The Great Desert Experiment is coming to an end

After 4 1/2 years of building a home and a community in the northern Nevada desert, we have decided it is time to move on. A number of things in our lives have changed, and we feel the need to be closer to family. So, at the end of this month, we are moving to Maine. We hope to sell our 10 acres with a well, a hand pump and a solar pump, 1 kw of solar powering the 5-room cabin, a 600 watt wind generator, a gasoline generator for backup, the studio building, which could be a guest house, the barn and chicken house, an Old Hickory shed for a workshop, a shipping container, two composting toilets, and an assortment of fencing, including about 2 acres under electric fence for horses. We heat with direct-vent propane heaters, cook on a propane range with ignition powered by 9 volt batteries, and heat water with a 10 gallon RV water heater. Water is pumped into a 225 gallon tank by hand or solar (when it is fully installed), and from there into the house via an RV pump, so the shower, sink and lavatory have fully pressurized water. Our only utility bills are for propane and trash (the dumpster in town). If anyone is interested in a fully off-grid homestead, send me an email at hrpriter@debracthomas.net 

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