Buying & Building Your Place in the Country

Buying & Building Your Place in the Country
What to Look for When Buying Your Place in the Country
Andrew Faust will distill his 30 plus years of experience in finding land for a diverse range of projects for friends, family and clients.
He is a professional consultant for individuals ,families, private enterprises and pursuits in building Natural and Ecological homes, communities, schools and farms.

Faust will share from his more than three decades of building experience, including living fully off the grid for 10 years building is own straw bale home in the mountains of West Virginia.
Faust has extensive project and site development expertise, primarily in this region.
He will cover how to set up fully off -grid , energy independent homes and communities with minimal reliance on fossil fuels.
He will also go into examples of natural homes he and his team have constructed in the area...https://www.permaculturenewyork.com/consultation-design-portfolio

In this session Andrew will give you invaluable pointers for raw real estate and for land with buildings and a house.
He will cover a wide scope of projects and ideas from building homes to locating retreat centers and other regional nature based businesses in the Hudson Valley region, including; Ulster & Sullivan county, Dutchess county, Columbia, and Greene county and generally discussing useful holistic ecological and economic criteria, for the northeastern region, and the world.

Some main points to be covered:
Assessing water quality, Air quality
Superfund sites and Brownfields.
The best places to live and farm
Setting up very remote self sufficient communities and homesteading economics.
Outlining your goals and desires for country living.

Best places to live for city mouse/country mouse lifestyles.
Creating fully off grid, energy independent homes and communities.
Ecological water and waste systems.
Building designs that optimize natural capital on site.
Permaculture educational centers and schools as the hub of community development projects.

The work we do as consultants to help you find beautiful, town & country living...http://www.permaculturenewyork.com/property-analysis