MonDak pre-gathering Rainbow holding camp

The MonDak Rainbow Ranch in Fairview, Montana (about 10 hours north of Denver) will provide very primative camping sites in exchange for lending a helping hand around with needed improvements.

Folks traveling down out of northern Canada, central Canada and Alaska, might consider stopping down in Fairview, it's really a lovely weird little place. We're remote, but relatively close to Colorado. (everywhere is far away from eastern Montana)

We're still working to obtain full rights to the property, but we have been given the ok to build it back up to it's once grandure. The homestead was the first home ever built in Fairview by the founder and promoter of the town, it later became the only fontier hospital which served as the maternity ward until the 1940s, everyone born in this area of northeastern Montana that was born before 1949 was born in this house.

We're on about 40 acres over looking the Lower Yellowstone River Valley facing the badlands to the east.

There's 100 years worth of junk all over the property, any clean up help would be great.

We have an old grave yard on site, and lots of junk and buildings falling apart, a 1921 International pickup truck with a tree growing through the hood, ect. We want to get the property ready for horses, then built small bunks as pasture outposts. We have a root celler that's caving in that needs fixing and I have plans for building other outdoor features. There's lots of landscaping work I need to get done during the warm season, I'm working on a native landscape center around big sage brushes lining my agate rock wall. There's lots of public sage brush lands about for collecting and gathering.

We're working on making the house a museum for Fairview. There's enough stuff lying around, it just needs to be organized and figured out.

The house is in need of a lot of work as well. Electrical and plumming. We want upgrade the house's water system, windows and heating, it's all way old school, and very expensive in the long Montana winters. We have 45 windows all of which need replacing, a sceptic system that could go any day. We are looking into getting a wind turbine and solar pannels since wind and sun are so abundant up here on the northern plains. Those plans are still in the makings. Right now we have a goat as an organic lawn mowing system and a cat as our organic pest control and huskies.

We're working to get some things done before applying to be on the National Historic Registry of Historical Places, because once we're recognized as such, improvements we are allowed to do are limited, but what we do before hand they have no say so over. Once the Homestead is back to it's former gradure, I would like to then open the MonDak Rainbow Hostel, but I have to built it first.

We need a lot of help, there's tons of work to be done, the days are long and sunny in June, we're always getting ready for winter out here.

I'm also working on a small garden.

About us two, sometimes more:
We're just folk living the dream in out in the Great American Void. I'm a journalist and my man's building a wireless network, the fastest internet on the range.

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sweet set up..

i imagine the oil rigs,, an the beef cows,in yer pics, well,, may limit those that choose to wander thru..

wouldnt limit us.. nice to know we have a place to stop in when we are back out west..

love n light

 

i wanted to see the 1921 truck.

 

The oil production is a touchy issue out here, lots of injustice, lots to write about as a journalist. This is the largest on-shore oil producing play in the U.S. of the past 30 years. We're producing upwards of 1% of the U.S. consumption of sweet crude oil, but also are leading in alternative energies with lots of budding ethanol plants, lots of wind and solar as well. Montana will pay citizens to use renewable energies.
For anyone who is interested to see what Really happens to a place in an oil boom would find this place very interesting, it's quite the dynamic element. This is a struggling community of simple people. If you think you're getting ripped off at the gas tank, visit a rancher who is has oil rigs pumping oil from his land but doesn't have any mineral rights, no royalties, that's who is really taking it in the shorts. You wouldn't believe what happens to these people, well maybe you could image what big oil does to a community that's used to going on the gentleman's handshake instead of signed papers....

It's a boom and bust Western town, up and down, inside and out, it's not a hippy haven, don't be mistaken, however, I'm creating my own hippy haven, because it's Montana and there's damn enough space. I don't expect a crowd, we're very remote, The MonDak is only for those with true grit...tender-foots beware, it's a harsh environment, socially, economically with an extreme climate, one of the most extreme found in the lower 48 seeing as we're just west of the center of the North American continent. Life on the range still isn't easy.

 

thats kewl as shit..

luvin you sister..

 

Ask and yea shall recieve... That is great to see, maybe it could one day be salvaged. I hope your dreams of your ranch happen for you all. it is always nice to be able to go places and not worry about not having a place to stay. I wished i had known about you guys in the past when we were wondering, i might have spent a little more time in montana. blessings to you and yours.

 

nice photos.