[Homestead] More on Gold

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Wed Dec 31 13:38:13 EST 2008



bobf wrote:
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> 
> --- On Wed, 12/31/08, Gene GeRue <genegerue at ruralize.com> wrote:
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>> Dead wrong. That's a city mindset. To a homesteader, one's land is 
>> the most important financial investment of their lifetime. There is
>>  no exit strategy. One lives there until one dies. Heartwood is
>> held as a family trust. It will never be sold in our lifetime.
>> 
>> Our exit strategy is a hose from an exhaust pipe.
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> 
> *********Then your land would be an 'asset' and a habitat, not an 
> "investment".  I am often wrong , but not this time
> 


Bob, I consider my land an investment.  I am investing in the future of
my family.  I have no intention of selling the land-ever.  I am
developing the land in a permaculture mindset so that it might provide
for future generations of my family.  I culture the soil, plant trees,
guard the watershed, etc. so that it will sustain future generations.
An asset once again implies monetary value, a value assigned by a third
party-a bank a realtor a financial guru, someone who would never see or
understand the richness of the garden soil.  It is more than a habitat
because we interact with it and nurture it.  A house would be kind of a
habitat-a shelter, one's land is not, IMO, but land can provide shelter,
the raw materials can be used to build a habitat.    Underground
resources like water are not part of a habitat, and while the
homesteader would consider it an asset, it is very different value-non
monetary- than what someone else would assign it(monetary).  It is an
asset to the homesteader because it is life sustaining, for humans,
animals, and plants.  You can't put a price on that.

Bev




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