The following post was shared by our community member David Andrews in our Telegram group on September 26, 2025 and is shared here with his permission.
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Hi everyone! Sharing an update on my kin domain and the future of kin domain settlements in USA. Here is my story. For two years I searched for land. Inspired by Anastasia, I found land in my Motherland USA in the state of WISeCONSciousIN! I love it here so much! Absolutely beautiful country with many rivers, lakes, rocks and rolling terrain. With four beautiful seasons to enjoy and the absolute glory to be found in the winter! Similar to Siberia
To find land, I created 13 specific criteria and the land that I purchased matched all 13. How is that possible you ask? Intention. Vision. Action. All with a low level of importance. The land appeared quite literally in an instant, in the dead of winter on a minus 10 degree day when I had only an hour to walk it and feel the energy. I bought it the next day.
Sharing my story so others know it is possible. Two years of preparing with focused intention was required with massive amounts of action. 5 trips from Florida to MN, WI, MI walking on dozens of properties in all kinds of weather. Hundreds of hours of research, mostly into land ordinances by county to determine if subdividing large parcels of land is even possible along with several other zoning requirements. Most counties do not allow subdividing into 2.5 acre lots, the recommended size for a kin domain.
I found only a few potential counties that would work and only one that fit my criteria, Rusk County WI, one of the poorest counties in the state with some of the most beautiful land in the state that is still reasonably priced.
To finance my land purchase, I started a farm, on paper. Wrote a business plan and submitted all the paperwork to Farm Credit for a loan. They financed 85% of the purchase for just land, no house included. So buying raw land is totally doable if you have income and good credit and are willing to become a small scale farmer (every kin domain is also a small farm) so now you have a way to finance your land purchase!!
In my case, I bought 68 acres and plan to subdivide to create kin domain size parcels for RCR to purchase. It may take me a year or maybe more as the process with the county and land development takes time and money. My intention is to offer kin domain sized parcels for sale at reasonable prices for land that is surveyed, with easy access and a cleared buildable area to get started.
For the land I just purchased, I had to build an access road so instead of a narrow driveway just for myself, I built a community sized road capable of two way traffic so everyone will have easy access to their kin domain and also for guests who visit.
To get started living permanently on the land, which is an essential part of a successful community, I custom built a tiny house on wheels out of a used cargo trailer. This is a project anyone with basic building skills and a willingness to learn can do. YouTube has all the how to videos available for free.
Thankfully, my land came with electric power on site and a well so it was much easier to park my tiny home here from day one and get started. It took me three months to build a road and now I am preparing for winter and creating site mapping for land development.
The farm is getting started with a tree nursery. We held our first farm workshop last Sunday with 5 participants. We built air prune beds to plant tree seeds for living fences and syntropic agroforestry farming. We will be growing thousands of trees from seed so those who buy land here will have access to trees available to plant, including Siberian Cedar Trees (known in USA as Siberian Pine, Pinus sibirica).
If you would like to follow the progress of our future kin domain settlement in NW WISeCONSciousIN, you can find my homesteading/kin domain videos here:
www.tiktok.com/@davidandrews303
Bright thoughts to everyone!
Note: If you would like to contact David on Telegram, you can do so here: https://t.me/davidandrews303
December 11, 2025 Update from Gabriel:
I found David’s 13 criteria in our Telegram group and am sharing them here.
Here is my list of 13 land purchase criteria.
1. County and/or Township zoning that allows for parcel split minimum of 2.5 acres zoned as Agricultural with ability to develop campground/lodging/retreat center. Yes, Rusk County allows for 1 acre minimum parcel splits and has Ag zoned with flexible allowances.
2. 20-100 acres (optimally 40 or more) – Yes, 68 acres.
3. Less than $300,000. Yes.
4. <30 minutes from a town with resources (3,000+ population). Yes – Ladysmith, 17 min. with 3,200 population. Farmers Market, Coffee shop, Laundry, Hardware store, Auto parts shop, Lumber, Walmart.
5. <2 hours from Twin Cities MN (where my grandkids live) – Yes.
6. Predominately 70% upland with 30% or less of wetlands – Yes.
7. Water – sufficient rain capture system, existing well or ability to drill a well, plus a spring, pond, creek, or river – Yes, existing well, 3 ponds, 2,000 feet of lakeshore on a 45 acre spring fed lake.
8. Trees – mature hardwoods with a variety of species and ages, some lowland spruce or cedars. – Yes
9. Soil – moderately useful soil, light to medium or dark green color on the Landid.com soil map – Yes -medium green map on 15 acres, light green on 20, tan or brown on the rest.
10. View – East and West, primarily a place to see the eastern sky near the horizon at sunrise for gazing and a view is sunsets. – Yes, sunrise easily seen across pasture, sunset seen over lake
11. Slope – some portion with a slope either north facing in the woods or south facing in the open or both – Yes, 10′ to 30′ slope in multiple directions
12. Adjacent to public lands or near nature areas – Yes, 1.5 miles from Flambeau River and 1 mile from Chippewa River, Flambeau Forest and Blue Hills.
13. Within 1 hour drive of major scenic outdoor activities such as mountain biking, kayaking, SUPing, canoeing, hiking, cave exploring, rock climbing, and/or other outdoor activities. – Yes, Four Rivers For Everyone in Rusk County, MTB trails, cross country ski trails, downhill skiing, canoeing/kayaking/SUP on multiple rivers and lakes nearby. Hiking in the Blue Hills.