community forming in rural Arkansas?

Loohan · 2014-11-24 11:27:08

For some time i have had a fantasy of cool people moving to my area to form a loose-knit cooperative community based on organic food, permaculture, orgonite, etc.
I don't want people to send me money to create and administer such a thing; i'd like people who are financially self-sufficient (rare, in know) to buy land nearby.

The commercial food-stream has gotten unacceptable, and is becoming more so. Even for those individuals with access to commercial certified organic food (and the $$ to pay bloated prices). The organic standards are controlled by lizard clones in large corporations, who are in turn controlled by other ETs. Aside from the fact that the (corrupted) standards are difficult to enforce, and much fraud exists.

I would like to be mostly self-sufficient, food-wise, but i am only one 60-year-old skinny guy with other things i need to do. I can grow most of my own produce, but don't want to invest in what it takes to keep poultry, a milk cow, etc.
If there were more of us here, one group could do poultry, another dairy, another have a big pond with edible fish, and we could swap stuff.

Some ADVANTAGES to moving to this area:
Heavily orgonized with literally tons of resin-based items.
Local fuzz purged of shapeshifting repts.
Cheap real estate and property taxes.
No building codes. No permits needed to build.
Only one traffic light in entire county.
Hilly country less likely to get flooded.
Scant industry means scant local air pollution.

Some DISADVANTAGES:
Almost no economic opportunity. You need to be financially independent or have internet-based income.
For those dependent on (gag) mainstream medicine, limited facilities.

Stefan · 2014-11-26 20:14:12

This is something I have been longing to do.... However my skill set and economic wallet so to speak is not ready for it. It is a huge challenge in this day to live on the Earth in harmony. Makes no fucking sense but that is how it is today. UGH.

Stefan · 2014-11-26 21:09:02

One of my main goals in life right now, is to learn how to become more self sufficient. Like you are saying the most plausible and reasonable way to achieve such a task is with a community based objective. You cannot do everything on your own unless you have some highly advanced energy tech, which no one has right now due to the 'evil ETs' and 'Satanists'. I am 25 with a full time job and it is hard to muster up the motivation to learn how to do these things in my off time... Not impossible but it is tough in this culture... Especially in West Texas where everything seems to be completely reliant on the status quo.

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Oceana · 2014-12-23 14:13:16

Been looking at property in Arkansas, about 20 minutes north of Mountain Home, in an area around Gamaliel.
Acreage for sale at a reasonable price, at least for a Californian!

I was looking at 30+ acreage, one in particular was 86 acres with river frontage and a few ponds. Looks beautiful there.

So, Loohan, about where are you located?

Hows the weather in northern AR ?

Oceana

Loohan · 2014-12-23 15:33:22

I'm in 72645.
But Bal has land near Gamaliel. Clarkridge.

cosmicbal · 2015-01-04 15:10:19

I have similar ideas as Loohan's community. Partly why I'm trucking. The other reason why I'm trucking has pretty much served it's purpose. But would be nice to start a small close knit group of bold yet comfortable people on the same property. Sky's not the limits.

I didn't really want a community of neighbors, but it'd be nice though. I really just wanted a place of isolation and self Reliance. Greenhouse with fish AKA aquaponics(shielded from the acid rain and chem), music studio, science electronics lab and one of those things called a Sensory Isolation Chamber where you float in water heavily saturated with salt.

Basically a mini self sustaing resort of sorts. Gonna take me years to complete if I do it just by trucking, and alone.

.. Which leads me to an idea I've been mulling around for a few months. Crowd funding. Plus other sources of income. I don't know if I'd get the monetary response from "crowd" funding.. Unless I boldly tried it out; posted a video and detailed plans. And "investors" of certain amounts would have privileges, greenhouse goods, meditation/sauna time, etc. Probably would need a couple guest(weekly/seasonal) rooms for that. Probably would have multiple up n down scale versions correlating with whatever amount was raised.

A greenhouse with fish n veggies, isolation chamber for meditation, a small library/study, and a small music studio(already have most of the expensive equipment).

Currently I have 10 acres on beautiful land and a small cabin. Can't wait til my vision gets realized. Might sell 5 acres to someone else to jumpstart things.

Just throwing the smell of an idea out there and when I'm ready and have the time to, I'll post videos and plans and ideas on a website I'll make. Shoulda kept web designing/programming or even building construction as my career... Rusty now. Trucking and time for other things don't mix at all. But I'll make it eventually. Too bad I'm not a famous musician yet.. ;)

Pepper · 2015-01-04 21:36:19

Ever since I was a small child, I wanted nothing but to be a professional musician/singer. Unfortunately my entire life has been pretty much dictated by what my family COULDN'T afford. Then in adulthood, I was constantly flat broke. I somehow got by in L.A. by part raw talent and part what I call "societally-acceptable good looks", which, despite what the sheeple think, and what every artist with integrity knows, it doesn't get you very far in Hollyweird. Discovering all about the rabbithole of corruption, mind-control, etc. actually helped me a lot. I realized MAYBE there really WAS a reason I wasn't being promoted and "blowing-up" like was predicted lol. Around that point I wanted nothing to do with any of it anymore. And good thing. Trying to function having Aspergers and existing in a neurotypical persona eventually came to a breaking point, and now I am grateful as hell I wasn't in too deep in the entertainment biz when that happened. I would've ended it all for sure.

After I left "the Industry" I'd often daydream about someday, somehow, having the money to buy land. And where I wanted to live. My priorities are so different than they were just 5 years ago. My lifelong dreams of owning a big house with my own studio, different rooms each with different percussion instruments in them (hand drums in one, a monstrous drum set in another....), a backyard performance venue, blah blah blah.. have changed to more grounded, heartfelt dreams (and simple dreams to many folks who have experienced having a little money... I never have) of an organic garden, ensouled neighbors , and if I can afford it ...a cow. Oh, to have my own cow. My dreams are humble compared to what even I MYSELF thought I'd always aspire to have. But they've never felt so right.

I am moving out of the big city when my lease is up in the Spring. I am moving to Kansas. My elderly adoptive mom and adoptive sister are there. I'm not close emotionally with them, but at least I know I can look for work without being on the streets, and live in a less aggressive setting, which I desperately need in order to calm my own aggressions. My mom is probably not going to be around for more than 10 years. And when she goes, with the money she leaves for me, I will probably be able to afford to buy some inexpensive land. My ideas about "where" have become more clarified with the philosophy of this thread. The moment I read it I knew it was something I was onboard with... pending my finances. But for me, having something like this as a motivator is so amazing. Well worth waiting patiently for, and carefully planning for. I've been thinking about what my contributions to this community would be as well. Besides music, and the cow (fresh grass fed raw milk and other dairy products for all who want it), I would want to help others (who are right for this community) who can't afford to buy their own property. I was adopted from my homeland of Brazil very young, and likely saved from ending up on the streets. Ever since I can remember I wanted to "pay it forward", and help people who didn't have much financially. I couldn't think of a better way than to help deserving people to get into, and stay in this community. Options such as a barter system, odd jobs around my property for room and board, and just plain charity are things I plan to iron out details of, as time passes.

As more time passes in this crazy time space, this may prove to be one of the most important threads on here. And I'd be willing to bet that many forum members have mulled over the possibility of this as something tangible. So to all of you who WANT to think it could be done..... start a plan now. Because it CAN be.
Sim, podemos!!

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Loohan · 2015-01-05 10:43:54

One thing that has gone thru my head a lot, if there were money for it, is to have like a campus setting with a communal bldg complete with showers, laundromat, payphone, tables with internet hookup, fitness gym / dojo, steam room / sauna, terminals to charge rechargable tools, kitchen facilities, food exchange / refrigeration, tiny dorm rooms as well as possibly more comfortable accommodations, outdoor campsites, etc.

This way people with limited resources could come on a trial basis or long-term.
When i first came to Arkansas, all i had was 10 acres and a school bus. No ponds then. Even taking a bath was impossible at first. No electricitiy or phone.
Then i put gutters on the bus to fill a barrel, and also had small ponds dug to hold water, etc. etc.

So if someone came in a van/camper or had a yurt, or wanted to build a movable microhouse, they would have amenities at hand.
People could do various forms of labor to defray costs.
There are some good people out there who are targeted by the dark side and unable financially to escape the city. And the whole system is rigged to keep them subjugated and struggling, smart-metered and microwaved.

cosmicbal · 2015-01-06 21:25:45

Yep yep. Institutions! Haha! But seriously, I think communities everywhere are important for these times. Independent yet fully interconnected communities with micro economies.

"If you build it, they will come."

Loohan · 2015-08-10 13:21:11

TORNADOphobia?

Someone expressed concern that my area is tornado-prone.
well
Well, no place on Earth is completely safe from natural or "human"-caused calamities. So let's get a perspective on this.
Acording to
http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/to … arcy/table
my county has had 13 tornadoes since 1958, all between 0 and 2 on the Fujita scale:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujita_scale

And here is a map

captured from
http://www.tornadohistoryproject.com/to … Searcy/map

My location is approximately at the red dot west of Leslie. Notice that they all passed miles north of my location, except for 1 short one a bit west. A neighbor who has been here for decades says that the hills west of us tend to deflect them.

Ah, but i am near the southern edge of the county. What lies below?

No, you definitely do not want to live south of me. That's right in Tornado Alley.

Years ago i saw a youtube video of a guy in Europe aiming a big orgone wand at an approaching funnel cloud, which apparently made it fade away. (I "like"d the vid but can't find it in my youtube history, unfortunately.) But there is some circumstantial evidence suggesting it does work.

I have EXTENSIVELY busted and gifted the region SW of me for years, and always keep many powerful wands aiming that way. This is for several reason:
The nuke plant (which i have repeatedly heavily gifted and busted) is about 70 miles in that direction, upwind of me.
Because it is the prevailing upwind direction, this is also where chem-clouds tend to drift in from.
This region SW of me has also been unusually DORy and full of underground ETs, demons, and surface-dwelling SSers. It also seems to be some kind of interface with negative timelines.
Hence i have repeatedly and extravagantly busted the $#!+ out of the area, and always continue to blast it.
And any time a violent-seeming storm approaches from any direction, i aim wands/CBs at it.

Also there are ways to build wind-resistant houses and shelters, e.g. from shipping containers.
My own cabin has hurricane clips and is heavily constructed with 5/8" Advantech walls covered in Galvalume. This won't hold up to a direct hit by a strong tornado, but it will resist abnormal winds.
The foundation is anchored pier-and-beam with a way to readjust the height in the unlikely event that an earthquake shifts it off level.

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