Are There Any Off Grid Homesteaders here? or Partial homesteaders? (money, market)
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There is a rural living section and a self-sufficiency and preparation section here on C-D.
In the frugal section, you will find several people who raise their own veggies, but might not consider themselves to be homesteaders. There are also veggie and chicken growers in the gardening sections.
My house uses solar-power, though I have access to grid-power [if the grid is up and if I want to use it].
Grid power in our township is unreliable, so every home in our town has at least one generator and/or solar power.
I breed pigs, and we garden a lot.
My wife and I have both been vendors in roadside Farmers Markets.
OP when you say "Off-grid" what do you mean, exactly?
Do you mean not using grid power?
Do you mean no telephone? No internet access? No radio? No TV?
I know people who live totally off-grid like that.
I enjoy this lifestyle. Our land is mostly dense forest, we have a quarter-mile of river frontage. We can not see any neighbors from our house, and no neighbors can see us.
I routinely see eagles and hawks flying over me when I am in the garden. When I started building our house, a moose used to hang up here a lot. Most winters a bear hibernates on my land. Foxes and fisher cats attack our chickens frequently.
... If you cannot find homesteaders/off-griders online, not sure how else to go about it?
There are a bunch of online forums that focus on homesteading / prepping / survivalism.
I am in a few different groups that practice all of these skill sets.
I read an article a year ago that claimed my state has the highest number of surviving hippy communes left over from the 1960s. The local culture here accepts it, if you want to grow your own food and market some at a roadside stand, people are very accepting of it here.
Many of our country-style fairs focus on off-grid self-sufficiency skills.
..... Just because he has disconnected from the grid doesn't mean he has disconnected from the internet or the real world.
The Net, that's one of those things.
I constantly go through this kind of mental argument of paying $75/5 G download a month for satellite while if I went dial up, I could probably have unlimited for not that much money more!
....................................till I recall that it is my use of the Net at home that I am trying to reduce not increase. I am trying to adopt a "Skippy, the Kangaroo" type life style.
So, to each their own.
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