Your ideas please: How to live on land with no house and no utility hookups?
Question:Five acres of forested land. The temperature can be 100 degrees F in summer and drop to 20 degrees F in winter.
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Small travel trailer with gas lights and heat, cut down 2 acres of forest and build a house.
Build a house? Electricity is luxury, so it is not a necessity. Include a fireplace for heat and cooking. Bring in water from a well you dig or a nearby stream/river. Dispose of organic waste by burying in a consistent location. Grow fruit and vegetables for food and hunt/fish for meat.
I would start with shelter. A debris hut with walls about 3 feet thick or so should suffice. To build construct a dome like frame out of sticks leaving a opening for a door. Continue adding sticks until frame can support loads of leaves and debris. Throw leaves or other light debris on top until all of the walls are about 3-4 feet thick. Bring some leaves inside for bedding. For food you should learn to farm to some degree in the warmer months and store what you can for the colder months. Be cautious of animals stealing your crops! Hunting and trapping is an indispensable ability when it comes to wilderness survival. It would be a good idea to familiarize yourself with wild edibles and wild medicinal plants in the area. Unless you have a stream or some other reliable water source, you may consider getting a water barrel to store water for the dryer months. I don't have the time to explain everything but an excellent book to get is Tom Browns Field Guide to Wilderness Survival.
Dig a Foxhole. The men in the service do it all the time!!!
I had a friend do this very thing until he could build his house.
He bought a Tuff-Shed - one of the larger barn models & had it placed on the property. It had to be under a certain size to avoid local code seeing it as a dwelling. He converted the top into a sleeping loft & underneath he put a sofa. He gutted out a crashed trailer from a junk yard & set up the sink, oven, heater, fridge using that with the propane tanks outside. Then set up a little outhouse with composting toilet.
It was quite the cozy & inexpensive shack. You can also buy a travel trailer or larger, like an Airstream, to live out of.
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