Re:Ask HN: Is there a hippie commune for hackers?
by centuren on Sunday November 21, 2010 @10:53AM
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Can you provide more details on this? By "little cottage", I assume this was meant for one (you), and $130K might be a bit steep for a single-person, experimental venture. 10 AC is hardly a small area, though, and suggests potential to expand it to, say, a 3-10 person number. If the marginal costs required to increase water, electricity, etc, to support such levels don't add to the final price tag dramatically, it could be quite interesting.
Bought a 10 AC farm just outside Blanco. Was already certified for growing organic "elephant" garlic.
Had a little cottage, a well, with rainwater collection (I flushed the toilets with this, it was nearly trivial to change-over the plumbing.)
Dropped Cable into it (for IP).
Added 2KW of solar panels, and a 250 gallon propane tank.
Was into it for maybe $130K, fully paid-off.
Grew my own food, hacked some.
Got tired of living without other technology folk around, sold it.