/diy/ - Do It Yourself

The 4chan Farm Project (Formerly Project New Agartha), is for the establishment of a sustainable settlement and farm by and for 4chan. If you are interested, please visit our IRC at ( http://mibbit.com/?channel=%23AgrarianEven&server=rizon.mibbit.org ) and say hi.

Is this project for you?

For me, I have wanted land for years. I've saved up for years, and I know my dedication to the project is not on a whim. I know for myself that I will do this with or without help, and I view that as the attitude everyone should have coming in (in one form or another). However there are many roads, some longer than others. Some people are still in college and have obligations to school; after school they will have debt; and after that they will likely chase financial security. A lot of people in this situation also dream of owning land. No body gets rich farming, and if you're buying your ticket into the shrinking middle class elite with a degree, make sure that rural living is really what you're after.

It is not impossible, though. Marcin Jakubowski ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GEMkvT0DEk ) has a PhD in nuclear fusion and decided to create a sustainable farm and settlement that came to be Open Source Ecology, the holy grail of DIY.

The bottom line is the desire for freedom. Minimizing reliance on the landfill economy with all the inconveniences that entails; reducing your tax contributions to the government of endless war and corporate welfare; survivalism or DIY maker passion; the enlightened poverty of agrarian lifestyle; hippie environmentalism or many other motivations. They all synergize remarkably well, and the key is being serious enough about it to put in the work.

The 4chan Farm Project (Formerly Project New Agartha), is for the establishment of a sustainable settlement and farm by and for 4chan. If you are interested, please visit our IRC at ( irc://rizon.mibbit.org/AgrarianEven ) and say hi.

We plan to set up a farm by pooling money for 'shares' in the project. Launch date is May 1st, so we need to find the land we're going to buy and then get to it. It's only two months away. We're gonna do this fast and dirty. One share will cost $2k, and members will be able to sell their share if they decide the farm life isn't for them.

How you can help.

*First off, join the IRC! We need active people in there. ( irc://rizon.mibbit.org/AgrarianEven )
*Secondly, we need to find a site! They don't stick around for months at a time, and we need to find the site, visit it, and then buy it in a very short amount of time, so we have to get it right the first time. Find land for sale around where you live that you can go take video of and upload to youtube for everyone else to look at.
*Thirdly, save up money to buy a share. If the project doesn't go through, you'll have $2k to spend. If the project fails, you get your share of the money back when we sell out as miserable failures. If the project succeeds, your share will grow in value and you will live in a glorious 4chan utopia.

Finding land is not easy. We have a pathetic budget and lots of dealers will try to scam us with marsh land that sits 1 inch above the water table, or with detroit ghetto holes that have thousands of dollars in back taxes and huge city assessments to pay for repairs to the sewer pipe, the sidewalk, and to fix up the house (or tear it down and build a new one, lol).

Oh look it's this "Agartha" thread again. Except that's a stupid name, and you should feel stupid for suggesting it.

We're going to buy some land on May 1, go out there and start building our 4chan settlement. Why the fuck aren't you finding land for sale in your area that you can go take video of and upload to youtube for us, and posting the relevant details in this thread yet? It's like you don't even want a 4chan settlement. You monster.

What to look for:

*Access to internet ("utiltiies")
*South Slope
*High insolation (see pic of next post)
*Rains more than once per year
*20 acres or more.
*Less than $50k in price

Be cautious of:

*Land that sits on the water table or a marsh, which is soggy and permanently muddy.
*Land covenants that forbid altering the land, or neighborhood associations that will stick their nose in our business.
*Land that is held in common, with only a small lot actually directly owned.
*Land that is too far away that you can't actually drive to and check out.


Topography maps: http://mapper.acme.com/

IRC for browser: http://mibbit.com/?channel=%23kantachat&server=rizon.mibbit.org
IRC for IRC clients: irc://rizon.mibbit.org/kantachat
Shit tier forum: http://bneweden.runboard.com/f1

Open Source Ecology: http://opensourceecology.org/

Nevermind me, just posting a topo map of a possible site.