This is an alt (don’t want this on my main, that account is pretty well known.)
I posted about this in a mega thread a month ago, but would there be much interest in some kind of community to attempt self sufficiency and avoid climate apocalypse? I’ve been looking into off-grid resources, and have a decent amount of experience in an IT-related field.
I just have no fucking idea how to homestead or farm - and besides, what’s the point of living through the climate apocalypse if you’re stuck doing it by yourself.
I’m just trying to gauge interest here, but if you have any resources you’d recommend I’d love to see them.
I think the normal advice applies: an IRL commune formed by people who met online has self-selected to be comprised of people crazy enough to join an IRL commune of people who met online. Not that there's some genuine distinction between online and "real life," but there are probably hundreds of online communities where this sort of thing has appeared to gain traction only to then sputter out of life or spiral out of control.
You'd be better off by finding like-minded people in real life first, as the trust levels involved are pretty high.
Well, yes and no. You're definitely safer in a land that has plenty of water and farmable land, possibly on a mountainous plateau so it's harder to access it, sort of. But you get the point, better be say, on the French mainland, or New Zealand than say, in India or sub-saharan africa.
There's a site that lists a bunch of communes, can be filtered for specifics. IC dot org. I also saw a AMA once of someone who lived on a communal farm in Virginia and it sounded pretty dope although the expectation is full-time work.
I have thought hard about this, but not thought deep. I wanna do it but there are so many variables. If anyone reading this knows someone trustworthy with a lot of experience, it would be nice to have a discussion with them, possibly as an AMA here. Kibbutz, hippie communities, organic farms; there are people who do this and it works, who could advise us. But where to even start?
Btw I don't mean start one, that sounds crazy and difficult, I mean info and advice on joining an established one
As someone who grew up on a small scale farm it is hard, hard, hard work.
Most people are not cut out for 12-14 hour days with sporadic 20 hour days when shit goes sideways.
If you don't know how to do diy projects then you should start now if you're serious and not just thinking about this out of boredom. Also plenty of resources on youtube that are easily searchable. As for finding people online I wouldn't suggest it.
If you’re doing this, embed into your local community. Don’t just flee off grid.
im moving to another state or some shit with hippies if i ever can
i worked for four hours on an organic farm once and that was enough for this life. ask me next time.
I don't mean to be a wet blanket, but...
Other experiments in the United States included communal settlements at Blue Spring, near Bloomington, Indiana, at Yellow Springs, Ohio, and at Forestville Commonwealth at Earlton, New York, as well as other projects in New York, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee. Nearly all of these had ended before New Harmony was dissolved in April 1827...
Owen's Utopian communities attracted a mix of people....Some historians have traced the demise of New Harmony to serial disagreements among its members.
Social experiments also began in Scotland in 1825, when Abram Combe, an Owenite, attempted a utopian experiment at Orbiston, near Glasgow, but this failed after about two years
This has been tried many, many, many times before and they pretty much always fail.
Don't retreat into obscurity, help us comrades out in civilisation. We have a world to win.
I'm setting this up on my own, and all ya'll are welcome, you just have to find me on your own.
I've sent packages with return labels on them to some peeps here so it wouldn't be that hard.
I feel like a better or at least parallel idea would be trying to radicalize the Amish
