The Price of Freedom
Every guide page prices one spoke. This page prices the wheel.
Getting started. Combine your guide choices and add excluded items to prepare a complete budget.
Six spokes, no pretending
The Freedom Wheel
Every spoke leads to its page. Solid = live today · dashed = being built.
○ Farther out — knowledge · communication · health. Not pages yet: propose ideas
A free life rolls on more spokes than these. We only mount one when its page is real. No pretending.
The four guide pages each answer the same question for one category: how much to be independent in energy, water, garden, animals. But a life is not four separate categories. Your animals drink. Your garden is thirsty in July. Your well pump runs on your panels. Ask the questions separately and you answer the same ones three times — and the links between them stay invisible.
This page asks once. You describe the life; the planner wires the categories together the way the land does, and adds up the estimated items. Installation, shelters and the other expenses listed in the guides still need to be budgeted. The land itself is not included: that is the LAND Fund's job.
— The sum of the LAND Fund's layers
How Much to Be Completely Independent?
Answer once — the planner wires water to your garden and animals, energy to your water, and brings your estimates together in a subtotal to complete.
Every constant here is the same one the four guide pages use — nothing invented for this page. Water is derived from your garden and animals (that is why it is bigger than the Water page's small-garden example); energy adds the well pump, UV treatment and irrigation automatically. The land itself is not in the number — that is the LAND Fund's job. A starting estimate, not a quote — the four guide pages refine each category.
How the Four Are Linked
Compare models · How the Four Are Linked
| Link | Rule | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
| People → everything | beds, litres, kWh all scale on p | Every guide page prices per person |
| Garden → water | each bed drinks ~5 L/m² on a July day | Garden thirst line → Water cistern |
| Animals → water | every guardian drinks, 0.5–30 L each | Animals "they drink" → Water |
| Water → energy | well pump + UV ride on the panels | Water pumping rows → Energy loads |
| The land under it all | not in the number | That's the LAND Fund's job |
The MemoryNotes and sources
Notes reviewed September 12, 2026. Links open the reference documents.
- First year: keep records of harvests, spending and actual hours. Use them to decide what can grow within your available time. UMN · planning.
- Linked guides provide maintenance frequencies and equipment sources. Check climate locally; hours remain your own estimates. European Commission · PVGIS.