84 acre Virginia Commune | Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself

84 acre Virginia Commune
by DUST on JULY 30, 2011 - 14 Comments in I AM OFF GRID AND I WANT OTHERS TO JOIN ME

Going Off-Grid…currently a once thriving tobacco farm that we’re renovating (slowly) in need of help in the gardens and with the animals in exchange for a place to live and some food…a going commune…but am done with those under 25 who come and then do little if anything…need Doers not dreamers and talkers…beautiful area among the amish farms of Virginia’s southern Piedmont between Richmond and Raleigh…have a large beautiful but as yet unfinished cabin…a sharecropper’s shack…a pop-up trailer…and an old house used mainly for storage…John (GoldMiningGuy) is renovating a shorty school bus as living acommodations…sandra the farm owner offering a place to live and some food in exchange for 15 solid hours in the gardens helping with specialty crops that she has a buyer for…just not the help to get it done this year….and some help feeding and watering Sicilian Donkeys and chickens and Penny the rescue horse. Going off-grid but still has phone and internet and limited electricity…an RVer with a smaller rig would be welcome. Prefer nobody under 25 as they all drift off to the city lights and don’t get it when it comes time to get up early and work in the gardens for a couple hours a day! She also has little side businesses on eBay and etsy and flea market selling.

14 comments

1 Chad { 08.04.11 at 6:14 pm }: Hi, please email me.
2 abbiegrrl { 08.06.11 at 10:47 am }: Hi. My husband and I are intrigued by the community you are establishing, and we’d like more info if possible…
Thanks!
Abbie & Brent
3 Susan { 08.08.11 at 8:50 am }: I’d like to come down and try it for a while. I’m 50 and have some field work experience. I don’t mind long hours of hard work but I’m not into being pressured to do things more quickly than I’m able. If you are patient with my learning curve, perhaps I could come and help out.
4 abbiegrrl { 08.09.11 at 6:22 am }: P.S. Please contact me @ just a grrl (minus the spaces) at live dotcom. Thanks!
5 eee { 08.11.11 at 10:08 pm }: Hi I am interested in coming to help work on the farm please email me at bambu at gmx dot com
6 jack crews { 08.15.11 at 6:29 pm }: not much of a farmer but i am a carpenter and have tools, 45 years old, please email me and tell me how i can help out with what you need getting done
7 mike { 08.16.11 at 12:56 am }: jack, please email matapeake@msn.com
thx
8 Dawn { 08.20.11 at 11:48 am }: I have been wanting to go off the grid forever !!
I am hard working,have some knowledge of gardening,remodeling,repurpose,recycle,reuse.Im not a pampered gal,love the outdoors,simple life! Email diagazo23@yahoo.com
9 Chris { 08.29.11 at 2:56 pm }: Hello, I’m very interested in coming to live and work on the farm long term
please email me with additional details
10 Eric { 09.17.11 at 1:13 pm }: Extremely motivated 30 yr. old male. works well with hands, green thumb too. already planned on moving off grid, hard worker, with a puritan work ethic. seriously interested in donating my labor and efforts to sustain my living for years to come, if it should be feasible to all parties that is. reach me : raw _ skratch @ yahoo . com[no spaces] (by the way, im no 25 year old without drive, im ready to do this!) looking forward to hearing from you!
11 Larry Lancon { 11.28.11 at 4:55 pm }: I’m interested in hard work. Living off of the grid is compelling. I would love more details, I’m 39 and a hard worker, I have various skills to offer a community.
12 Amanda and Kevin { 12.22.11 at 4:00 pm }: We live near the Louisa/Hadensville area for quite some time and have been looking for something just like this. We are very open minded and easy spirited, yet hard working people. please email me at dmbfan4136@live.com thanks and blessings <3
13 joe { 01.02.12 at 8:53 pm }: hey im 18 and i graduate high school this year. i know you said youre done with people under 25 however i am a hard worker and have some carpentry, gardening, and metal work experience. if youre still looking for people toward the summer of 2012 id love to come out. please email me at joebreece1994@gmail.com so we could further discuss the situation. thanks
14 anthonylb { 02.05.12 at 1:12 pm }: Can you please contact me at rumbamore at yahoo?
Im a 40 very healthy male, Im a hard worker, native american, Italian, naturalist, scuba diver, musician, artist type… Im open to Natural living, please get back to me, and tell me more.. thank you..

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