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Seeking Partner/s for intentional community in norhern New Mexico - Compensation: other in Truchas, New Mexico

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Seeking Partner/s for intentional community in norhern New Mexico - Compensation: other
Price: $15
Seller: David & Jana' Sky
Date/Time:10 Mar, 03:29 a.m. EST
Type: Trade/Wanted, For Sale - Private.

Spent the last couple years banging around the entire state of New Mexico - fifth largest state by land mass - looking for that ?perfect spot? to start a small, intentional community - not trying to create a hippy commune environment rather a small mutually supportive community in terms of proximity as well as shared values and goals. (Nothing but love for my hippy friends out there but talking hot & cold running water, fancy Electric lights even Refrigeration - just to be clear ,not a xxxx harvester bus and an outhouse -although, I?ve seen some built into pretty cool looking little homes) Anyway, never did find the perfect place but finally ended up just outside the art village of Truchas, NM at the end of a very private ¼ mile long wilderness jeep road that I am trying to tame into a rough country lane. We?re at xxxx feet and nearest neighbors are about a ¼ mile away as is paved highway 76 off of which our unassuming driveway runs. Highway 76 is part of the Enchanted Circle a series of roads winding on to the northwest from here deeper into the heart of the Sangre de Cristos mountains. We have dramatic views of Truchas peak, 13,101 feet, and alpine scenery of the Truchas massif twelve air miles due east in the 223,000 acre Pecos wilderness area.
The land is two acres of sub alpine meadow with some large cedar and a live oak forest pretty much in the middle. A system of canals called macacias channel water to the land which is slightly terraced downward from south - village side where the Madre acacia runs continuing down in about three to four foot terraces spaced about an acre apart to the north where the seasonal Truchas river is about a mile away. We have a well capable of supporting another household and while off grid now with solar and a gasoline generator, later in spring will have grid service making it relatively easy to hook up another household. I need to pretty this place up for the banks and another structure would need to be erected after which I want to resume enhancing our off grid power as well building greenhouses and bringing livestock in. There are three acres contiguous to ours on the south and north side of property and one acre available adjacent to our south side that I know is available. I?ll be doing everything I can to bring in at least that acre and the other two on the south side because that would give me control of all the land in the back here - both for security and roo. The three acres on the north side is high desirable as well and bank owned as far as I know. The well is only a ninety feet deep and I have a feeling there could be artesian water somewhere around here judging by the freakishly large size of some of the live oak and the pattern of growth you see.
Summers are idyllic definitely no need for air conditions and winters while harsh do not seem to be so bad as the Midwest or Northeast. Santa Fe, the state capital, is 38 miles to the south and Taos, the unofficial cannabis capital, is 38 miles to the north. I have been an avid outdoorsmen all my life backpacking, cross country ski mountaineering and sea kayaking but suffered a MS like nerve attack that left me only able to amble about just enough to get by. This is one of the most beautiful places on the face of the planet, I think, having always loved the mountains. I only wish that I had come out here before the age of forty seven. This area is a greenbelt traditionally farming land in the past although now primarily occupied by artists and locals whose family presence here might go back for hundreds of years but no real farming is done and many locals work in Los Alamos in ?The Labs? about an hour away to the west across the Rio Grande river valley. Locals build houses here the way they have for hundreds of years which is a very inexpensive way to build and perfect for this environment which is dry. A house only about a mile away was built back in the 70?s by the now elderly owners. A big beautiful pond surrounded by cottonwood trees, willows and aspen is where they dug mud for adobe brick. They used the brick for columns and spanned them with raw logs that I see neighbors havea delivered by the tractor trailer load in the fall to cut up into firewood. The 22 inch thick walls are made of straw bales and the whole thing is finished with mud - stucco - mixture that is cheap labor intensive and can be put on both inside and out and colored to taste with various mineral pigments and the inside will breath absorbing moisture when humid and releasing moisture wnen dry. Also, charity oriented re-sale stores are numerous - the New Mexico way of architecture! I bought the two windows for the mudroom for only $15 bucks a piece and they are four feet high by twenty inches wide perfect for that space.
Need someone who can turn a wrench and we?d be willing to deed off some land and help get a structure up and we do have the potential in the future of economic infusion when the state health dept approves a commercial license for Sky Medical Marijuana Ranch, our non profit. Call me if interested in details and there are more words in my Blog at Tribe.net than anyone cares to read along with hundreds of pictures of this place and the view from the wrap around deck.
Dave - 561 417 xxxx
PS - even if just interested in NM, glad to help since I now know far and away more about the real estate market than I ever cared to know.

State: New Mexico  City: Truchas  Zip code: 87578 Category: Trade/Wanted
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