Arizona Is Tough For Homesteading….Where I Would and Wouldn’t Homestead
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Heck yeah. We moved down here after the plandemic from Washington state. 2 years later, we had our first kid and are now looking for an offgrid place to buy and use as a camping property at first, and then slowly turn it into a homestead. Thank you Curtis for doing these!
Arizona has lots of solid areas to homestead if ya not from here ya wouldn’t know about all the outdoor gems. Love ya content but ya off on AZ it’s top notch plus largest ponderosa pine forest in the world btw…..
Agreed, down here we have lots of stuff that makes homesteading great, in fact we have several Homesteader channels that are thriving
what are some good areas you would recommend? that you wouldn’t mind sharing =]
@@martin1sz Williams, Globe, Showlow
We ❤ Apache County
I’m glad he didn’t mention those hidden gems with trees, abundant water and decent soil.
Been waiting patiently for this, legally this is one of the better states.
Me too!!! lol
It is for now but we are having a lot of Californians/Illinoisans/East Coasties moving out here and they are working hard to change the rules. It is going to look like Colorado and New Mexico very soon.
Would love to hear your thoughts on Pennsylvania
We bought 20 acres in Arizona, but it’s the high desert so we get a little more rain and it’s not as hot. Our land is tall grasses, small trees and shrubs.
I would like it if you did one on Utah next 😅
I came here for family reasons and I have to be here
I am in my motorhome and just simply can’t afford the RV parks
I NEED something I can own to park and live in my motorhome
An RV lot or a piece of land
I would have never thought finding something in AZ would be so difficult
Please do Idaho so many people are concedering it the promised land. Also the area being called the Great Americon Redoubt. Montana, Wyoming, and Idaho.
Some of the nicer regions in AZ are on reservation land, just fyi.
Barren, hot but land is around $4,000 an acre or less 🤠👍
This is a “tell me you don’t know anything about Arizona…” video. Other than Globe, the go areas are weekend tourist/retiree areas. Cochise county is one of the most off-grid friendly areas in the country with water starting about 50′ down. It ignores all of Yavapai, that believe it or not has grocery stores, and while more expensive, anything west of Flag. The real problem with AZ is that the vast majority of decent land is national forest interspersed with gigantic farms and ranches. Find a decent piece of private property is the real challenge.
Spoken like someone who lives in az 🤝
When he lumped utah wyoming and idaho in with arizona in the first 3 minutes I was done. I love you Curtis but there is so much water in Utah Wyoming and Idaho, it’s not comparable to Aridzonea.
The ground water Is not 50 ft down in those areas normally, almost all the people in those countries haul in their water. Wells are very deep 1000 feet the answer atmospheric water generator
I live in one of the green areas. You’re exactly right, while beautiful, there’s not much water and not many homestead opportunities. Our well can cost upward of 1k per month just to keep some grass and pond full.
@@elliottjames671 That is just not true. Check the gwsi. There are plenty of sub 100′ wells in the basin with most topping out around 300 as terrain rises.
Az actually has snow in the winter in the higher elevations and there are 2 ski resorts. Not everywhere is pleasant in winter 🤪 Its not as bad as other places but its not all warm desert either. We are at 6200 ft. Growing stuff is hard here even though we are on a well and can water all the time. Zone 5b/6a.
Once you are settled in, if you are having to make 2 to 3 trips a week into the city, you’re doing something wrong.
I live in AZ (close to Tucson) after living in Texas and California. AZ is literally the wild west, homesteading is part of the culture here. The Sonoran Desert is the only desert in the world with two rainy seasons. Tucson is the oldest continually farmed location in the country (4,000 years). During the Civil War Sonoran Wheat kept the rest of the country from starving. Yuma is known as the ‘Winter Salad Bowl’. There is very few natural disasters. So I think it is a good state to homestead and plan to remain here.
Yes but there are PLENTY of man made problems coming your way.
The majority of those man-made problems are being shipped around the country, they’re not staying here
Curtis, would love to hear your thoughts on how much land we need. Most of the books I have read are all based on the east coast where they get 30-60+ inches of rain and dont need irrigation. Joel Salatin is running a head of cattle per acre with no irrigation. Crazy! We live in Utah at 20. If the grid goes down, some irrigation should work but dam controls wont work. Anyways would love to hear what you think. I believe you said are in a semi arid forest.
Absolutely correct! Nothing in Arizona but tumbleweeds and snowbirds. Look elsewhere. Nothing to see here.
Lol they are still coming.
Good stay away !
I want them to stay away also
Would love to see New Hampshire next!!!
Oregon is beautiful farm land and foraging land, mushrooms, artichokes etc….I had a beautiful garden in Marion county , also Oregon Grape root…
Herbs & edible flowers etc…
Plenty of Trees 🌲 🌲 & 💦 water !!! 🤍🕊️
I’m a 3rd gen AZ native. Land values are far too expensive here . Mostly, in the areas with reasonably priced land, there is no water or a 500 to 1000 ft well is needed. In the Metro areas, Water insecurity is becoming a real issue.
Good information. I’m getting the feeling reading a lot of these comments that many are going to leap before they look.
HA! I love these regions because of how dry it is! Haha! I look forward to Idaho and Oregon’s videos. Cheers