Water front property is romantic (if you even have rights to the water), but at what cost? So we have a few options, one of which is drilling a well to tap the aquifer. When you’re property hunting on a budget expect to make sacrifices. While everyone wants these, they aren’t everywhere and even then they aren’t all rainbows and unicorns. In fact you’ll likely end up working the pros/cons list pretty hard to decide what you’re willing to give up and can live without.īringing that fantasy back to the point of this article we don’t have a natural free flowing source of water on our property. While we all have our perfect dream of what starting a homestead or living off grid should look like, the reality is that unless you’re the 1%, your first property won’t have everything that you want. Before we put an offer in on our property, we were admiring this river, and secretly (or not so secretly) hoping that we could find a lot that had similar river frontage. We envisioned buying 5-10 acres of land on a year-round creek with water rights or a natural spring, having a thick, beautiful forest with enough lumber to build an entire house without the forest looking bare, lush soil for growing endless food, a spot for a pasture to raise livestock, a view (a southern view at that for the solar potential), not too far off a county road so that we wouldn’t be responsible for plowing too much of a driveway (for starters), good drainage for septic, within our price range, and that the owner was willing to carry the contract. When you first dream of living off the grid and having a homestead, you dream up all sorts of crazy ideas. We’d like to share a solution that’s working for us and hope it helps you find your own solution. We also see that a lot of folks really don’t know where to start and what it means to have the water you need versus the endless supply of city utility. One very common question that is raised when discussing our our off grid journey is “What are you doing for water?” This topic conjures fear, or at least anxiety, in many people unless you’ve done this before, and for good reason! We need water to survive and can only go a few days without it.
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