Our Kin Domain is nestled deep in a valley beside the Santa Clara River in southwestern Utah, about 25 miles north of Saint George. A deep canyon runs north from our home all the way to the Baker Reservoir. Unlike the surrounding high desert environment in which our Kin Domain is located, our property is covered in massive cottonwood trees and crack willows that make you think you are living in the southeastern United States. Deer, herons, and turkey roam our property every day. We are slowly converting our property into a true food forest garden based on Permaculture principles and the beautiful descriptions Anastasia has given. While our Domain is not a hectare, we are making the most effective use of our space to create a blessed spiritual sanctuary for each other, our family, and the wildlife that shares it with us.

We are located 30 minutes southwest of Pueblo, Colorado. Our 80 acres of land is typical Colorado ranch land. We have a river running through our land in a canyon 200' below the main part of the land but it cannot be used for irrigation. We've lived here off grid since Summer of 2013 and have solved many transitional and ecological problems we've encountered as we built up our home and domain from raw land. When we came here the land was mostly dirt with only 5 known edible wild plants the entire first season. After six years of loving our domain, we've watched that number of wild edibles grow to over 70 each year, and the wide expanses of exposed dirt have filled in with meadow grasses and plants.
Our native trees are are juniper and a few ponderosa, spruce, and honey locust. Native shrubs are mostly squaw berry, scrub oak, and mountain mahogany. Being on the edge of a canyon, we have some beautiful rock fields. As you move further from the canyon edge, the soil gets deeper and deeper. It's primarily silt with pockets of pure clay. Along our river we even have some potter's clay.
This land is not yet ready for farm animals. Our native wild animals are wonderful and many, but are not friendly to domesticated animals, either farm or pets. We don't allow dogs in our community at this time and have found that domestic cats are no match for the range of local wild animals. We do not yet have a garden per se. We've chosen to explore the the native wild edibles first, but we have planted a few vegetable seeds here and there to see how well they grow here. We currently do not have a water supply sourced from our land sufficient for irrigating a full garden of non-native garden plants. We bring water in with large tanks from a local spring. We'd love to see a spring show up on our community land on the upper level. We do have a spring at the base of the canyon near the river, although I think it's technically an alluvial plane cut by the canyon. Although we've tried some methods, we haven't yet found a reliable way to move the spring water to the upper level.
We've planted many trees with many different planting methods but most haven't survived. Now we are more careful of the varieties we plant and in our orchard we give the trees more water. That seems to be working well. In every aspect of building our kins domain lifestyle here, we've found that it is no mall task to learn to live in harmony with nature instead of the ways we've grown up with. It's the most exciting and pleasing work I've ever done

Aloha! We are currently searching for 2.5 acers of land in Hawaii for our Kin's Domain. We are looking on the north shores of Oahu or Kauaii. If others are interested in buying land in Hawaii there are larger parcels that we could go in on for better prices, feel free to reach out. We have our downpayment and are ready to buy. In the meantime we are learning about permaculture and sustainable building.

One acre food forest at the end of a short dirt road. A work in progress. Planting many fruit trees and learning what works and what doesn't with the local weather and sandy soil conditions! Reading about permaculture and trying to put it into practice. We are low-key, down-to-earth, minimalists. Taking it slow.

I live a simple life. I'm happiest when I can be outside and I really enjoy being productive. I love learning and I'm always discovering new subjects to inspire me. I'm a big animal lover and tend to have several varieties. I think my biggest passion in life is helping. People animals, plants, nature... it doesn't matter. I want to help. And, I love building things!

I'm a bit of everything. I read, write, spin fire, dance, garden, love (my wife Grace), make art, build Cairns, explore and more. My main income write now is freelance writing, so if you have a job, feel free to inquire about my services 🙂

Salutations. I am french canadian, Quebecois.I am a almost retired stone mason.I enjoy working with the earth.I like yoga and meditation.I spend my winters in India for the past 10 years.Anastasia as touch my heart, I now live in this beautiful forest.I have access to unlimited wild blueberrys, so I make caisses of jam for sale. It is my first year, for I just aquired this land last year.There will be more products from the land and from the forest, like herbal teas and medicinal herbs. Bread and butter pickles ect. all in mason jars. Feel blessed by the Divine in co- creating this new Earth reality.Namaste.

I have 45 years old and I'am a single mother of two children (Emilian 16, Ana-Maria 12). We live in our land for 7 years now, hoping for a community develop around as. But nothing until know. And this makes me little bit sad because this was my biggest dream: To have my Kin Domain next to many others Kins Domains.
I like cooking, pastry. I like dancing. I like gardening. I always dreamed about a little farm.
There are lands to be buy around as, and I hope for neighbors.

I live in Massachusetts and am looking for land and people to create our Kin's Domain~I dream of a place where we all live close to nature and our children and grandchildren can be loved and nurtured~in creating this~we give others hope to do the same~

Mountainous with quartz crystals and pure water. Mostly woods surrounded by land under conservation and near the White mountain national forest.