Michigan Ain’t So Bad For Homesteading!
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Thank you, Curtis!! I’m a Michigander and appreciate your perspective!!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Love love Michigan, my fav state of many I have visited ☺️
I would check out Baker’s Green acres before you start sewing seeds in Michigan.
Freezing cold.
Lol
100% disabled veterans don’t pay property taxes in Michigan
Good luck in the Keewenaw Peninsula! You better love snowmobiling and ice fishing!
And cold. And snow. Lots of snow. Michigan requires a special kind of person
Property taxes are high, and prices are high also. When you get further north, it would be good. But it’s not easy living that far in the mitt.
I would take arkansas over here.
The UP is the best in the Midwest. Please don’t move there.
Yah hey dare, leave us alone
Damn Curtis, you zoomed into my Hometown of Gladwin. My 20 has trees, a pond and not in the red circles;-)
Missouri
Great assessment of Michigan for possible homesteading Curtis! As a former Michigander, I have several concerns with the state in addition to the politics. There has been a lot of fracking for oil in the upper part of the state leading to contaminated wells. If you are near the big lakes you also need to be prepared for lake effect snow in winter. There are several unincorporated areas with less rules for building but definitely need greenhouse infrastructure due to the short season. Two last concerns are no fault insurance is highest in the country and it is in the top 10 states for drug issues. If you don’t have a video yet on Virginia, I would be interested in your opinions on that state or North Carolina. Thanks..
I’m around the Windsor area right near Michigan
Curtis, The northern lower peninsula is very sandy and will be a challenge to grow homestead crops, sure it can be done but only if you know what you are doing. Upper Michigan low population areas are often swampy and filled with biting black flies except at the windy coasts. And it’s all really cold all winter with lots of snow to shovel. The Keweenaw Peninsula (the horn out into Lake Superior) during the 1800s copper mining era was a major population center of several hundred thousand people and the local foods were potatoes, carrots, cabbage, and rutabagas because that’s what they could grow reliably in the short summers, everything else was imported from other states south. So what do you want to grow and eat? Miners ate a lot of baked pies of those vegetables a mile underground. If everyone is out there hunting and fishing, it will look like an orange pumpkin patch. Oh, and Traverse City is pronounced tra-Verse like you are traversing the wilds.
Please do a video on Wisconsin and Minnesota. Thanks in advance!
If you leave Michigan for the winter it’s a great place late spring, summer, and into early fall
Making it in the UP is possible, but you have to do your research and be prepared. To get a feel of what it will be like to live here you need to visit in January through March. Outside of the Rockies and maybe Maine the snow here is unbelievable. The snow might start in October and not leave totally until late May. Especially in the Keweenaw and Marquette/Alger snow belts. Frosts can hit as late as June. Having said that it is very possible to grow a large amount of food. Tomatoes, Potatoes and even Tobacco can be grown up here. And the bug advice is spot on. I think this has been the worst year for mosquitoes that I can remember!
I’m homesteading in Michigan. Raising chickens and fruit trees on ten acres. It’s beautiful.
Do Oregon please.
Great video. One more piece of advice from a Michigander to others looking to be Michiganders. Make sure the property you’re looking at isnt enrolled in the CFA/ Qualified forest program. Theres lots of properties that look like amazing deals but thats because you are paying for only a portion of the acreage advertised for a reduction in taxes. The rest is open to anyone and unbuildable. In some cases you can remove the entire property from the CFA but you’ll be paying a certain amount of back taxes and will have an increase in ongoing property taxes.