I’m curious if anyone came to homesteading from a traditional career. How did you start? How much did land cost you? What are your monthly costs and do you have an income that can sustain them?
i haven’t started but my grandpa told me about making a fridge without electricity, like houses here used to have before electricity & cars came during the middle of the 1900-hundreds.
the concept is a large pipe going between the fridge-room, deeper below the ground and out several meters away from it, then up into the air in a stand-alone chimney. insect-nets on both sides of the pipe.
concept is: when the air is hot the earth deeper below cool. air that travels through the pipe turns cool and flows into the space.
These are called “earth tubes” or “ground-coupled heat exchangers” and they work because the ground below frost line maintains a constant ~55°F (13°C) year round - super efficent for passive cooling in summer without needing electricity, tho you gotta watch for condensation/mold issues.
