Silvanus Estates

Years of putting trees in other people's ground. Frozen mornings, bug-thick afternoons, knees and backs shot by forty. Good money — and every season still ends the same way: renting, with nowhere that's ours.

So we're buying a mountain. Together.

A few dozen of us, pooling what we'd otherwise hand to landlords, to buy off-grid land in the Kootenays and build a place we actually own: log homes, a sauna cut into the hillside, gardens, an orchard, and a few hundred acres of logged-over forest we'll bring back ourselves. We know how — it's the work we're all good at.

The land goes into a community land trust — owned together, for good. No bank can foreclose it. No developer can buy it out from under us. No council telling us what we can build. When we're too worn out to plant, it's where we come home.

You'd hold your own home and a real stake in the commons. The buy-in is small, and most of it you can put in with your hands instead of your wallet — we'd sooner have your skills than your savings.

We're not selling anything. We're gathering the crew first.

The land we're looking at

2,560 acres in the West Kootenays · ~$4.6M (about $1,800/acre)

• 2,560 acres, unincorporated — no municipality
• Completely outside the ALR — homes are allowed
• A creek runs ~4 km · previously logged, merchantable timber remaining
• Borders the Darkwoods conservancy · 5 min to Salmo

📷 See Boulder Pit Road, Salmo on REALTOR.ca — photos & map →

⭐ Claim your founding share ⭐

A share is claimed, not bought — no money changes hands now. This holds your place while we gather the crew.

Want to sponsor a bush worker at 0%? → Help someone good who's short on cash claim their share.

🌲 Silvanus Estates — a Soteria Covenant project. Builders, growers, mechanics, medics, cooks, musicians — all welcome.