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Off The Grid in America (Penguin, 2010)
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5 comments

1 cecil s wilson { 11.28.11 at 10:26 pm }

i am a loving kind person who wishes to live off the grid i have worked hard my entire life and have nothing to show i have realy not much money but own my home which i would sell to get the supplyes needed to build a cumunity of fellow off the grid people i have seen a place that is in the woods that only has solar and wind power it was a beauitifull cabin self sustaining with wood heat but it was a hunting cabin and you could see a heard of elk that walked through the lower meadow in the misty morning the call of the wolfs that sound as close as to be beside you ,the smell of the moss in the morning the meadow of elk the wind in the trees that is were i long to be but i wish not to be alone but to share with others i have skills of many kind .i was a trapper ,a hunter,a mechanic,carpenter,a single father raised my kids from 1 year old .have worked over time and never took holidays and still am living from pay check to paycheck and i have many other skills to help if there is anyone else please coment on here lets all come together speak how you feel it will make your mind and heart feel better

2 sowehrd { 12.05.11 at 9:09 pm }

similar circumstances

3 Brenda { 03.03.12 at 8:07 pm }

Loved this post as, since childhood, it’s been my dream to live up in the mountains and off the land. But I’m 51 now, and would never be able to survive on my own. Have nothing to offer but some financial resources and a willingness to learn and to work. As long as my dogs are welcome and it’s not in a location I do not want to live (like on a fault line) I am interested.

4 bijounk { 05.09.12 at 9:20 am }

This is fate. I never believed in fate until now, but if this isn’t it, then I don’t know what is.

My husband and I have been planning and researching and planning and researching for years and years (ever since I was a teenager) how to live off grid. I am 26, he will be 31 this August, we’re flat broke and can’t see how we will ever be able to buy our own land but we are HARD working, very knowledgeable and kind people who have been looking for other like-minded people to start a “community” with. We don’t have children but really want to have one but can’t justify bringing a life into our current situation. We love animals (my husband worked at a farm as a second job until the gas prices rose too high) and he is a knowledgeable gardener. We are both very good carpenters, plumbers, he is good with electricity, I am good with computers, we both love being outside and we both love hard work that pays off, unlike the hard work we provide for “the man.” Your location is quite close to his parents (cincinnatus, ny) and if you are still interested, we would be happy to give you all of our hard work and what little money we have to start living off grid. We have experience with composting toilets (I built ours when we lived somewhere where we could have one), cabin building, tree-cutting, and a lot of other skills. If any of you who posted are still interested in living off grid, please let us know. We have the knowledge (and youth is still on our side) and the hard work, we just don’t have the means. We are very serious about this. I’m tired of planning, researching and dreaming, I need to start doing now before it’s too late!

I also wanted to add that we both know a lot of first aid and are very good at handling crisis, should any arise. My husband has never had health insurance and I haven’t had it in MANY years, so we have done a LOT of things on our own. I have severe asthma, so I know a lot about herbal remedies and have been successful at keeping both of us out of the emergency room :)

5 bijounk { 05.09.12 at 10:28 am }

OH!!! OH OH OH!!! I missed the original post (got lost between the ads and map)! Oh my, you sound exactly like my husband and I. We aren’t religious or anything but we feel exactly the same way about the school system and I was good friends (before we moved) with a woman who home-schooled her two children who were the two happiest kids I’d ever seen. My first response was toward Cecil and the others, but if we all (those of us still interested) pooled together, oh my, that would be wonderful! In case I didn’t post it before, my email is bijounk@gmail.com and we don’t live too far away from Williamsport, Pa.

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