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Great site to help you do just that...........
http://www.survivalistboards.com/
Yup.
That is the way to go.
But, fair warning...while Eastern Washington is gorgeous, and sparsly populated, it get relatively little rainfall...and finding a property with a year round creek on it (especially one that is strong enough to run a trubine) is more than likely not going to happen.
We just spent 3 years searching while living in NorCal with Grandma...and there was a few places that were nice, one was the Illinois Valley in Oregon, beautiful !
Creeks and rivers !
And the second is the North of the Ponderay area, above Sandpoint, and towards Elvira Idaho.
Another is the southern Idaho area...the wide portion, but hard to find a 20 or 40 acre peice, the farms there are huge.
The nicest place we found was here.
Land prices excellent, sparsely populated yet not without community and culture, a few hours to everywhere: Vancouver WA, Portland, Seattle.
And we have the lovely rain and cool salty fog...and well water is up high, most are within 30 feet.
That is our aquafir, not runoff.
We also have fantastic hunting and fishing.
And there is plenty of sun here to run a solar array.
We have an 18 panel system on our house in California...that is for sale, and I am positive the same set up would run fine here.
That said, you need to conserve during dark months, just like we had to do there in California.
That system was a grid-tie.
The biggest bummer I had living in Eastern WA was the lack of water.
Springs dry up...creeks dry up, it is dry there.
You would have to have a DEEP well, and that is expensive !
Beats living in Kansas though !!!
Eastern Washington is wonderful, high desert country with awesome sage brush plains, monster ponderosa pines, huge mule deer...and great people.
Great site to help you do just that...........
http://www.survivalistboards.com/
Yup.
That is the way to go.
But, fair warning...while Eastern Washington is gorgeous, and sparsly populated, it get relatively little rainfall...and finding a property with a year round creek on it (especially one that is strong enough to run a trubine) is more than likely not going to happen.
We just spent 3 years searching while living in NorCal with Grandma...and there was a few places that were nice, one was the Illinois Valley in Oregon, beautiful !
Creeks and rivers !
And the second is the North of the Ponderay area, above Sandpoint, and towards Elvira Idaho.
Another is the southern Idaho area...the wide portion, but hard to find a 20 or 40 acre peice, the farms there are huge.
The nicest place we found was here.
Land prices excellent, sparsely populated yet not without community and culture, a few hours to everywhere: Vancouver WA, Portland, Seattle.
And we have the lovely rain and cool salty fog...and well water is up high, most are within 30 feet.
That is our aquafir, not runoff.
We also have fantastic hunting and fishing.
And there is plenty of sun here to run a solar array.
We have an 18 panel system on our house in California...that is for sale, and I am positive the same set up would run fine here.
That said, you need to conserve during dark months, just like we had to do there in California.
That system was a grid-tie.
The biggest bummer I had living in Eastern WA was the lack of water.
Springs dry up...creeks dry up, it is dry there.
You would have to have a DEEP well, and that is expensive !
Beats living in Kansas though !!!
Eastern Washington is wonderful, high desert country with awesome sage brush plains, monster ponderosa pines, huge mule deer...and great people.
