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another good point Ash, my wife and I searched for land for a couple years and could never find what was perfect for us, so we took a flat field that was mostly swamp and have been slowly molding it into our ideal property over the last seven years, the only downside to this is what I was thinking and wanted 7 years ago is not what I have in mind today, for example our pond, if I could do it over, I would have moved that further back in the field on our property so I could have utilized the space better for the animals

Rob Roy is also big on taking marginal land and turning it into something better, he bought a old gravel pit that had run dry and was a barren moonscape, it worked perfect for his round earth sheltered cordwood home, I think he has a picture of the property when he bought it in his old corwood book, I will look for it, the difference is quite startling