Live in an Off-Grid Community
Interested to start a survivalist community or find off-grid communities 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
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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.
Lifeboat Project: Highgrove Farm & Commons are networking to build local food security.
Academy of Self-reliance and Utah OSR Land Co-op help people create self-reliant homesteads thru courses and youtube videos.
Permies.com has a wealth of resources and forums about off-grid living.
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).
Emergency timeshare contract: If you are located within a day’s walk of a metropolitan area, you might offer disaster relief temporary shelter as a contracted prepaid service.
The hard part: A seasoned communitarian describes challenges to off-grid living that you may not have thought of.