Option 3 - Cut costs
Similar to Option 2, but also cut costs to the bone.
#wwoof ing - "wwoofers" volunteer on organic farms in return for room and board. https://wwoof.net - many countries have independent organizations.

workaway.info has a somewhat similar program. Both have a modest fee to join, worth it.

With only your actual travel and incidental expenses, you can support yourself with a fiverr type job or other small income activity.

Å behandle ungdom som WWOOFer som kriminelle er hårreisende og setter Politiets prioriteringer i et svært dårlig lys. Har de ikke bedre ting å bruke ressursene sine på?

Jeg WWOOFet selv i 3 måneder på en gård i Hardanger i 2011, hvor det var amerikanere, franskmenn og folk fra england innom, og det vi gjorde var **ikke** arbeid i tradisjonell forstand, det var både teoretisk og praktisk opplæring, samt masse sosialt fellesskap og kulturell utveksling.

Håper denne nye praksisen avlives raskest mulig nå som #NRK har satt søkelys på det!

https://www.nrk.no/innlandet/xl/juliana-mattson-fra-usa-skulle-laere-okologisk-jordbruk-i-noreg-_-ti-dagar-seinare-vart-ho-utvist-1.17002276 #WWOOF

It's been such an active season, which feels really wonderful.

We've finished cleaning up the West side of the house, allocating last year's compost. We also built framing for, sewed, and hung custom shade sails that make the house cooler -- summer is officially here in the high desert -- as well as which make that previously underutilized space another communal/hosting/patio type area just by virtue of being there and creating spacial separation.

My gardens are doing okay, something keeps eating my potato plants' leaves. I thought the birds that nest in the honey mesquite tree at first, but it keeps happening despite the chicken wire I've hung over the infiltration basin. My hunch is some insect, though I've yet to see the culprit in action. My white, black, and violet sages I replanted into the infiltration basin are doing great, though, as are the green onions and garlic I planted. Our nopales are slowly coming back, also, now that we've dug them infiltration basins and moved them to the shade of one of our mesquite trees.

We now have a water storage tank, a critical step in enabling us to get bigger livestock. It creates water resilience if the power goes down and our well pump doesn't work, and enables us to take some pressure off of our aquifers for minor irrigation projects.

A straw bale and adobe bunk house for guests and guest bathrooms are in the works, which will add to our capacity for hosting. A good thing, since we're grateful to be booked with visitors and loved ones from now until January.

We're planting five new trees to attract pollinators, some of our date palms are fruiting (despite being too immature to eat this year), and the infiltration basins on the North side of the property that were on hold are in progress again.

Our broody hen got confused when I moved her to her own coop the first time and abandoned her first clutch (that was my fault) but has successfully been sitting in the broody coop on a fresh clutch for a week now, so we're expecting teeny cluckers soon!

There are other projects that are set to begin soon, as well, but I'll have to update on those later on!

A reminder that if you ever want to support what we're doing here at the ranch, my Kofi directly funds projects like these and contains some sustainable goodies and unique art in return