AdAgrA 2018: Something Better

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AdAgrA: Adventist Agriculture Association

Intensive: Living Naturally

Jerry Wernick

1. Living Naturally: Overview

2. Living Naturally: A Country Home

3. Living Naturally: How to Find Good Land

4. Living Naturally: Building Your Own Home

5. Living Naturally: Independent Utilities

6. Living Naturally: Alpine Gardening

It's a temptation today, just get on the internet, because you can, you know, Zillow is it or something, I mean you can find land all over the place.

I've talked to real estate agents that I know well in our area, and he's done that.

He said typically what is on the internet is way overpriced, hoping to attract somebody from California or Texas or somewhere to come and buy it at that price.

But if you go there locally and inquire, it's not that price.

The only way it's good is to see, well, there are some properties out there.

The best way to find land is go there in person.

What we did years ago, we started in California.

But when we had just a little, we had another couple that we had known.

And they didn't have any money because he was in school.

But we both wanted to live in the country.

And we went for about a month or 5 weeks.

And we Both wanted to live in the West if we could.

So we started in Southern California and we went all the way to Canada and out through Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming and made a circle back.

And we looked for every little forgotten valley that there was.

We stayed away from the major cities and all of that, but within reach of them or a tourist center like Glacier Park turned out to be for us.

On that 1 trip in about a month, we found 5 or 6 valleys like ours.

They were either on the wrong side of the mountain, they were too far from town, the soil was too Rocky in the case here.

Our valley had been homesteaded, 1 of the last places in the United States to be homesteaded.

They were still homesteading into the 30s there.

And the homes, at 1 time, in the 30s, there were 400 people living in this valley, pioneers.

There were 2 public schools, little log schools.

But they found out, they were all gonna be, 1 of them told us there were a few of the original homesteaders still left when we first moved there in the 70s.

And they told us, they all thought they were gonna be wealthy ranchers.

But they found out that this valley is surrounded by high mountains all the way around.

There's just kind of 1 canyon that goes out.

And because of that, it has a bathtub effect, which means that the only air coming in basically comes at night.

The air starts to cool, and the air on the mountaintops gets cold, so it's heavy.

And it goes to the bottom, just like in a bathtub, and sits there.

So the nights are cold and they can even frost in the summer.

And voila, they finally can grow hardly anything there and so eventually they all left, almost all of them.

Our property, if you can believe this, it just breaks my heart.

We only have about a fourth of a homestead because you could homestead 160 acres.

So ours is part of the original McIntosh homestead.

In the 40s, an older lady who we came to know quite well, she's passed away now, she bought that property for back taxes for 300 and some dollars.

The poor old homesteader, they'd have 5 children, and 1 of those children came back 1 day.

And she showed up at our door, knocked on the door, and she said, I forget her first name, but I'm so-and-so McIntosh.

I just wanted to see what had happened to the place and We sat her down and we grilled her for 3 or 4 hours on what life was like there What happened and all the rest of it?

But that's what happened the homesteaders left it was a tough Valley it's too cold it was too far from town Thin soil and like 1 of the guys said that lived there many years, you can't eat the scenery.

It's a beautiful valley, beautiful, But to live there was a little more of a problem.

There's a wonderful resource book called Strategic Relocation by Joel Skousen, and he did what he has done throughout the US, which you did on your loop.

Maybe we'll have you record that so everybody can hear that, but you need to do that.

But I'll tell you another thing that's important about getting country land.

The best land with the water and the springs and this and That often is not on the market.

Because if anybody wants to sell it, they just tell Fred or Joe, whatever the neighbor is like, hey, oh yeah, I want that.

Our property that we got was not on the market.

We have some other Avenis friends who just bought property in our valley, much below market value.

We know another guy who bought a property, this is 10 or 15 years, 20 years ago.

The property had been on the market, but nobody, it was so remote, nobody, and the guy got discouraged and he lived in Oregon and he just took it off the market and that's the way it was.

When this guy, he went around and found the property he wanted rather than looking for what was for sale, found out the history of it.

He drove all the way to Oregon from Montana, knocked on this guy's door.

I wanted to, that property's beautiful for what I want.

If you don't really need it, why not sell it to me?

You've got to, like Ellen White said, you've got to help, work hard to help open up the way.

The best thing is go to a place, start asking questions.

Some people wouldn't do this, but I go up to a ranch house and knock on the door.

You've got a beautiful piece of property here.

Oh, I'd grow this, and I got an apple tree, and Fred over here.

Series

Intensive: Living Naturally

3. Living Naturally: How to Find Good Land

Transcript

Parent Series

Parent Conference

Sponsor

Recorded

Living in Denial

59m

Breakout Session A

How Does Health Become Evangelistic

42m

Breakout Session #1

The Science of the Mind of Christ

1h 19m

Basic Gardening

Your First Soil Test

1h 13m

Part 5 - Crossing the Jordan

1h 9m

The Mount of Blessings

Light of the World

40m

So You Want to Start a Garden?

1h 13m

The Big Questions (Evening Meetings)

1. There Probably Is No God

1h 6m

Restoration 2024: The Message of Healing

Our Final Conflict Part 2

49m

Sacrifice

The Reproach of Those Closest

39m

Empowered Systems in Cities

1h 1m

Market Gardening

Market Gardening ABC’s: Looking at the Basic Building Blocks of the Market Garden

53m

Sound Doctrine