Live in an Off-grid Homestead
Interested to start a survivalist community or find off-grid homestead settlements looking for members?
Many people want access to an off-grid community to live in or to retreat to in a time of disaster. 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 online work opportunities in even the most remote locations.
Ways to make a living in a remote off-grid homestead settlement
- 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 resources section of related 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.
Kin’s Domains: A homestead settlement movement in Eastern Europe congregates independent family domiciles.
The Possibility Alliance shows in video how young people have found a way to go back to basics.
