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Our modest island homestead


Hello everyone! Wanted to share our little island homestead. Bought this place 10 years ago , it had been abandoned for 43 years before me. Been working to bring it back to life. Building mostly from natural and secondhand materials. Most wood milled or harvested from the island itself. We are off grid. The island itself is 1,5hectares(3,7acres) and we have another 11 hectares(27 acres) on mainland. Mainland we just have road to shore, parking and forest. planted some 15 fruit trees and 40 berrybushes. The whole yard is either cropfield or foodforest. The building close tho shore is sauna with laundru/dressing room. There is also firewood shed, toolshed and composting toilet. We heat with only wood and it gets down to -35celcius(-31F) Trying to be selfreliant and sustainable. No debt and freedom is also important to us. Dreaming of cattle but cant produce enough feed because we have no pasture or hayfields. Hope you enjoy! If interested, there is some more footage on YtT link in bio. Feel free to ask anything 🙂

by MinuteCardiologist76

15 Comments

  1. One-Bridge-8177

    Pretty nice!! One question, do you have to.worry about floods or major storms like hurricanes?

  2. Windy-Chincoteague

    You’re living my childhood dream!

  3. Front_Somewhere2285

    Whats in the bottles center-bottom of your cellar pic?

  4. xmashatstand

    Well this is downright incredible!!  A lil homestead island is definitely high on my list of permaculture dream-set ups!  Good for you for revitalizing the property (and good thinking getting fruit trees growing asap)

  5. Jessica_rabbit1987

    Enjoy it for me, literally living my dream

  6. Unique_Ladder_4245

    Living the dream congrats!!!! Hopefully you don’t have crazy property taxes etc

  7. BocaHydro

    no matter how poor you are, remember how rich you are with this land

  8. Unmasked_Deception

    Looks like the Wilderness Stardew Valley come to life

  9. 42ElectricSundaes

    Just gonna pretend this is mine for a little while

  11. chunky_nomad

    is your intent to produce jealousy? JK. What a wonderful place!

  12. Gardener4525

    Awesome and wonderful! đź‘Ťđź‘Ź

  13. chanman987

    This is awesome. I watch a YT channel called Off Grid Island that is also in Finland. I make jokes to my wife all the time about doing the same.

  14. jacobean___

    Holy cow, that’s incredible. Definitely not my idea of “modest”; that’s just about as good as it gets. Thanks for sharing!

  15. papercutsperfume

    This is beautiful, OP! Congratulations on your hard work paying off.

    Love love love your wood ceiling with the natural edges. And the root cellar. And the tidy rows of your garden. It’s just a beautiful place.

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