I have been to one in Southeastern Oklahoma a couple of times. I have a friend who lives in the "community" It is pretty much off grid. No external power feed. No external water. If I were guessing I would say around 8 or 9 homes on about 300 acres. Water is from a spring and wells. Some people use solar and at least one home has a modern wind mill powered electric system. From my observations and discussions with my friend I think most folks raise chickens or guineas. You see some goats, both milkers and meat stock. I have seen one lady using a team to plow with. 4 wheelers and Gators/Kabotas seem to be very popular. I think most of the folks work somewhere away from the community but I know of at least three families that don't. They do what they call "Subsistence living" but to me it looks like they work their rears off. Lots of timber in the area and you can get a permit to cut standing dead or marked "diseased" trees from the Forestry department. I think the community is about 50 or so years old or least some folks have been living there that long. I think there is a large extended family that was the genesis of it. Brothers bought 360 acres at a Sheriffs Sale and built three homes out on "The Place" in 1961 or so.
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