Live in an Off-Grid Community
Interested to start a survivalist community or find off-grid settlements looking for members?
Many people want access to an off-grid commune to live in or to retreat to when you need it. Going off-grid doesn’t mean you have to give up everything modern. With solar energy and Starlink, you could remain connected to communication and remote work opportunities in even the most remote locations.
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Ways to make a living in a remote off-grid community
- If you and your household are able to vacate your remote dwelling on occasion, visitor rent or timeshare payment could help cover your homeownership costs. Vacation rental online platforms can make advertising your place easy. Friends and family members may be interested in co-purchasing as an investment and as a vacation time share. Our consultants can help you work out the details together.
- You might find a way to make your remote setting the main part of your work. As a recreation business or retreat, you could have your remote peaceful setting and good company as well. Check out the pages retreat or event hosting or recreation venture teams with shared housing.
- Subsistence living is most often unaffordable, unless you are retired or independently wealthy. It requires skill sets that most urbanites might fantasize about but that require a large set of skills that take time to master. Setting up a farm, ranch, or ecovillage with others who have needed skills could be workable. Check out the pages ecovillage and urban agrihood and small farms and ranches.
- If you are able to work remotely, there are plenty of resources to help you explore your options and level up. Here are some great podcasts to get you started and plenty of online tips.
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Examples
Riverbed Ranch is an off-grid community offering affordable land and water rights in middle-of-nowhere Utah.
Living Energy Farm: an off-grid intentional community of nine adults and three children living on 127 acres of woods, fields, and orchards. They grow most of their own food, along with organic seed for income, and offer durable solar products that empower the transition away from fossil fuels and grid power.
Tiny homes in BC: One millennial couple purchased a large property to start an intentional community. A large farm in BC is looking for good company to share and/or invest in their somewhat remote self sufficient lifestyle.
The Possibility Alliance shows in video how young people have found a way to go back to basics.
Consultants for an Off Grid Commune
Cmatch can connect you with consultants who have deep experience in projects and living environments that thrive on close, sustained cooperation. These professionals are experts at guiding others through the unique opportunities and challenges of communal living.
The consultants listed below have subscribed to be featured on this page. For even more consultants with interest and expertise in this type of community, visit the consultants page linked in the header.
Members interested in an Off Grid Commune
ICmatch can connect you with communitarians who have similar interests and values. The members listed below have subscribed to be featured on this page. For even more members with interest in this type of community, visit the Match for Free page linked in the header.
Skid
Millennial
Female + male + dependent(s)
SouthWest US

PineTreeDisco
Millennial
Non-binary pair
New Haven, Connecticut
aSparkOfDivinity
Gen Z
Non-binary
Orange County, CA
selfdescriptivewords
Millennial
Female + male + dependent(s)
NY

VeganFoodForestIntentionalCommunity
Millennial
Male
Gualaquiza, Morona Santiago

FoodForestHeaven
Gen X
Male
Mexico
Resources
Back to Basics: A Complete Guide to Traditional Skills is a classic book for those wanting to master homesteading skills.
Acorn Land Labs: ingenious off-grid solutions shown on YouTube.
Archeologist Chris Begley podcast at time mark 54:30, describes how community is more important than survival skills.
Academy of Self-reliance and Utah OSR Land Co-op help people create self-reliant homesteads thru courses and youtube videos.
Doomsday scenarios: a collection of quotes about potential seismic shifts in the economic and institutional landscape.
Living energy farm has a wealth of information resources (scroll to the end).
The hard part: A seasoned communitarian describes challenges to off-grid living that you may not have thought of.
Self-sufficiancy and sustainability page: Find additional relevant resources here.