For me it is more community/environmental in mind set than 'family business' at the moment. If I do manage to get my hands on suitable property then it has a decent chance of being passed on to the wildlife conservatory foundation in the province with the plan to work with them and other landowners to establish a sustained selective harvest and maintenance of "Old Growth" hardwood in the region that isn't currently available to craftsmen to work with.

If I start using land I purchase in this manner, encourage neighbours to do the same, and get more people in other communities to embrace the plan, then in the long term everyone wins. In the mean time we get the material from thinning cuts, large scale organized planning will help the forests be more disease resistant, and dedicated 'green spaces' provide wildlife habitat. In the long term the region will have access to larger and better grades of wood to work with.

I'm 30. One of my side projects in life currently is looking around for a suitable wood lot to begin a hardwood timber plantation to produce heavy timbers that currently are extremely rare and very hard to get for woodworkers. If I plant 2000-4000 trees of mixed hardwood in the next 5 years, then most of them will be ready for harvest and use at their intended size sometime around when I would be turning 200, if not 300... In my life time the only usable wood I'll see from the project will be trimmings and thinning cuts that most likely would only be suitable for firewood. It will cost me thousands of dollars, and many weekends of my lifetime to buy, prep, and manage the property, and there is no way I'm seeing a beautiful 16 inch wide oak plank out of it, but if I don't make an effort to ensure a plot of land is managed for production of beautiful North American hardwood in my region, then who exactly is going to? The Irving Family (Largest lumber producer in the region) sure doesn't seem interested in producing hardwood, as they are too busy planting fast growing softwoods that will be market usable for 2x4 stud frame in the next 30-50 years, if that.

The world doesn't end when we die. Many of us on this planet feel that it would be a lot better of a place in general if more of us remembered this fact.

Next you need some territory.

That is unless said treaties ate abolished first...

Or if you decide to operate outside the treaties and only work with people that never signed the treaty.

Wording of that treaty does have some wiggle room for the creation of a 'nation' that exists there. It does make some things slightly awkward if you try to simply apply the traditional approach to a nationstate and how it normally functioned on earth, specifically how the concept of sovereignty is applied, but nothing stops a 'nation' from actually existing in space.

The core points that apply are that Canada can't say "The moon is ours, hands off and stay away", but I can't find any aspect of the treaty that stops a group of people from saying "We're living here, this bit is ours. You're welcome to tag along, but please stay civil and try to help out."

Also, a nation which does not exist yet cannot sign a treaty barring the creation of itself until after the nation has been created...