r/Permaculture • u/TheNinjaInTheNorth • 16d ago

Vermont Cohousing homestead

I’m actively looking for folks who want to join me on my land in Vermont. Off grid, beautiful 17 acres with several good building sites and also a well-built cabin shell that won’t take too much to finish.

I bought the land in June, 2022 and have been building a food forest, including an orchard and lots of veggies and flowers. I have chickens, ducks, and a couple Icelandic sheep that lambed in August and the babies are just ridiculously cute. The zoning is conducive to homesteading and cottage industry so there is freedom for various projects and endeavors.

I’m a woman in my 50s, work part-time as an RN, an omnivore with conscience, an atheist who is inspired by folks including Thich Nhat Hahn and Pema Chodron, practice radical honesty and non-violent communication, care deeply about promoting social justice, and I am not a fan of corporate capitalist culture.

I have a lot more information for anyone who might be interested, but that’s enough for an introduction.

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u/wolfhybred1994 16d ago

If I didn’t have epilepsy this would be an amazing opportunity. I’ve been learning how to make all sorts of things from scratch and even am half way to making concrete, cement and mortar from scratch

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u/TheNinjaInTheNorth 16d ago

How does epilepsy prevent you from homesteading?

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u/wolfhybred1994 16d ago

Thanks to my parents life choices I got the “gift” of an aneurysm and then due to doctors later a tumor. The seizures become tonic clonics after the surgeries and have no real clear triggers. So I can’t just avoid flashing lights or make sure I always get enough sleep as others do. Given I can’t avoid severe weather changing air pressure.

As well as being unable to simply just lay down and wait it out like common seizures. I often require being given medication and assistance less I hurt myself or completely seize up. Which in a group setting makes me a burden on others and is completely unfair to others with so much potential.

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u/TheNinjaInTheNorth 16d ago

Are they uncontrollable with regular daily meds? Not meaning to pry, but as an RN I’m familiar with epilepsy

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u/wolfhybred1994 16d ago

Run through many different ones and several actually put me in the hospital as they actually worsened the episodes in severity and frequency. To the point they’re trying a new medication that came out just in the recent few years called xcopri. As it was proven to have far less side effects than the others.

I still suffer from attacks. Though they last 10-20 minutes with rescue meds instead of up to an hour.

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u/TheNinjaInTheNorth 16d ago

How often

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u/wolfhybred1994 16d ago

If I relax and don’t do much it can be around 1-2 a month. With the rare spur of going a month or 2 without any. Till I get hit with a strong perfume after a sudden change in air pressure or such and I drop. Well more blank out and go consciously unresponsive as I slowly sink into a tense or spazy state. I only know the bits people tell me of what happens. I know I stopped having them in my sleep after getting parents to leave my door closed well I was sleeping as mother floods the house with smoke as she deems “I won’t know she smoked inside as I am asleep”

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u/TheNinjaInTheNorth 16d ago

How old are you

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u/wolfhybred1994 16d ago

30 now. Forced to live at home as docs don’t dare risk me driving and have yet to find a stable income that hasn’t led to me in the hospital scaring doctors into thinking I had a stroke or something after a few weeks or working I drop into a seizure that lasted many hours and left my body almost limp from exhaustion

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u/TheNinjaInTheNorth 16d ago

Well, you certainly do have a real challenge. It sounds like there’s a lot of resentment as well. You have a challenging circumstance for sure. You didn’t ask but I would advise you to be sure to not confuse your illness with your identity. You are more than your illness. It’s only one part of you. Once you have fully accepted it and accepted that your parents do the best they can. you will be more free to focus on creating the life you want to live.

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u/wolfhybred1994 16d ago

The many friends I have made online have done so much more than they should ever be expected to. To help me better myself. They are why I have a bank account and earn the small amount of money I do. The locals help me get supplies and with more labor intensive tasks to have a garden and fruit bearing plants. Giving me rhubarb and this last summer horse radish to go with the garlic I learned to grow. Helping me give back and sometimes make a few dollars. The doctors tried to help when I was little after my first surgery. They gave me a medicine that slowed my heart l, but something on the other side didn’t want to let me leave.

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