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are you planning to be stealth camping or you have a place to settle down for a while?
i live in a small city in the middle of a rural area and have some friends that 4 years ago went full hippie in a small piece of land they rented to a catholic order thas owns a HUGE area.
they are close to a river and where they settled there was an old and broken windmill that they fixed to get drinking water. they planted a medium size organic garden and live out of the crops and selling vegetables to the hippies and veggies in town.
they lived in tents for 2 years until they fell appart, and then they moved to small adobe houses that they built themselves (i helped), half of heir height digged under the level of the terrain, completed with reclaimed wood, windows and doors.
even if it's not my way at all, i must say that these houses are really comfy. i've stayed overnight in all of them in summer and in winter (0° to 38° celsius) and they perform beautyfully. pic related, one of the houses before finishined.
this guys are not the stupid kind of hippies. they work theyre asses off in the field. recently they rented 4 mor has. of land and they are harvesting organic rye, barley, wheat, etc, and earning a decent amount of money because organic pays more for ton, so they are planning to buy the land.
they are really frugal and strict in their life, which i think is a must to this kind of projects to endure. f.e., they welcome volunteers but nor drugs, nor alcohol is allowed in the community. they have not electricity, although they are thinnking in having some solar or wind generated power soon (here is windy as fuck).
they live pretty well, but to stay with them you have to endure all the hippie pachamama/motherearth culture, drums and panic flutes included.
