Thanks to all who contribute to the site. It's been a great source of wisdom and entertainment. I hope y'all are where you want to be at this time. Anyways, I joined to post this.

Family Background: My wife's great grandparents settled in Elk River and she ended up in Boise. We realized we were happiest outside the city/suburbs and are constantly purging possessions to fit in a 1/1, single wide or cabin. My background is in general contracting, mostly remodel work. I was a conductor, engineer and still have a Class A CDL from working construction. We also do web design, which operates anywhere.

Our Goal: Escape from Boise! and start life in rural Idaho. Our list of requirements is short. I will be your tenant/sharecropper, you will be my neighbor/landlord. Moving anywhere we're strangers is no good; we want someone who needs help with chores/projects/bills and will appreciate the extra company. Any place in Idaho so long as the population density is low. We're eager to try no-till gardening, small animal husbandry and soil building.

If you or someone you know might go for this, let's be neighbors.

Edited to read better.

This summary of Joel Salatin's book Fields of Farmers crystallizes our intentions:

"America’s average farmer is sixty years old. When young people can’t get in, old people can’t get out. Approaching a watershed moment, our culture desperately needs a generational transfer of millions of farm acres facing abandonment, development, or amalgamation into ever-larger holdings. Based on his decades of experience with interns and multigenerational partnerships at Polyface Farm, farmer and author Joel Salatin digs deep into the problems and solutions surrounding this land- and knowledge-transfer crisis. This book empowers aspiring young farmers, midlife farmers, and nonfarming landlords to build regenerative, profitable agricultural enterprises."

I don’t even......um welcome?  

You can always go east...I'm just south of MH and it's not too bad here.

So, uh, you wanna be boog bros?

I got a freezer full of crab and elk...

Anywhere around MH would be nice.

That’s pretty cool. How old are they?

Good on them and good on you.