Jack D. Wilder

Ra Kenworth wrote:I had to look up finca

I would love to know more!

Wow! So you're here to answer questions 🤣

Welcome home!

Hello from to a fellow Zone 4er!


My finca is currently idle while I'm focusing on finishing up some Airbnb's on my Montana homestead but the most outstanding part is that it has a little creek with a waterfall and swimming hole surrounded my jungle with wild orchids.

Sue Outback wrote:Hi
What is a kink camp?😂
Everything else you do sounds cool though…
Not sure if I’ve fully signed up for this site. Or if there’s a place to post pictures.

The camp was like most Burning Man camps: a huge tent with a bar, chill spots, music, and lights but it also had a hard point for doing shibari suspensions, multiple St Andrew crosses, a spanking bench, school desks, and there were kennels under the bar top.

Riona Abhainn wrote:Your homestead sounds amazing.  I'm TheMemsahib on FetLife if you want to friend me.

Heading there now. It's always nice to run across people with similar interests.

I founded my off-grid self-sufficient Montana Homestead in 2005 on neglected timberland and mining claims at 5800'. I was the first to live in this valley since the miners in the 1880's.

I've been paid to fight wildfires, write articles, and cook at four star restaurants. Now I sell firewood and produce I've grown to pay my taxes and cell phone which are my only expenses.

I built my home myself with logs and rocks from my property, it's four stories, in-the-round piece-en-piece timber frame. The south side has an attached 37 X 13' greenhouse and the third floor is a 13' X 20' sunroom in which I grow veggies and flowers year round.

I have active and passive solar heating with two Fisher woodstoves supplying the rest. I have PV solar, two wind turbines, and micro hydro.

I have a handful of chickens now but I have also had dairy and meat goats, ducks, and geese in the past. I've made my own butter and cheese.

My garden is 80' X 300' and I grow strawberries, peas, rhubarb, raspberries, gooseberries, Egyptian onions, green onions, garlic, chives, horseradish, sunchokes, lovage, day lilies, asparagus, mint, hops, potatoes, kale, and others.

My next project is a little finca in the mountains of Puerto Rico where I grow oranges, bananas, coffee, papaya, passion fruit, breadfruit, orchids and others.

I've been a libertarian/An-cap activist for more than two decades and was an early member of The Free State Project before opting out after the vote went to NH.

I've been a New England Transcendentalist (like Thoreau) for more than thirty years but play with Eris and Discordianism.

I've been active in the Kink community for over a decade. I've gone to Dark Odyssey and Kinkfest several times. Ask for my Fet username if you want to know more

I've followed the Burning Man community since '92 and have ran a kink camp at the big Burn and regionals.

I started shooting competitively at 12 and have harvested most North American large game, upland and waterfowl. I've caught all the a Rocky Mountain salmonoid/trout except the Arctic Grayling.

I have a 37' X 13'attached greenhouse on my house. After years of waiting for funds for something better I used super cheap second hand sliding door double pane tempered glass to close it in. I'm still nervous when spring storms drop large hail and I shovel it if the snow is deeper than six inches but at far so good.

I'm at 5800' in the Northern Rockies (Zone 4) and I forage huckleberries, alpine whortleberries (grouse berries) wild raspberries, wild currants, thimble berries, wild strawberries, shaggy mane mushrooms, bolete mushrooms, sheep sorrel, nettles, ramps, mullen, prince's pine, red and white clover, Oregon grape root, bearberry and others I'm sure I'm forgetting.

Eino Kenttä wrote:No experience with chinese artichokes, but if it turns out they don't make it, they have an European cousin called marsh woundwort (Stachys palustris) that can be used the same way (tasty!) and is quite hardy. Grows very well indeed in north Swedish long-winter zone 5. Would guess it'd do ok in zone 4. Good luck!

Thanks. That sounds like a good backup

I grow almost exclusively perennials and I'm looking to add this fun plant but what I've seen days they're hardy to zone 5.

Sunchokes, both red and white, do well here as does every mint I've tried. Do you think chinese artichokes would make it?  What's a good source for getting rhizomes?

I place Jung and his MBTI types as more accurate than astrology but not by much- still lots of people believe in horoscopes.  I type as an INTJ and have dated several INFJs, they are definitely some of the most compatible for me.