Ontario, canada so water is not an issue as far as accessing or getting that water, but I do have to treat it. So that's what I'm suggesting is always have a way to treat the water.

Speaker 1: 2:00

But one of the questions I get and it's kind of premature for most people is what they should be looking for in land. What kind of land, what size especially should they get? And that really depends on where you are, your climate and also the conditions. I'm going to show you something down here in the garden. But basically the two pieces of property that I own Let me think back. Well, stick with these two for now.

Speaker 1: 2:26

Two pieces of property, ion were former homesteads. I'm not sure what our act was called, but it's basically like the US Homesteading Act. We had something similar back in the 1800s here. So there were land grants and I think there were 100 acre parcels, most of Ontario's divided up into 100 acre parcels. So what? 330 feet by 1300 feet, roughly 1300 meters yards, it's that no. 1300 feet by 3,300 feet is the dimensions of the 100 acre parcels. They were granted, with, you know, obvious system variances, but they were granted to European families mainly and they had to come over and develop them within a certain amount of time and I think they had to have them converted to basically farmland growing food within a, say, a year or two in order to be granted title.

Speaker 1: 3:24

So this piece of property, I know for sure a lot of people died here on this piece of property and in this area because they tried to farm it and the soil was so poor that disease basically took all the children and just really tough times. They ended up just converting it to a logging area, so lumber, so fully clear, cut from what I understand, right down to nothing, and then probably all the soil that was here, even that they had built with their livestock and crops, would have been probably washed away or rotted into the stream and washed out to weigh down the ponds and streams and rivers and out to the Georgian Bay, so, and then out to the ocean maybe even. So, it's really really infertile that the problem right here specifically and this would have been from glaciation is that this is really sandy and rocky. So I've got I don't even know how deep the sand goes, but way down I dug this foundation and I literally found I think I said three pebbles or something like little rocks in this entire section. It was literally just sand. In fact, I could dig, and I started digging in March when the ground was still frozen everywhere else, because this was sand not holding any water. You could just dig into it as if it was still summertime Crazy.

Speaker 1: 4:42

But some of my challenges okay, how, in modern times, with all the knowledge we have about soil building and food growing, especially on a small like homestead level, what could I do to improve the soil so that I could grow things here? So I'm going to show you just this garden down here, what you could grow on it. Yeah, let's start with that. I'll show you that. Walk down to the garden Coming. That's my gate. I didn't get around to building gates and there's four entrances to this garden and the moose have been coming in and browsing.

Speaker 1: 5:27

I topped off all my fruit trees and I knew that was going to happen eventually, but I was hoping that our activity would keep them out. But they just come in at night and they wander around like they did before I was here. They literally circled the cabin and they knocked over. You saw that video my deer target a couple of weeks, a few weeks ago. But the problem is this would have been one of their kind of their. This was really really thick, like specifically right here, but they would just browse and kind of walk along this meadow edge. So I've interrupted their pattern here.

Speaker 1: 6:05

What I have here is a south facing slope so slight slope facing south, and I've got these big pine and spruce trees and fir larch. There was a couple of big red maples in here, yeah, a couple birch and something else. A lot of few cherries and things like that. Hopefully that mic isn't too bothered by the wind. Problem is because it's sandy and then we have all these conifers is that it's really acidic. In fact, this is essentially a bog that whole meadow has. The water pretty much comes right up. The water table is like almost right at the top of the soil. I think quotation marks. It's not really soil, it's literally moss and ferns and cranberries and what do you call it? Spirea Alders. I can see lots of alders coming up, just really, really acidic. So it doesn't grow vegetables, basically, which is what I'm trying to grow here so I can harvest berries, like it's fine for blueberries.

Speaker 1: 7:19

There's all kinds of native blueberries around here the cranberries, bearberries, wintergreen, raspberries, blackberries must be some other berries, lots of berries cherries, black cherries, hot horned bean, so not high dense. Well, first of all, not even that stuff didn't grow in abundance. So there's lots of plants but not tons of fruit, like not enough to sustain me. So I'm converting this to food production. That great, big, beautiful pine tree that I love, that I've been keeping and I had kind of right behind the greenhouse before I took it down. I hate to take it down because I just love big old trees, but I'm going to take that one down because it's shading this garden too much and it's impacting what little growing I have success. Well, I've had a lot of success in this garden. I'll tell you why.

Speaker 1: 8:16

In a second I'm going to go back to the cabin and get out of the wind here so you can hear me properly. You can't see it, but I've got this wire fence that goes across the other three openings so it is stopping the mooks. I'm getting in there. I mean they could jump in or push through if they really wanted in, but there's not that much in there that's attractive enough to justify that one. There's lots of natural food for them. It's not even that cold, but I still have a cold and it's damp, so I'm actually struggling to breathe a little bit. So what I was showing you there I'm taking that big pine tree down because what it's doing is it's stealing moisture from the garden and then it's obviously providing or casting shade on part of it as well. I really do need the full quarter acre that I've got cleared there. It's about 100 by 100 feet and it's basically what I'm developing it as a food for. So the entire perimeter of the fence area, have what?

Speaker 1: 9:24

Blueberries, different things like chissandra, kiwi, hardy kiwi, hazelnut grapes, wild grapes and domestic grapes like wine grapes or grape juice grapes Thanks, sea buckthorn. Ahhh, a whole bunch of things like that, anyway. A lot of vining things. I'm trying to think of what else? Some obvious vines that are growing around. I can't think of them, anyway. And then throughout. I've got around the north perimeter. You can have hazelnuts there as well. I've got elderberries and then fruit trees randomly throughout, and then a ton of sea buckthorn which is not the invasive buckthorn that you might be thinking of, that grows in the southern US or, I guess, lots of parts in the US.

Speaker 1: 10:19

This is a nitrogen fixer. It's a sea berry. It's a really healthy food that you can eat the leaves and the berries from. But why I have it? For those purposes? But also because it fixes nitrogen, takes air more nitrogen essentially atmospheric nitrogen and through bacterium its roots, converts it to nitrogen that the plants can actually uptake, which is severely lacking here in this garden.

Speaker 1: 10:45

So, again, really sandy, tried to be farmed in the past, 150 years ago, failed, reverted back to a forest I don't know if that was the composition of the original forest, but nevertheless it's a successional forest has come back and I cleared it and created the garden there. Really acidic, really sandy, and I'm only able to produce things because I've been choosing acidic, liking plants that can handle lower pH and also because I've been improving the soil with a ton of wood chips that I've been making with all the branches and then straw that I've been bringing in and some manure, some compost that I brought in as well, and a little bit of soil that filled those beds, although a lot of those are also just rotten logs in the bottom with soil on top, which is another soil building technique. So I'm converting that slowly over time. It's been four years now.

Speaker 1: 11:45

I grew enough calories there, for I don't want to exaggerate this, but because it was between this and the other quarter acre garden that we were able to grow enough for four people Calories, but including also the meat. But for sure I know I can grow food if I grow it intensely in that garden to feed at least two of us and probably four of us if I concentrate on the right crops. So the right crops for us here and in these conditions mainly potatoes and other root vegetables. So really high calorie foods for per square foot of growing area. Now, potatoes is the best actually in the world for dense calories per square foot. Corn is the only one that even comes close. And then wheat. But they need much different conditions than what I have here.

Speaker 1: 12:39

I could grow barley Barley would grow in an area like this, but wheat is something that you need better, deeper soils for you get in the bread basket in North America, for example, like in the prairies, but here that would be a struggle, and corn is a really, really heavy feeder. You got to feed nitrogen especially like crazy, and I just wouldn't have that now. So because it's sandy, the water goes right through. It's not only nutrient deficient, it's also, like I said, acidic but dry. So that organic material that I'm growing or building on top is holding more moisture, but still not enough to grow corn without irrigating. And the problem with irrigation, the way I've got it now, is I water from the stream, I've got a pump, a gas pump, down there, and then 5 gallon pails for spot watering, but it's acidic water, so it's just making it worse if I keep doing that. So the goal this year 2024, is to start feeding the garden with rainwater off these rooftops, so collecting it for drinking, also collecting it for irrigation.

Speaker 1: 13:52

All this being said, if you are dreaming of homesteading, I'm going to get some heat for this, but forget about livestock, because you're probably so far away from being able to own a piece of property that you can raise livestock on but also build the infrastructure for if it doesn't previously exist, and also provide enough food, because here's the big lie about a lot even chickens, but especially larger animals If you don't have the pasture to grow the hay, then you're not self-sufficient. You don't have a self-sufficient homestead. You're not providing your own food Because you raise cattle with somebody else's land, because you harvest the hay from there Up here it's more than half the year. So, from personal experience, back in 2012 my wife and I actually became a registered breeder of these cattle but we got some Dexter cattle and we average had, I think we have, just two cows and a bull and these Dexter cattle are small Like the Diego was there in bull Cute little guy Like that big and really docile Half of what a full-size cow does or lasts, because they're good foragers as well, and then the two cows would have calves each year. So at most we had five animals on that field and we had a nine acre field that we were releasing and it was similar conditions to this Really acidic, poor soil and then it had some random like spruce trees and stuff growing up Pines maybe, but mostly I think spruce trees growing up randomly in the pasture and poor soil.

Speaker 1: 15:49

So actually was like putting alfalfa and clover and stuff out there Without lime and it was. Some of it was growing, but not enough to sustain them. Anyway, it was like late June by the time I could even get them properly on that pasture, even though our grass starts growing in May. Maybe it was early June, but not like abundant grass. So I'd try traditional grazing in small parcels, like one acre parcels and moving that around. But they would go through it so quick that by September, end of August probably, when we start getting drier weather, the pasture was done. So I was already buying hay. So let's say for sure full months would be September, october, november, december, january, february, march, april, may.

Speaker 1: 16:35

That I'm buying hay and then calling myself providing our own food A sustainable farmer or sustainable homestead Wasn't the case at all On the other nine acres that we had, because we had 18 acres and a barn in the middle and a little barn yard house and then 100 acres of bush, but it was basically swamped, couldn't do anything in there. The other nine acres I had planted Peas Like cowpeas, buckwheat, Lots of buckwheat, and then pasture done, pork, well fenced in an area for some herchage pigs and then I would feed them buckwheat and pumpkins and things, so didn't end up buying any food for those. Actually, we just take the entire buckwheat plants, take a side to cut it off, throw the whole plant in there. They would eat the whole plant, including the seeds, so they get lots of protein. So they fatten up really nicely doing that. So I was able to grow enough food for the pigs. But on big acreage, keep in mind the chickens.

Speaker 1: 17:44

If you've ever grown meat chickens, he's uh, we bought the white rock cross and I did several like over the couple years and and even at our house at the time I did some like ten at a time, and those things are just bred to be meat producers so that they get massive really fast. They have hardly any feathers on them so they're easy to pluck, which they look. So they look hideous. They're not. They can't protect themselves from the weather really well because they're not fully feathered and they grow so fast that their heart, they have heart attacks, they literally just fall over and die, and half them can't even walk by the time you're processing them. So they get up to like six, nine pounds in that range within a really short period of time I forget how long anyway, because they're so stupid and bread in bread and built for meat production.

Speaker 1: 18:43

They're not good foragers, so they're getting some food from the grass and the bugs and everything. And if you keep moving it, you know and you have cattle they're falling behind. You get the beetles and stuff out of the cow, don. They'll get some of the calories, but still not anywhere close to enough. And that is limited, of course, and seasonally, to when you can raise those. So you're basically are in the summer raising them. You couldn't raise them in the winter except for in a heated space, which, economically, not even sure if that ever works out. So that's meat chickens.

Speaker 1: 19:16

The laying hands because everybody keeps asking when we're going to get laying hands, why we don't have laying hands for for eggs and then for, like soup pens, when they finish later, like to get older. The reason is because one of the reasons is because it's not sustainable if you're not growing your own food for them. And again, in this climate, you probably growing your own, maybe growing enough food for them for five months of the year, so less than half the year, and you can keep giving them, giving them your food scraps like leftovers throughout the year, which is fine. It's great to feed them. That we always did and do or did. But it's not enough calories and not enough protein for them to lay proper eggs and for them to be healthy. So you end up having to buy grains. And if you're buying grains then again you're not self-sufficient. So everybody I know grows or not grows they buy all of the grains. And if you buy organically, we're pretty stringent about limiting chemicals and processed food from our diet, so we only buy organic feed for any of our animals in the past. So that's really really expensive now, like it's.

Speaker 1: 20:28

It didn't work out economically then and I, by the way, I was growing up to a hundred at a time of those chickens because I was selling the excess. So I was selling organic beef and chicken and pigs or pork to a market. But I wasn't making any money because the cost of organic feed at that time was high. But at least I think we're getting our stuff for free, our food for free, because there's just enough profit on what we did so. But now organic feed has gone up so much more that I guarantee you it'd be cheaper. It is cheaper for me to buy my eggs and probably my chicken, but I might do some raise some chickens for another reason. But to tell you eggs start economically sustainable either like if you are going out and buying and paying 50 bucks a bag for organic feed. I have all the calculations somewhere. Fortunately my website kind of died. I lost all the articles and stuff I had written, but I had done all the calculations on all calories of everything that I eat or that you would get off a home set or a farm and the eggs.

Speaker 1: 21:38

Like the cost analysis, cost benefit analysis of growing your own, raising your own chickens for eggs. It's not really economically viable. So that's unfortunate talks. So long my battery died. Oh man, we're always.

Speaker 1: 21:56

I saw the chicken cost, cost of raising chickens for eggs. So the cost of eggs around me and I've got to neighbor relatively close. We have to go buy them anyway. So like past them, so by getting the eggs from them. I think we're up to. We've got two of them because one of them she only has, like I don't know, 10 chickens or something in their backyard and they're running around even down the snow and she feeds organic. She's at eight bucks a dozen and I think the other ones at six bucks a dozen.

Speaker 1: 22:29

But again, if you do the math on that, that it's so, it's not, it's. No, it's not more sustainable for us to have around chicken flock because we're buying the feed, so we're going to buy something. We might as well buy the eggs from somebody who likes doing it and wants to do it and maybe has the set system set up already to do it and we get to support them and what we typically end up doing, like we do with our other farmer that provides some stuff to us that we can't mention. We barter, we grow things and I harvest wild game and fish and stuff and we actually just trade. So there's a benefit that way too. So it makes sense for us to get our eggs that way. Not that I don't want to get it chickens again, I'm sure we will. But I need to figure out, solve the food, feed, chicken feed situation before we get back into a flock of chickens.

Speaker 1: 23:22

Okay, so I hate killing people's dreams, but so that's the main livestock things. I don't know about goats. I've never had them, or good friends have a lot of goats, but she doesn't make money on the meat and she's still feeding them grain for the most part, because again, she have acreage and proper food. You have to buy in the food like we'll bring Christmas trees to her and stuff and things that goats elite the Christmas trees but mainly for deworming, not because there's a lot of calories in it for them. So it's probably more economical in a place like this, or rough land, like not productive land Goats, that it would be.

Speaker 1: 24:05

A lot of the other livestock sheep might know if my sister ever again made money on her sheep because she had to buy hay for half the year even though she had. Well, no, she ended up okay, just disclaimer for all of this. If you have enough land and it's fertile, then you can do all of these things. So my sister got to the point with her 70 acres. She had the right amount of animals on the land that they were improving it with the maneuvering of the, the pastures because she was able to rotate them. So she had lambs or like sheep and cattle and, well shit, pigs and stuff, but those are the things that were rotating through the land of manu area. And then she had hay. So she got to the point where she didn't need to buy hay. So I'm not sure where the calculations exactly. I'll have to ask her how many I Did at one point, but how many acres she figured she ended up needing per animal to have them pastures themselves during the summer, the growing months, and then Enough hay off the other fields to provide enough hay for the winter, because she was very, very organic as well.

Speaker 1: 25:18

It doesn't feed any grain to the cattle. Anyway, they say an acre per cow is enough, but then you would need at least that again In our area, especially for hay, and probably, if you can assume, the one acre. For if it is only four months, well, let's say you have better soil and you can get five months of grazing, then you're, you know, seven months of hay, which means you're probably with two cuttings in a typical year. Here You're probably gonna need double, I would say, that acreage. So say two more acres per cow. So three acres per cow of actual pure grass, pure like hay, and even that's optimistic. I think it might be worse than that. And then straw, if you're forbidding, and stuff too. So you're gonna grow your own grain stuff, bro, not discouraging anybody from From raising animals, just be realistic about it.

Speaker 1: 26:19

And if you have to build infrastructure or you're doing it for the next generation, you're not doing it to save money for yourself. If you're putting up fencing and I did that at that farm and put up electric fencing around the whole perimeter, because the old page wire fence had deteriorated and fallen over and everything. So I propped it up where I could and then put electric fencing everywhere. But if you do that and then a barn, if you have to build a barn or run in shed and then for chickens a coop and a Pen to keep the animal, the predators out, which is a real problem if you never raised birds, really really hard to protect them from raccoons, and here weasels and and Well, we've fishers and and martins especially here, but in raccoons it's really really hard to protect them. So building all this infrastructure Just sets you back your, your, your payback time Significantly.

Speaker 1: 27:16

So again, do it if you like to do it, but don't do it thinking that's your dream, that you're gonna Build a place like me from scratch out of the forest, like I have, put all those things in place and then Economically have a payback. It's just not gonna happen in my lifetime and it's not viable here. So what am I doing? What kind of land should you buy? I bought these degraded land lands, properties because they were cheap, relatively cheap. I bought agricultural land like in this size, it would be five, ten times what I paid for these things. So that's why I ended up what a with what I got, knowing that they weren't gonna be super productive, but what I can, what I have been able to do on both properties Concentrate on a quarter of an acre each of Soil improvement, growing acidic crops like potatoes and blueberries and things like that that do well, until I can improve those conditions by adding more organic material, building up the soils, adding wood ash and even lime in a couple cases and I'm gonna try adding more lime here so amending the soil to the point where you can grow intensely in a smaller area all of all of the calories you need from a.

Speaker 1: 28:29

Well, I would say, grow all the calories you need, period, if you can, and then Meat is going to be a bonus. So you can always barter, trade or store that, those vegetable food foods for long term or, like I said, for trading. But If you do that, and that's your fallback, that's your, your safety, your security, and then that food meat on top of that. So for me, because I'm not gonna be able to like improve the land at a scale that I could grow livestock on this property they tried it in the past, like they said, and fail. But what I can do is improve the habitat for wildlife.

Speaker 1: 29:10

I'm hunter and a fisherman. I have my trapping license. I forage, gain quite a bit of knowledge about all of those things over my lifetime so I'm able to get a lot like this year. I got enough calories for more than two of us strictly from harvesting from the wild, but if you combine that with the fruits and vegetables, enough food will easily for four of us. So that's what I'm able to do in my area. Now you can't do that everywhere and maybe there'll be years. I can't do it here, but by improving the land, like what I'm doing here, like cutting you'll see by this drone footage.

Speaker 1: 29:49

Back behind here, 125 yards, I've got a food plot that I'm about to put in. So I'm clearing the trees. I've got the path, that new trail that goes back through there. I'm cutting other areas so the sunlight can reach the forest floor, which it's not doing right now, which creates a flush of new growth of trees and saplings and other herbaceous layers. That's going to increase the burying hair population, which is hair is basically a rabbit, if you don't know that. But we don't have rabbits here. We have hairs just that one kind of hair and then growths. I've got quite a few growths but they'll vastly grow in population.

Speaker 1: 30:28

As I do this habitat improvement Deer. I'm on a fringe like it's more of a moose area, but I have enough deer that I've been harvesting them in the area on both properties and by increasing the food for the deer I'll increase the deer population, which means more of my family members can can harvest, like my wife has her hunting license, emily has her hunting license and sister and niece, so we can harvest, sustain, figure out the sustainable harvest level and then make sure we increase, improve the land, or this is my project. This entire property is all my building, my gardening and everything. I don't have help with anything on this property other than my wife. You know doing some, you know housekeeping stuff with me and and obviously advice and support and all that kind of stuff. Not great woman, but she doesn't have to help.

Speaker 1: 31:22

I'm saying here on this property, this is my baby, this is me getting this ready for for us to live on, but it's done tasks with it because she's dealing with the other homestead. But anyway, we could all be harvesting enough food here on this land for meat and bears too. I'm adding a lot of the nuts and berries and stuff that I'm adding throughout the entire property, including the garden. Here I've been proving the bear population as well, which I've been harvesting, and if I can get moose tags or if we're in a survival situation. There's tons of moose and as I clear stuff the moose population increases. So that's what I'm focused on. And then I've got lakes within walking distance on both properties that I can harvest. If I hit all the species, I can sustainably harvest a lot of fish, actually a lot of fish calories, what they would impacting the population because they're not heavily fished and they're not species that are really heavily targeted for the most part, or I've got enough variety that I can target the less desirable species.

Speaker 1: 32:30

So just getting too long, I'm at the point where I'm telling too much of the story. But basically, to answer that question about what kind of land and where to get land and all that kind of stuff, start off small if you have no intent, or stay small if you have no intention of getting livestock because of the reasons I just laid out. So if you think I can't get into this because I can't afford a 50 acre or 100 acre parcel with pastures, don't worry about that just for relationships with people that do have that kind of land and either buy your beef or your meat or barter for it, trade for it or fine hunting land, whatever, like. We're surrounded by crown land. Here. I can hunt publicly, even if I didn't own this land, so there's always ways to get to your your meat.

Speaker 1: 33:17

But don't think that you're not a homesteader or you're not able to live sustainably unless you do that, because sustainability and homesteading is also community. So build a community and be valuable within that community, providing what you can, and then rely on others, which is not counter self-reliance, it's just different form of self-reliance. So reliance is to, you know, rely on other people for what makes sense and then, but be a provider too, so that you're not the. You're not, you know, needing to take from others or even to buy from others without having something valuable that you're providing in exchange. That's the best way to operate anyway. Hope that answers your questions.

Speaker 1: 34:06

But if you're really serious about land, look at the graded land less desirable, out of the area, out of the way. Like this, no possibility of getting power to here or any utilities ever. So that makes us cheaper forever, except for somebody who wants to do what I'm doing, is willing to be off-grid into. Well, if they were to buy this off me, for example, in the future it's gonna be fully self-sustainable. So cares of it, has utilities, but that takes some hard work to get it to that point. So, anyway, to me, I love doing that. So that's what I would suggest find some cheap land that's undesirable for a reason that you're going to remedy and that you can find happiness on anyway.

Speaker 1: 34:52

Alright, that's it late, as always, if you're interested, and then, I guess, subscribe. I never asked people to subscribe or to hit that notification bell, but, yeah, it's free to subscribe. You hit the bell and hit all. If you want to get all the content and I will continue on this channel to talk about this and if you're interested in just seeing sort of the quiet, reflective life of self reliance in a cabin or in the wilderness on either of our homesteads, then my self reliance is my channel, where I put longer farm videos and more cinematic and I spent a little bit more time editing those videos so they're a little bit more enjoyable to watch. Anyway, thanks for watching. Appreciate it. I look forward to seeing you back here at the cabin next time. Take care.