Anyone know someone who is completely off the grid?

I mean completely off the grid… they grow their own food… generate their own power etc…

I know the Amish community are still surviving.We still live that way in the villages back at home.
I think solar power is the biggest best thing that’s been invented.

lol very true… that actually just reminded me of the movie “The Village” anyone seen it? Basically it’s a few dozen people who decided to cut them selves off from society…. bough a very large piece of land and used fear to make sure nobody left the village… interesting topic

I once met a young lady who stayed in a community off-the-grid. Never really got to know her, though.

I spent 3 years off the grid in guadamala when I was young with my sister and parents. It was weird, but very educational.

wierd in what way?

I guess it was just not the normal thing to do. My sister was my best friend, and I didn’t really have very many friends. Although, it helped me brush up on my spanish. I guess I was a little resentfall back then, but now that I look on it, I learned so much, and have a nice different outlook.

Nate

ahh so which part of it was wierd? living off the grid or living in guadamala? or both?

i guess everything about it was a bit weird, or just different from what I was used to. I got used to it after a while…. then coming back to California was aslo weird.

There’s nothing weird about living off the grid…I think it’s fun.It’s just a different way/ style/type of living.
I did it when I was a child.
Bathroom outside…no roof mind you…..
When it rained, and we showered, it was rain and water from the tap, and our towels were under an umbrella to keep it dry.
Walked to school and played with the neighbours kids. Our friends were our neighbours, not some one on the website.
Had plantations, with vegies and root crops, we went fishing.It was fun, learnt a lot about life with those experiences.Had big family and still had a lot of love and things to share.
I think kids now days should go and stay some place like that,just to get a feel of what life is all about.

There’s nothing weird about living off the grid…I think it’s fun.It’s just a different way/ style/type of living.
I did it when I was a child.
Bathroom outside…no roof mind you…..
When it rained, and we showered, it was rain and water from the tap, and our towels were under an umbrella to keep it dry.
Walked to school and played with the neighbours kids. Our friends were our neighbours, not some one on the website.
Had plantations, with vegies and root crops, we went fishing.It was fun, learnt a lot about life with those experiences.Had big family and still had a lot of love and things to share.
I think kids now days should go and stay some place like that,just to get a feel of what life is all about.

Where and when was this?

Cali wasn’t soo weird Nate, cantalope, fruit growing all over, we lived “off” the grid there, but not like at U and I (United And Individual Community) was cool too, it is by Lake of the Ozarks/Missouri. the owner gives you 5 acres for $250 and a 99 yr lease, in the 70′s my daughter and I lived 2 years in a 2 room cave, we shaved our heads when the chiggers were horrible, I grew everything, ran nak*d.. United meant you wanted to be part of everyone, Individual if you wanted to be left alone.. we had a couple firefighters from NY, a excop, teachers.. built a school, one guy froze the milk for babies who didn’t drink goats milk or the canned-homemade formula, one woman pumped her milk til kids were 4 and 5, hubby like it too.. another story, we bought sold everything at co-op, farmers market, and crafts at the tourist traps, etc, I have missed it.. there still around, Cali, etc.. one in Luck, WI.

The Potter’s live off grid near Bancroft Ontario in a Earthship, you can visit them and pay for a tour, nice people I spent a weekend there helping build walls, dig a trench for foundation/wall, and parge/stucco a wall. Plus receiving tons of invaluable info on Earthships. I left them with a parabolic Solar Cooker to help spread the word as they had everything but a Solar Cooker in there Off Grid Life Style because you can’t expect to live as you do on the grid off of it.
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Hardwired, You just took me back in time again kiddo, ;> I’ve heard of Michael Reynolds, and the pop cans.