Building a Homestead on a Pennie!

I am currently working on permit for building our "CORDWOOD HOME"  My sons, father and I are going to design ourselves and luckily I've been involved in our very small mountain community for years and have made a lot of friends to help in trade, because in Colorado you have to have a licensed electrician, plumber and excavator, I will be relying on friends to help us. My plan is to use as much material from our land to build our home, to spend as least as possible. So I would like to welcome you all to our journey and hopefully this will help others venture out to follow there dreams in building your own Homestead like our fathers before us. Here are a couple pictures of my property, a little brown, cant wait until spring. UPDATED May 7th..My daughter and I decided to see if the ground was workable...it was! Digging underground garden for my non-profit  organization Harvest For Humanity, since it doesn't require a permit and all my seedlings I planted, corn, sunflower, tomatoes, peppers, peas, lettuce, herbs and edible flowers are taking over my house! also waiting for my baby silkie chicks, all going towards living off the grid and being sufficient.