California For Homesteading ?
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Must have been a mistake when you called that good area big sur. Big Sur is south of Monterey Bay.
If you have the $, there are plenty of 1+ acre homesteads in So Cal with a gorgeous year ’round climate. Pasadena, San Marino, Sierra Madre and much more. Money buys seclusion, safety and privacy.
I was really looking forward to hearing what you said about Cali. People love to hate it but I sure love California myself.
It’s 85% desert, it’s population is well over the carrying capacity of the land. It’s a net food consumer by tonnage of food, it’s claim of being a net producer is #1 from pre-2018 statistics before a 4 year drought stripped the soil #2 is based on dollars not tonnage, charging more for food doesn’t make a state a net producer.
@@mosheshekelsteinspanbergbl5624 oh thank you for this information that I care so much about. Cheers!
The west coast of Mexico would be cool
Very solid evaluation Curtis and thanks so much. Big Sur is down below Monterey, but otherwise spot on. I’m in the foothills above Sac, in Nevada Co, and boy is it hot and dry in the summer, but around that, delightful. Wells can be spotty in the fall/winter, but we have access to county irrigation water which is a savior. Fire insurance has gotten so far out of control (currently close to 1% prop value, similar to prop tax), with no end in sight. Conservative values, which holds true to pretty much for all of rural CA. I do also love those costal Nor Cal counties as well, but we need a major political uprising if we are to have any hope with being able to homestead in CA. Unless you are comfortably retired, then even if you own your property outright and produce 80% of your nourishment, you will still be very hard pressed to carve out enough income off your land to sustain. I’m still keeping the dream alive, but will not be able to absorb any additional low blows…
Ooo cool…I was hoping Curtis would tap in to my State.😅
Trinity County, CA homesteader here, thank you for making this video! ❤ Hate being compared to the rest of Cali, but thankful also 🤔🤫😂 (Hidden gem of living in the less popular areas of Cali)
I’m from s. Calif. Would never move back, even if given a free homestead. Anti 2nd amendment, liberal ideology and heavy regulations and taxes
Mariposa County homesteader represented here! 🙌 Been waiting for you to make this video. My wife and I are a Real Estate Agent/Contractor combo specializing in Homesteading property. Mariposa County and Trinity County are the only non-incorporated counties in the state. I can list a myriad of reasons why these are the 2 best counties to homestead, in the whole west coast! They are light years away from the rest of the state. Our clients range from permaculturists, to preppers, to Christians getting ready for the Mark of the Beast Conflict.
Thank you. Would like to see North Carolina. You’re right. Northern California has beautiful, usable, and affordable land. But there are reasons, as a native Californian, that I’m not considering it. Those areas are absolutely bereft of everything….amenities, resources, and economy. All those “cities” like Ukiah and Redding along the interstate are literally just large truck stops. If you’re 100% self-sufficient, then it might be ideal, but I consider upper northern California to be one of the most desolate places in the country. And if you’re somehow earning an income while living there, you get to pay the same 9.3% state tax as people living in Silicon Valley.
Please do videos on MN and WI. Thanks!
I use to own 150 acres with a well and a cabin outside of Fort Jones, CA. I sold it 6 years ago and GTFO of California. It’s a beautiful part of the world but the people there will turn on you in a heartbeat.
I totally agree. I am in an inland valley east of San Diego, and there might be five or six sane people amongst the 3 million inhabitants here (if only I could find them!). All on imported water, too. I wanted out 25 years ago. Stuck af.
I have two homesteads . One just up out of the central Valley (next county over is Mariposa County -in response to the other poster ) and one in Mendocino county near your ideal green circle. 20 acres on one and 50 acres on the other. This YouTube Channel (Two Homesteads ) has been a real learning curve for me trying to learn to film and edit. I hope to get better but have been so busy trying to get things done on both places it’s hard. I grew up with black telephones and 8 people on the party line (4 on the party line when I was in college.). Both places are great for homesteading., The Delta Breeze makes the just out of the Central Valley Homestead doable . The sunsets are fabulous and I can see Half Dome in Yosemite and Mt. Diablo in the Bay Area.
Sooo, Butte county resident and we are having one of the worst summer heat waves I can ever remember, makes me want to move to East Washington state. But my son and I went camping near Gold Beach OR, and went through the redwoods on 199, and that was breathtaking.
The desert regions of california like borrego springs, Palm Springs, Joshua tree are some of the best places to homestead, of course, if you can afford some of the very few lots on natural springs. You could have a middle eastern style food forest with date palm over story trees.
You can do a lot in the desert beyond that… the less people know, the better
I bought a half acre in Bonita California. I have fruit trees. My garden is producing year round. I installed Solar so I don’t pay for electricity. I’m installing a water cistern to store the cool season rains. Chickens coming next. California has its problems but the natural beauty and the weather are incomparable.
I’d love to own a piece in Bonita… if you can handle the taxes…,one could totally live there with very little.
50 degrees Celsius?! . whoa. you could live in North Africa with less temp than that and still not wanna live! seriously, 50 in California. I had no idea!
The coastal areas do not get that hot. That level of heat is in the desert and the desert often cools off considerably at night unless it’s a heatwave. Palm springs just hit its highest ever at 124F.
Hey @user-mc3tp5sd2z, you know, I didn’t realize California could get this hot! Thinking about heading there, but I’m not quite sure where to start. I’m drawn to places with easy access to vibrant cities and good markets—small towns where life feels positively buzzing, yet not overly big or hectic, and definitely not overrun with issues like homelessness and drugs.
I’ve been chatting with some Mexican friends who’ve been there for generations, and they say it’s not quite the same as back in the 80s when I visited. They even feel a bit embarrassed about how things have changed and worry about hosting me now. So, I wonder if it’s tougher these days to find those California oases that used to have that old charm and a more peaceful, almost old-Western vibe lingering around.
Note, the SF Bay Area is full of micro climates. 50 miles and 50 degree difference is the norm, but also most expensive area in the USA.
Yep… you don’t want to live in those big ag areas… I was looking all around Cali, I’m from there, know a guy who was involved in the early years of crop dusting there and then ended up in Africa… and wanted to write a book… I encouraged him. But, I lived in an ag area… crop dusting all around and it seems so wholesome! Horrific.
I’ve been debating between NorCal and north east Tennessee. In San Diego now. My concern with NorCal is the government; Sonoma county just outlawed having chickens and Oregon seems to be trying to eliminate market gardens as well. What do you think? Is it a realistic concern that California government might make things difficult for homesteaders in NorCal?
Sonoma banned CAFO’s. Not backyard birds.