I really don't think this can be said enough. ... Just start. Whatever your context or circumstances , get your hands dirty and start. Overthinking and analysing every little detail will eventually become the excuse to not get on with that dream to live the life you actually want. Procrastination becomes an anchor that tightens around every 'problem' you calculated or presumed wasn't possible. My dream has been to live off the land, live in a home I designed and built myself. I didn't have a penny saved.... Still live paycheck to paycheck like most of us. The only difference is, I just started. I'm a YouTube 'connoisseur' of sorts😂🤣🤣🤣. If I'm interested in a topic, I will binge watch as much as humanely possible until the idea cements then .... I will scale whatever it is into a small enough project and replicate what I've watched. If it works, great.... That's my excuse to go big or go home. I'll tweak and prod till it makes sense and then just do it. There's so much information on-line now. We don't have any excuses not to try things. What's that project you want to do but keep finding an excuse to not start.? Mine..I began with bare land and I'm starting to see the fruit of what "Just start" can become...

My ultimate system is definitely aquaponics and all its various offshoots. Growing fish and vegetables all in one system? That's just cheating at this point surely 😂🤣😂😂😂. I can blame my foray into aquaponics to landing me in this world of sustainability and permaculture. The moment I saw it, it just made sense. A system where biological process defines every element of the growing processes? Whaaaaat?!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯. You allow the biology to naturally grow, you add the fish, the fish waste feeds the microbes, the microbes convert the fish waste into food for the plants.... The plants filter the water and reoxygenate the water, that same water is used to grow the plants and you pump the water back into the fish tank.... Understanding that cycle ,led me squarely into permaculture. It's the same process. Understanding the biology, the soil, what we,animals and plants need .... Then working towards allowing nature to do its thing... The fish water has had massive part to play in the successes we have had to regeneration of our land. And it doesn't have to cost an absolute fortune to build your own... Have you heard about aquaponics?

I had no inkling what I was doing starting out. Seeing the fruit of your Labour flourishing.,,.. nothing like it. What are you growing?

Hi there. I'm just an average Joe, trying to make it work in a world that doesn't make sense to me anymore. I have been on a journey to find the key to escaping the rat race we all have been taught is 'normal'.... It's borderline crazy to me I have to leave my loved ones everyday (sometimes weeks at a time) so that I can house and feed them. Is that just me??? Maybe I'm the crazy one...🤣😂😂😂. The world where I can't feed my family with healthy nutrition without chopping off an appendage first to earn the privilege to do so by the way...A world where poison is 'the right way' to grow that nutrition even when we all can see it's poisoning us to do so.... If I want to build sustainably, it's going to come at a premium because someone else says so.... And on and on it goes.. I've always loved building things, but life in modernity says you need another appendage lopped off to afford that 'luxury'.. It feels like I live in an alternate reality if we are being honest.... What happened to community? What happened to quality family unions? What happened to shared interests and common sense? I'm still trying to find the answers to those questions. Fortunately.... For me at least, I found like minded people online. On YouTube to be exact. I'm just an ordinary guy living from hand to mouth though, I can't afford a lot of these things outright so........ I decided to watch how these legends were creating solutions and copy them, and do it myself. I'm not a purist, just practical. YouTube is building me the Life I have long imagined for the longest time. Come and join me to see how I'm going about it and maybe, just maybe, you can take some shortcuts I had to learn the hard way NOT to do. I'll be building stuff with rammed earth, compressed earth bricks, ferrocement and many more. We can explore how I'm building greenhouses with a combination of those methods. Black soldier fly houses, Catfish hatchery tanks, biogas domes, workshops and many more using these and other tried and tested techniques on a shoe string budget.

The moment it all became REAL. Our very first compressed earth block machine locally done . The day my road to retirement truly began.... When was your "moment"?