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All of these suggestions are good. If you are unprepared the thing to look for first is birch bark, if there is none look around under indents or holes at the base of trees, there you will find very fine small bits of tinder. Go from tree to tree gathering all the dryest bits you can find. Then...

I'm totally loving your attitude here. Don't lose the passion. We can pick apart your words and your politics but whatever man your heart is in the right place. Keep that open slayin.

I think I understand your point and I do agree that there is something inherently wrong with land ownership. There is no way to grow healthy and learn the old ways without a place to set your roots. Someday the world I want to help imagine and create is one where ownership and money are...

Hi Coltsfoot! We know the Wilder Waters folks and I highly recommend Arthur's book, A New Path. I love finding other folks around the area making the lifestyle changes that will help us with a smooth landing.

Yeah for a while until industry floods your valleys and eradicates your food supply.

Fuck balls man. Gotta get a piece of your own land, do it the way you want. I'm in my early 40s man, Been wanting this all my life, so many years went by not being able to work it out. Just made it work eventually. Intention and gratefulness, there's something to say for it.

Getting ticketed for collecting rainwater? Jeesh, they'll do anything to make the simple life hard.

What's keeping you from living the dream?

That's cool, but can you elaborate on this: Do you mean to encourage more folks to live this way and dismantle the system so to speak?

I'm trying to set an example in my community of living off the land and society's wastes. No electricity or green tech. I'm still stuck with a car and a phone so that I don't become a hermit. I'm so comfortable with this lifestyle and it's so enriching and rewarding. I've only found 3 folks...

This is an old post so did you ever do it? We made it, from homeless to homestead, helped that I had a place to stay for free so I could save money. We are willing to give that opportunity back to others. I hope you find it.

We live in a town near Lewiston, Maine. It's Maine's second largest city but a tiny city in U.S standards. We have what I would consider an 'experimental' homestead. No codes in this town but there are state codes which no one enforces around here. It's totally possible.

I hope its working out for you man.

This winter was crazy, I just lugged wood and split wood and chopped wood and burned wood, oh and shoveled snow and lugged water. Fucking so happy the snow is almost all gone!

We made it! Found some land in Western Maine and built a little woodland fort last fall. It held up fine through a rugged winter. I'm learning to eat road kill and tan hides. The ground is finally thawed so I'm starting in on digging our root cellar so I can put food by this winter. water is...

I have children and was in a toxic relationship for a decade (the first three years were ok the rest was awful). I went through the legal divorce route. I did it without a lawyer, we did it without much of a fight, we didn't take things from one another and neither of us ask for money unless...

Yeah, it's nice to be able to grow a few plants without fear of imprisonment.

A pendulum on a string over a map is pretty groovy.

I'm looking for land, hoping to get something big and invite others in on it. I'm thinking somewhere here in Maine because land is cheap and laws and codes are few. We want community, mutual aid, neo-aboriginal lifestyles. If you are ever out this way come meet us maybe we can make something...

"You laughin now but you be cryin" In a thick Louisiana accent

I think Mutual Aid by Kropotkin will give you a good foundation.

I'm definitely looking at downeast Hillbilly Castro & wokofshame. We haven't gone out to spy the land there yet because we are waiting for the snow to recede. We are open to going in on land with others. There are some pretty sweet large tracks of land out there that are totally affordable. We...

Thanks Tatanka, we plan to stand strong. Yeah, he stopped walking and came home to help save money to buy land. We're not there yet, still slaving in with the system. We'll be breaking through soon, not sure where we will land but I'm itching to get there.

Oh man, the inequality has been around for thousands of years. I think its getting better but we've got a long way to go. As long as rich people who have gone mad from the metal fever continue to be allowed to build their empire and we all support them with our blind faith buying into...

In 2016 I ditched my techno-utopian deadbeat husband and moved in with my grandmom and helped her with her end of life care. She helped me out with a free place to live so I was able to pay off my debts and I helped her with geriatric stuff, food, medicine, etc. She passed away in November and...

I hiked most of the PCT. I did it real cheap. Let me know if you have any questions. It likely wont kill you. There are a lot of rattle snakes, big kitties and grizzlies out there though! They were never a problem though. My biggest problems were WATER and my energy level due to a serious...

I built a 14' diameter yurt one summer from scratch using only hand tools and I spent $80 all together. Granted it wasn't all that pretty on the outside because I only used layers of sheets, blankets and tarps but on the inside it was adorable. I made a lot of mistakes but used it for a whole...

Welcome from a fellow Mainah.

If I carried a weapon I would just hurt myself, I don' t consider my knife a weapon. My attitude and mind has kept me safe so far.

I've had the misfortune of being caught up in this attack on free speech debate. I've come out of it with the perspective that it is a strategy that white supremacists are using to normalize their platform which is a danger and I think that is the fundamental reason the far left is shouting...

I find it somewhat irritating that we need to classify it all into these neat little definitions. I appreciate scholars putting much thought into classifications and definitions and ironically I love to engage in the study of botany but we get too caught up in all that jive to make assumptions...

Seems honorable to express your disgust with a smartass comment given the situation. In that way you are offering her a moment of self-reflection where otherwise she may have just continued being an ass thinking it was ok.

1. She could have been exploiting being female so that you would step aside. I've known women that constantly exploit their feminine qualities to get an upper hand in social situations. I notice it because it makes me uncomfortable. I'm female but don't really fit in the gender expectations...

I lived in an amazing little squat in Lincolnville for 4 years but I gave it up to travel. It was surrounded by hundreds of acres of preserve land, had gravity fed water from a spring, no electricity. I miss that land so much, I still go back now and then just to wander around and gather...

I like to think I could disappear right here in Maine but I have kids so trying to disappear with them would just get us all into trouble.

I function best alone but I let it go too long usually and then I crave friends around. I have social anxiety issues so that makes me want to generally just stay away from people. I do miss people though. All the people I've played with or loved or found myself in wild places with, I miss all...

I didn't know there were lots of 'ocracys' invented/re-invented often. It's good I suppose, at least people are working at it. On the other hand it seems a shame though too if ancient ones continue to be re-invented maybe they don't really work or no-one has successfully implemented them. If...

1.) Are you a pacifist/non-violent? Yes 2.) If yes, to what degree? i.e. Do you agree/practice self defense/If someone hits you first unprovoked do you use the force needed to stop them even if that includes violent force, or do you have a "turn the other cheek" mentality? I've never been hit...

I'm not the one to answer that question, I don't know if it's possible. I definitely think the current and historical form of hierarchy for structuring society is detrimental. I wouldn't dismiss that a hierarchal order could be useful for some operational work in certain types of...

I think I see how my meaning was cloudy, I'll try to explain; This is the way I see that our society functions. People seem to think that progress is moving up in class, or at least trying to by working as much as possible in a crappy job for a paycheck. Garrett Graves' idea of full potential...

It's the organizational structure that we have created and that many seem to be perfectly comfortable in. If we aren't working to get higher up the ladder so that we can strive for that hope that > I too can get a piece of the pie < then we are not progressing. The way I see it the 'progress'...

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Sounds good. I like your attitude. How's the project going?

A friend of mine looked into purchasing a large press, he wasn't looking into corn but it could be worth a shot to try if you can get ahold press.

What say's the president to all the communities that lay victim of genocide at the hands of shell. Is that not terrorism?

I'm striving for greater understanding and unity of consciousness. A little plot of land to care for would be hella nice too.

That's an interesting take on it. If that's the case it would be good to have control over that splitting off, I wouldn't want to do that by mistake too often, things could get really freaky.

I had some heirloom Hidatsa beans I tried to grow them up a teepee shape made of saplings with corn planted around the perimeter of the teepee and the beans took extra trouble to grow away from the poles and found the corn and all the beans that found the corn grew beautifully. They have a...

Fucking people are frustrating. I don't know. Maybe we need some tactical ninjas to take down all the cell towers, the satellite receivers, the broadcasting system's technical doo dads and give people some peace and quiet from all the media noise. That's my little fantasy anyway. Also give...

Those things are freaky but it sounds like you have a friendly ghost/spirit/something? hopefully? I've definitely felt heavy duty presence of some sort of spirit or consciousness, I don't profess to know what it is but I do know how it feels. I feel it most with plant spirits, but those are...