Congratulations! I'm on year two living off grid here in New Mexico as well👋🏾 just me and my two dogs. I am building a Sandbag House solo... The struggle is real😤 but I am determined 🌎🛖 keep up the good work 🙌🏾👍🏾👍🏾
We started full time RVing in 2017. Made our way up to WA where we work camped for 6 years. My Rheumatoid arthritis was off the chain from the moisture and finally realized I was suffering from seasonal depression from the 8 mos of rain. We too have made our way down to New Mexico where the low humidity has put my RA into remission without meds for 2 years now. We started looking for off grid property outside Taos but my wife really needs to be closer population center for her work. New Sub, look forward to future videos.
@@RV_Chef_Life Glad to hear the move has improved your health! That’s amazing! I looked in the Taos area for years, even made offers that mysteriously fell through. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. I finally found land in Cerrillos, almost dead center between ABQ and Santa Fe - a half hour in either direction. I really love it out here. When I’m home I feel the immense desert solitude, but when I need to go to the city I’m not far at all.
Holding the water up from running off will also recharge the ground water. For sculpture with cement mixture, it was a wire frame packed with scrunched up paper inside the frame then cement. I think people just use spray foam and not paper now. Some really nice homes have been sculptured the way you are trying to do things with cement. You even have ferro cement boats.
I appreciate the comment. I've been working with/experimenting with ferrocement for about 20 years. It's amazing how versatile it is. But one thing still eludes me: getting the strongest mix possible. I know that the ancient builders made cement that was stronger than stone - way stronger than Portland cement nowadays. Once I find that optimal mix, I think I will have found the holy grail!
Hey your videos are getting better and better too, Mr. Cow. Be sure to share the links to the videos that helped you in the description - to really pay back, cite, share. But I'll say for myself, though at the moment I have no interest in doing what you're doing, this gives me some feeling for how I could share what I'm doing. So thank you brother.
I’d really love to see what you’re up to, so I hope you’ll do a little chronicling of what that is. Great suggestion on including more links. Here’s a recent one: th-cam.com/video/cc3-3s115mM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d4OCnCBrf1E2fTyR - but there are so many more. Right now I’m doing hands-on research on how to garden and bring water to the desert. The above link shows one way, one of the best that I’ve seen, on how to that’s done. I’m learning…even how to make these little videos better, more informative, maybe even a little more entertaining. Cheers, my friend.
@@nana-l5v6s I did! I scoured online resources mostly - like realtor.com and Zillow (plus other ones that focused on raw land sales only). Those helped tremendously, but there’s no substitute for “boots on the ground” exploration. I also found a very good realtor that I worked with, and have continued to work with.
Congratulations! I'm on year two living off grid here in New Mexico as well👋🏾 just me and my two dogs. I am building a Sandbag House solo... The struggle is real😤 but I am determined 🌎🛖 keep up the good work 🙌🏾👍🏾👍🏾
We started full time RVing in 2017. Made our way up to WA where we work camped for 6 years. My Rheumatoid arthritis was off the chain from the moisture and finally realized I was suffering from seasonal depression from the 8 mos of rain. We too have made our way down to New Mexico where the low humidity has put my RA into remission without meds for 2 years now. We started looking for off grid property outside Taos but my wife really needs to be closer population center for her work. New Sub, look forward to future videos.
@@RV_Chef_Life Glad to hear the move has improved your health! That’s amazing! I looked in the Taos area for years, even made offers that mysteriously fell through. Guess it wasn’t meant to be. I finally found land in Cerrillos, almost dead center between ABQ and Santa Fe - a half hour in either direction. I really love it out here. When I’m home I feel the immense desert solitude, but when I need to go to the city I’m not far at all.
Holding the water up from running off will also recharge the ground water. For sculpture with cement mixture, it was a wire frame packed with scrunched up paper inside the frame then cement. I think people just use spray foam and not paper now. Some really nice homes have been sculptured the way you are trying to do things with cement. You even have ferro cement boats.
I appreciate the comment. I've been working with/experimenting with ferrocement for about 20 years. It's amazing how versatile it is. But one thing still eludes me: getting the strongest mix possible. I know that the ancient builders made cement that was stronger than stone - way stronger than Portland cement nowadays. Once I find that optimal mix, I think I will have found the holy grail!
@@utopiancow like Roman cement. I like that sea water was the hidden ingredient.
Hi thanks for your content. May I ask what county you’re in? Thanks
Hey your videos are getting better and better too, Mr. Cow. Be sure to share the links to the videos that helped you in the description - to really pay back, cite, share. But I'll say for myself, though at the moment I have no interest in doing what you're doing, this gives me some feeling for how I could share what I'm doing. So thank you brother.
I’d really love to see what you’re up to, so I hope you’ll do a little chronicling of what that is. Great suggestion on including more links. Here’s a recent one: th-cam.com/video/cc3-3s115mM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=d4OCnCBrf1E2fTyR - but there are so many more. Right now I’m doing hands-on research on how to garden and bring water to the desert. The above link shows one way, one of the best that I’ve seen, on how to that’s done. I’m learning…even how to make these little videos better, more informative, maybe even a little more entertaining. Cheers, my friend.
Awesome! How did you find the land? Pls share resources you used. I'm interested in buying land in the high desert of NM as well. Thanks.
@@nana-l5v6s I did! I scoured online resources mostly - like realtor.com and Zillow (plus other ones that focused on raw land sales only). Those helped tremendously, but there’s no substitute for “boots on the ground” exploration. I also found a very good realtor that I worked with, and have continued to work with.
@@utopiancow Would you share the name of the realtor?
@ you can email me at utopiancow@gmail.com and I will give it to you directly.