No not growing any of my own genetics this year ,other than the few seedlings that made it through the snow, hail, and frost. This is a cash crop to help me get working on my farm. I`m setting on my easement to my property with permission of the owner. It is right next to a county unmaintained 4x4 road. My easement goes 3/4 of a mile to my property and is also a dirt road. It runs into a spring feed creek just inside my property and has washed out the road. My property is bordered by BLM and US Forest Service on two sides of the 10 acres. It is also very wooded and the top half is steep. I need to come up with 6000+ grand to survey the property , besides putting in a culvert over the creek and have a large pad put in. I also need a septic, well, and because there is no nearby power lines , solar power with a good generator for back up. Then I can fence the pad in to keep bear and deer out and start to build. My problem has been the cost of living on the easement , fuel ,repairs , break downs, etc. I didn`t have much to start with after my home was foreclosed on in the valley. The land is paid for and property taxes are kelp up. I refuse to ever get a loan again in my life time after being screwed by Wells Fargo Bank in the housing mess ! Banks are evil corporations!!! My plan is to make an organic small farm / ranch and live on what I make as well as my Social Security. I need a proper set up to do breeding projects with the 22,000 + strains of cannabis I`ve collected in the last 54 years. Then I`ll start back up MC`s Seeds or may use my older name of Sunshine Seeds Citra 1969-71. I also have permission to use one of my partners old seed company names ` Sacred Seeds`. But I don`t plan on doing that. I lack capitol and now have more health problems but I still think it`s doable. One reason is because once I get the servey done I have an interested party who is a logger / heavy equipment operator who will put the pad in and cut some of the 3000 + cords of fire wood and $8000 worth of timber and give me half the income. I should end up with just less than $350,000.00 to build with. I just need to be set up to live comfortably through the Winter and until the logging and fire wood is removed and everything is cleared. I`ll also need to go through an other Winter and what ever it takes until the infrastructure is in. If I don`t get ripped, have major break downs or other problems again I should be moved in in the next two years? There is also the possibility I may buy property with infrastructure in place and below the snow line, closer to resupply and sell my property. It`s what my son thinks I should do. Even if my property was all done with a house ,etc. it gets snowed in for up to two weeks at a time a couple times every Winter.
The greenhouses will save me 40% of my investment and labor destroyed from early rain each year and if I can get them set up for year round growing I could triple my production. That`s why I`m working so hard to get them completed. It`s a shame It will all need to be moved though.