There's also mountaineering communities who migrate with the seasons. Living totally off free land and bartering for cash to pay only for their hunting and fishing licenses. Basically a nomad life style. Not a free loading hippy life style.
They could start and monetize a TH-cam channel on how to do what they're doing, Great idea! I'd watch and tell people about it! There's also a teaching ap that says people are doing pretty well on it income wise.
I think the one thing I would do if I was you two would be to invest in wind power along with the solar. It seems to always be windy there. Maybe just as a back up source if nothing else. If I was in my mid 20's instead of mid 60's I would be doing what you guys doing for sure.
Wind power as a supplement sounds good. Take a look at Kris Harbor, he's in Wales, he's build his own turbine and does hydro electric, built a hobbit house from the timber on his land. For a young fellow he's done so well.
The largest investment is time and the work put in. Certainly land is just as important but, I'm in the same mindset as you with using what you have and to innovative.
I believe you two are doing what is great living off grid like you are. You both are so smart, and you will always have something do while you live like this. I love it.
Building a nice van is almost as much. I was thinking of that for a while but the more I watch you two the more I want land instead. Build my own place at my pace. I’m hoping to grab land before winter. I have a friend who lives in AZ and has a place in NM and said they would check the property out for me when I am ready. That’s a huge help to me. I live in MA. I’m tired of the snow and freezing cold. Heat doesn’t bother me, I was a licensed de-leader so I had to wear that stupid tyvec. You get really hot in those.
Just make sure that there is creeks, ponds, a good well, no restrictions, property taxes, building a house etc. Does the house have to be a minimum size or can you build what you want. BLESSINGS
@@judya.shroads8245 Also... in the future, maybe more nearer than we think, many hot places will be unlivable. In India right now, three months of heat so bad, birds are falling from the skies, thousands dying of heat stroke..... It is almost certain that huge swaths of land will be essentially uninhabitable for much of the year on this planet.
15K for 40 acres!!! You guys scored!!!! Those days are over. Work from home has permanetly changed that. You guys are smart in the way you have gone about setting up your lives.
There is only one definition for "off-grid living ". Living "off-grid " means that you are not connected to a electric power company or municipality, and/or a water company or municipality and/or a sewer company and/or municipality by a direct connection from your property to their service line. If you are connected to one or more then you are not "off-grid", period, no exceptions!
Hello! I'm new to your channel but not to off-grid living. I am building an off-grid container house in the west Texas desert. I have a 1900 SF water catchment roof and three 2750 gallon tanks. I have a small solar energy system for basics and I'm working on the finish-out of the container. Money is always the biggest hurdle. I'm fond of saying, "it costs a lot of money to live cheap!"
Thank you for letting me know how much is for all your solar system panels in boxes and etc. $15,000 not bad in the long run yes that’s more efficient what we need to do thank you Jim and Jess you guys are the best may God bless you out there and keep you safe throughout your lives
You have given really great advice here Jess and Jim. Hubby and I are OLDER homies but we are still quite new to it all. We harvest our water and have a compost toilet and outdoor shower, but because of medical issues (cpap and the need to keep medications evenly cold) we chose to go on the grid - no regrets, it wasnt terribly expensive and we consider it an investment. We are loving the lifestyle! Many happy returns Jim!
Nice cost breakdown! Our well was $15,000 including the pump and pressure tanks. It's a shared well for 3 households on the property. We are in a bit of a river valley, so we have good water even though we are in the southern Arizona desert. Our solar was $6,000, and DIY septic was $5,000. Our two shipping containers, with shade roof, solar room and panel mount was $10,000, but the shipping containers and materials have really gone up now. ❤️🏜️
@@1icepop234 It is $2,000 an acre including the well. We included the well, because our kids have their own parcels, as well as my mom, so that's how we divided up the cost of the well. Our piece is 21 acres, and the whole parcel is 45 acres. 🙂🏜️
A lot of people in the desert buy water from a town, and haul it to their homestead. It's inexpensive if you haul it for yourself. We like MANY other's get I.C.B. totes, and haul it on a trailer, or a pick up truck. It can cost as little as a penny a gallon. You can pay a water hauler if you want but the cost goes up to 100.00 + for the service.
Depends upon how one defines 'hermits', as well. I'm not a social person and live independently in isolation from other humans, but I have a phone in case of emergencies, and observe the world from the end of my WiFi. Hermits aren't necessarily ignorant. JS Love your philosophies on sustainable and mindful living. It's all about quality of living, rather than quantity of money; contributing to the eco system, instead of abusing it. The world needs a few billion more folks like you. 😎
The well pump is a Submersible Deep Well Water Pump! There pretty cheap depends on the volume and psi. I got a 103 gallons a min. for $159 dollars, The holding tank is 350 gallons, cost 360 dollars, The only maintenance is the 1st year draining sand out of the tank. When the cavity settles down, there no more sand draining if you want to check it? just open the valve, and see if sand comes out. THAT IT well i said that it? but some time the contact point on the break gets a little corroded ~ just turn off the electric and sand it down a little bit, and turn the electric back on. That what kick your pump off and on, from the float valve in the Holding tank, I only got 1 holding tank cause i don't waste water watering my lawn! If you use a lot of water mean more holding tanks, to keep the pump from pumping off and on so much Then you got a air pressure gauge, tell ya how much pressure on the line, i keep around 65 to 80 lbs of pressure on my lines. Yes my water hose does dance around he hee i like the pressure ~ longer hose make it settle down
When you drill a well if you do hit water you don't no what kind f water is down there. Could be lots of salt,or iron. Rain water is distilled water for the most part. Your pipes and water heater will last much h longer. You won't have to worry about your clothing turning orange from iron in the water. No need for a water soften.
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH, THIS VIDEO WAS VERY HELPFUL TO US. VERY INTERESTING AND NOW, WE HAVE AN IDEA ON HOW MUCH AND ON WHAT IT TAKES. THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN. WE APPRECIATE IT, IMMENSELY. WE LOVE ALL YOU DO. YOUR EFFORTS WON'T BE INVANE. KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT.
Good day friends 😁🏆 I really love your show .... I subscribed back when you started your dome home ..... I personally feel your water catchment is the best I've seen .... how you built the huge metal roof to protect your assets and provide a big surface to collect a large amount of water was genius..... I watcha few other shows from people in your area and live very close to you .... and they do a good job .... but .... they have no good water catchment systems like yours .... and I feel water and protecting your investments is #1 priority...... keep up the fabulous job 😁
Wonderful video Jess & Jim ,Thank you for all of information what & how both of you are living off Grid Green Life style growing your own foo Ect# I will be getting the book
I'm a little jealous of your land price :) We're looking in North Texas and prices are quite high. We may have to go to Oklahoma or Colorado to find something affordable.
You people are lovely! Such a cute couple! I really enjoy your podcast! Very courageous and smart perspective! Pretty funny Jim! Jess continually saves you!🤣😂
Thanks for sharing a cost breakdown. I'd imagine to have some water catchment, for my situation right now it is cost prohibitive. I'll have to save..... One day....
In '71, when I was an infant, my family moved to British Columbia, Canada, bought 80 acres built a larger house while camping on the land in the summers, didn't need a building permit in the back woods back then, paid it all off in five years. Fast forward to today, and you need to pay the government $500 to take an exam to be a certified "Owner Builder" in BC now (I'll use Canadian dollars in my post here -- for US dollars think of 2/3 of what Canadian dollars are). Then, you can't live in an RV for more than a certain amount of time, and you have to get a permit to do so (just to camp out on your own land). Then, inspections cost a lot and it all has to be done to code (which isn't entirely bad if you're buying a home already built, at least you know it had to go through inspections along the way). And, if you're not hooking up to a municipal water system, to get a septic system, they now require a certified septic installer to install it, or sign off on it, which is very costly. Nowadays, it also costs over $300 sq/ft to build in the interior of BC if you hire a contractor to do it, instead of yourself. It's all gone nuts! So much red tape and a person has to have deep pockets to live off grid. I suppose the only places left are waterways, so some live on sailboats.... but mostly, the old days of homesteading are coming to an end, except for wealthy folks. :-(
@@OfftoShambala Right? And "they" being a whole pile of bureaucrats who have slowly been building their little empires, gouging people for their services, which have become mostly about serving themselves rather than their original purpose: to make sure people build safe homes to live in. The bad part is for the adventurous spirit, for the Renaissance people, like our dear Green Dreamers (who have busted their bippies to make it all come true) those opportunities to live a life of more self-reliance are dwindling. I know, having grown up a child of "back-to-the-landers" as we were called in the 70's, that it is much less physical work to just work for someone in a city, and be able to walk down the block, grab a latte, and go home and watch t.v., etc. My friends who lived in town, they got ten bucks allowance per/week, I got two. I lived without electricity until I was six. We didn't have solar panels in those days. I watched my parents work, work, work, like little beavers, constantly gardening, going to their part time day jobs, coming home, chopping wood, building a shop so we could fix our own vehicles, digging a root cellar so we could store our own vegetables, digging our own well, stacking wood, lighting a fire, cooking a dinner from scratch, canning, storing, cleaning, making very detailed shopping lists so when we did forget something we didn't have to drive back 45 min's to town to get it, maintaining and repairing the truck and car, baking bread, building a business on the side so they could quit the day job. It just went on and on... But, it was exciting in many ways, and the beauty of living in a forest with dogs and our cats and chickens, and we felt alive and we ate so well, but we lived on what families on welfare lived on for a whole year but we didn't beg from the government at all. Our house kind of looked like what the house was like in the movie The Jerk with Steve Martin. Where he grew up. Old weathered wood. We were poor, but rich with land and ideas and a real love of making it on our own. It helped that my dad grew up on a farm and had the strong back and arms and willingness to improvise and fix things. It was a struggle worth the effort! It's not the same these days. Inflation has made wages stagnate, cars can't be fixed without computers, land is costly. That's why I love watching some of these TH-cams (especially this channel) and getting to see some young folk going out and doing it.
I should add that there are some way-out chunks of land in Canada that are still cheap to buy. This is important to recognize, as this couple did with land in AZ. But, when I was a kid, the land was cheap in places with ample job opportunities. So, it's harder today.
Having the body energy to make little homesteaders of an evening at least one pound of chocolate chip cookies and a large tub of vanilla or peach icecream
Definition of off grid as you say is so different for different people. As much as some of us would like to be out of the "system" the reality is somewhat different. How do you repair/ maintain your infrastructure? answer, businesses that are in the system. Health care is also an issue, think you get the point, we all have to rely on others to live a life that we perceive as being opting out to think otherwise is naive. That's not to say we can't live a life that is less impactful on society.
Price of land went up a lot around here. I wish we could’ve gotten more land. We need a big buffer zone. I’m happy here though. 🤗 Definitely love this RV. Ours was used too. Great savings! Just think of all the rent we didn’t pay in the last 4 years. 😃❤️
he hee idk if i can live with out heat and air? I find myself turning it on ~ SO THERE THE ANSWER! You must live comfortable! Mean high insulation a must! To cut down on heating and cooling! Finding other sources. Like a swamp cooler. ect. Solar heat and electric! wind power to me is the best..
Off grid living isn't free. There are things that need to be invested in, somethings can be done frugally and some are driven by the market value depending on where you live.
Constructive comment, this was your best video for some time. Of course, this is just my opinion, others (silly people) might disagree. Great frank video. 👍🍷
Thank you for sharing. 😊
There's also mountaineering communities who migrate with the seasons. Living totally off free land and bartering for cash to pay only for their hunting and fishing licenses. Basically a nomad life style. Not a free loading hippy life style.
I could see y’all making a business out of how to live off grid. This information is extremely helpful. Thank y’all for sharing this!
They could start and monetize a TH-cam channel on how to do what they're doing, Great idea! I'd watch and tell people about it! There's also a teaching ap that says people are doing pretty well on it income wise.
I think the one thing I would do if I was you two would be to invest in wind power along with the solar. It seems to always be windy there. Maybe just as a back up source if nothing else. If I was in my mid 20's instead of mid 60's I would be doing what you guys doing for sure.
Wind power as a supplement sounds good. Take a look at Kris Harbor, he's in Wales, he's build his own turbine and does hydro electric, built a hobbit house from the timber on his land. For a young fellow he's done so well.
The largest investment is time and the work put in. Certainly land is just as important but, I'm in the same mindset as you with using what you have and to innovative.
Awesome to hear Jess speaking so much! Sounds like a pro!
I believe you two are doing what is great living off grid like you are. You both are so smart, and you will always have something do while you live like this. I love it.
You guys are doing a great job. Keep up the good work. Off Grid can look romantic but is definitely difficult.
I agree!
You guys are killing the off griding
Lol! I don't know about that. We're just trying our best.
Building a nice van is almost as much. I was thinking of that for a while but the more I watch you two the more I want land instead. Build my own place at my pace. I’m hoping to grab land before winter. I have a friend who lives in AZ and has a place in NM and said they would check the property out for me when I am ready. That’s a huge help to me. I live in MA. I’m tired of the snow and freezing cold. Heat doesn’t bother me, I was a licensed de-leader so I had to wear that stupid tyvec. You get really hot in those.
Just make sure that there is creeks, ponds, a good well, no restrictions, property taxes, building a house etc.
Does the house have to be a minimum size or can you build what you want.
BLESSINGS
@@judya.shroads8245 Also... in the future, maybe more nearer than we think, many hot places will be unlivable. In India right now, three months of heat so bad, birds are falling from the skies, thousands dying of heat stroke..... It is almost certain that huge swaths of land will be essentially uninhabitable for much of the year on this planet.
earthbag building is cheap monetarily but labor intensive. so, consider that....
Not a bad price at all. The labor is key to saving a ton of money. Thanks for the info. Stay safe my friends!
15K for 40 acres!!! You guys scored!!!! Those days are over. Work from home has permanetly changed that. You guys are smart in the way you have gone about setting up your lives.
Great information! Thanks for sharing. 😁❤️
There is only one definition for "off-grid living ". Living "off-grid " means that you are not connected to a electric power company or municipality, and/or a water company or municipality and/or a sewer company and/or municipality by a direct connection from your property to their service line. If you are connected to one or more then you are not "off-grid", period, no exceptions!
Awesome video you both and very well explained. There's definitely not a one size fits all. I admire all of your work. Thanks for sharing
Wow 2 videos in less than a week
Love it.
Hello! I'm new to your channel but not to off-grid living. I am building an off-grid container house in the west Texas desert. I have a 1900 SF water catchment roof and three 2750 gallon tanks. I have a small solar energy system for basics and I'm working on the finish-out of the container. Money is always the biggest hurdle. I'm fond of saying, "it costs a lot of money to live cheap!"
Thank you for letting me know how much is for all your solar system panels in boxes and etc. $15,000 not bad in the long run yes that’s more efficient what we need to do thank you Jim and Jess you guys are the best may God bless you out there and keep you safe throughout your lives
The biggest key is REALLY wanting to live that lifestyle because it is a lot of WORK!!
The other option, the way pretty much everyone lives, is a lot of work that is ultimately a waste of time and it can all be easily destroyed.
Thank you for ur honesty and simplistic review. Truth be told. Everything has its cost
You have given really great advice here Jess and Jim.
Hubby and I are OLDER homies but we are still quite new to it all. We harvest our water and have a compost toilet and outdoor shower, but because of medical issues (cpap and the need to keep medications evenly cold) we chose to go on the grid - no regrets, it wasnt terribly expensive and we consider it an investment. We are loving the lifestyle!
Many happy returns Jim!
Good job, investing at the right time and showin em how it’s done.
Y'all are great in teaching people better ways to live their dream!
Nice cost breakdown! Our well was $15,000 including the pump and pressure tanks. It's a shared well for 3 households on the property. We are in a bit of a river valley, so we have good water even though we are in the southern Arizona desert. Our solar was $6,000, and DIY septic was $5,000. Our two shipping containers, with shade roof, solar room and panel mount was $10,000, but the shipping containers and materials have really gone up now. ❤️🏜️
How much was your land?
@@1icepop234 It is $2,000 an acre including the well. We included the well, because our kids have their own parcels, as well as my mom, so that's how we divided up the cost of the well. Our piece is 21 acres, and the whole parcel is 45 acres. 🙂🏜️
Been following your videos on and off for quite a while, you guys are amazing and it's so cool to see your property expand.
You didn’t mention the cost of your solar. I was waiting for that.
A lot of people in the desert buy water from a town, and haul it to their homestead. It's inexpensive if you haul it for yourself. We like MANY other's get I.C.B. totes, and haul it on a trailer, or a pick up truck. It can cost as little as a penny a gallon. You can pay a water hauler if you want but the cost goes up to 100.00 + for the service.
Awesome to hear economic facts in its entirety from both of you, Jess & Jim.
Gives One a *QUICK RECKONER* to work out One’s own project.
*THANK YOU❤️*
What a great team!👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you for this video 👍🏽👍🏿👍👍🏻from Quebec, Canada 🍁
Depends upon how one defines 'hermits', as well. I'm not a social person and live independently in isolation from other humans, but I have a phone in case of emergencies, and observe the world from the end of my WiFi. Hermits aren't necessarily ignorant. JS
Love your philosophies on sustainable and mindful living. It's all about quality of living, rather than quantity of money; contributing to the eco system, instead of abusing it. The world needs a few billion more folks like you. 😎
Amazed and pleased you made the Kaine reference. :)
Thanks for sharing 👍😀
The well pump is a Submersible Deep Well Water Pump! There pretty cheap depends on the volume and psi. I got a 103 gallons a min. for $159 dollars, The holding tank is 350 gallons, cost 360 dollars, The only maintenance is the 1st year draining sand out of the tank. When the cavity settles down, there no more sand draining if you want to check it? just open the valve, and see if sand comes out. THAT IT well i said that it? but some time the contact point on the break gets a little corroded ~ just turn off the electric and sand it down a little bit, and turn the electric back on. That what kick your pump off and on, from the float valve in the Holding tank, I only got 1 holding tank cause i don't waste water watering my lawn! If you use a lot of water mean more holding tanks, to keep the pump from pumping off and on so much Then you got a air pressure gauge, tell ya how much pressure on the line, i keep around 65 to 80 lbs of pressure on my lines. Yes my water hose does dance around he hee i like the pressure ~ longer hose make it settle down
Thanks for the reminder of all the awesome resource we have, I haven’t been on the forums in a while but they are such a great resource!
What an incredible video. Love you guys and your journey. Thank you for sharing!
When you drill a well if you do hit water you don't no what kind f water is down there. Could be lots of salt,or iron. Rain water is distilled water for the most part. Your pipes and water heater will last much h longer. You won't have to worry about your clothing turning orange from iron in the water. No need for a water soften.
When are you going to get back to building? I’m really missing it. ❤️❤️❤️
We're always building 😉 Next update, Saturday
Always ready to hear the latest update from both you and Rusty in New Mexico!! Stay safe my friends.
in az 5acres or more by state law can be declared "agriculture exempt" from local building codes.... research it...
This was a great video! Really great information! Thanks for sharing!
THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH,
THIS VIDEO WAS
VERY HELPFUL TO US.
VERY INTERESTING AND
NOW, WE HAVE AN IDEA
ON HOW MUCH AND ON
WHAT IT TAKES.
THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN.
WE APPRECIATE IT,
IMMENSELY.
WE LOVE ALL YOU DO.
YOUR EFFORTS
WON'T BE INVANE.
KEEP UP THE GOOD FIGHT.
Thank you for sharing!!!
Thank you for sharing all of this with us. very much appreciated.
Nice but how about finishing the dome!
Thank you for the information it's very helpful to know although as fast as prices are rising the cost is probably twice as much today.
Good day friends 😁🏆 I really love your show .... I subscribed back when you started your dome home ..... I personally feel your water catchment is the best I've seen .... how you built the huge metal roof to protect your assets and provide a big surface to collect a large amount of water was genius..... I watcha few other shows from people in your area and live very close to you .... and they do a good job .... but .... they have no good water catchment systems like yours .... and I feel water and protecting your investments is #1 priority...... keep up the fabulous job 😁
Excellent video guys.
Wonderful video Jess & Jim ,Thank you for all of information what & how both of you are living off Grid Green Life style growing your own foo Ect# I will be getting the book
Great score on your land
👍👍👍👍👍
You guys are doing a good job and I enjoy were watching you so keep up the good work and I will keep watching God bless
Awesome share guys!!
Great video. Thanks. Freedom Communities Are The Future. ❤️🌱🌞🌲🌲🌳🏡🌳🌲🌳🏡🌳🌲🌲🌳🏡👍❤️
I'm a little jealous of your land price :) We're looking in North Texas and prices are quite high. We may have to go to Oklahoma or Colorado to find something affordable.
You people are lovely! Such a cute couple! I really enjoy your podcast! Very courageous and smart perspective! Pretty funny Jim! Jess continually saves you!🤣😂
As for solar, you live where there’s a lot of sun. Most does. Has, oil, propane are the way to go
opened video with volume down, thoughti heard 9 to 5 playing,,, how appropriate would that be, lol,,, luv the vids yall
Hi I believe when you finish the Dome you Will need less water to survive . Good luck.May God bless you 🥰🥰
Thanks for the details.
what about multipurpose aluminum paint to cover and protect your expensive poly tanks from UV rays.
Thanks for sharing a cost breakdown. I'd imagine to have some water catchment, for my situation right now it is cost prohibitive. I'll have to save..... One day....
Nice! Happy birthday old man. Wish we could find some help but we are not as organic eating as wwofing
In '71, when I was an infant, my family moved to British Columbia, Canada, bought 80 acres built a larger house while camping on the land in the summers, didn't need a building permit in the back woods back then, paid it all off in five years.
Fast forward to today, and you need to pay the government $500 to take an exam to be a certified "Owner Builder" in BC now (I'll use Canadian dollars in my post here -- for US dollars think of 2/3 of what Canadian dollars are). Then, you can't live in an RV for more than a certain amount of time, and you have to get a permit to do so (just to camp out on your own land). Then, inspections cost a lot and it all has to be done to code (which isn't entirely bad if you're buying a home already built, at least you know it had to go through inspections along the way). And, if you're not hooking up to a municipal water system, to get a septic system, they now require a certified septic installer to install it, or sign off on it, which is very costly. Nowadays, it also costs over $300 sq/ft to build in the interior of BC if you hire a contractor to do it, instead of yourself.
It's all gone nuts! So much red tape and a person has to have deep pockets to live off grid. I suppose the only places left are waterways, so some live on sailboats.... but mostly, the old days of homesteading are coming to an end, except for wealthy folks. :-(
They’ve set it up so you’ve got to have deep pockets to live anywhere.
@@OfftoShambala Right? And "they" being a whole pile of bureaucrats who have slowly been building their little empires, gouging people for their services, which have become mostly about serving themselves rather than their original purpose: to make sure people build safe homes to live in. The bad part is for the adventurous spirit, for the Renaissance people, like our dear Green Dreamers (who have busted their bippies to make it all come true) those opportunities to live a life of more self-reliance are dwindling.
I know, having grown up a child of "back-to-the-landers" as we were called in the 70's, that it is much less physical work to just work for someone in a city, and be able to walk down the block, grab a latte, and go home and watch t.v., etc. My friends who lived in town, they got ten bucks allowance per/week, I got two. I lived without electricity until I was six. We didn't have solar panels in those days.
I watched my parents work, work, work, like little beavers, constantly gardening, going to their part time day jobs, coming home, chopping wood, building a shop so we could fix our own vehicles, digging a root cellar so we could store our own vegetables, digging our own well, stacking wood, lighting a fire, cooking a dinner from scratch, canning, storing, cleaning, making very detailed shopping lists so when we did forget something we didn't have to drive back 45 min's to town to get it, maintaining and repairing the truck and car, baking bread, building a business on the side so they could quit the day job. It just went on and on...
But, it was exciting in many ways, and the beauty of living in a forest with dogs and our cats and chickens, and we felt alive and we ate so well, but we lived on what families on welfare lived on for a whole year but we didn't beg from the government at all. Our house kind of looked like what the house was like in the movie The Jerk with Steve Martin. Where he grew up. Old weathered wood.
We were poor, but rich with land and ideas and a real love of making it on our own. It helped that my dad grew up on a farm and had the strong back and arms and willingness to improvise and fix things. It was a struggle worth the effort! It's not the same these days. Inflation has made wages stagnate, cars can't be fixed without computers, land is costly. That's why I love watching some of these TH-cams (especially this channel) and getting to see some young folk going out and doing it.
I should add that there are some way-out chunks of land in Canada that are still cheap to buy. This is important to recognize, as this couple did with land in AZ. But, when I was a kid, the land was cheap in places with ample job opportunities. So, it's harder today.
I got my Skip book too!
Awesome
Do you have to put another layer of cob to seal the out side layer of the dome build.
Did you concider Edison batteries for electrical storage?
What do you for the sewer thing?
Can you please make a video on that?
One way to purchase a property for nothing or little down is to find a property which is owner financed.
Thumbs up!
I used to watch Grizzly Adam's also.😍
Having the body energy to make little homesteaders of an evening at least one pound of chocolate chip cookies and a large tub of vanilla or peach icecream
Definition of off grid as you say is so different for different people. As much as some of us would like to be out of the "system" the reality is somewhat different. How do you repair/ maintain your infrastructure? answer, businesses that are in the system. Health care is also an issue, think you get the point, we all have to rely on others to live a life that we perceive as being opting out to think otherwise is naive. That's not to say we can't live a life that is less impactful on society.
Is there any trees 🌳 that will grow in the 🏜 and dry countryside
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 love you guys.
Hello. I was wondering if you could direct me on how to implement a Barrel Composting Toilet System. Please. Thank you!
We have videos on it. First you should check and see if your allowed to build it.
Price of land went up a lot around here. I wish we could’ve gotten more land. We need a big buffer zone. I’m happy here though. 🤗 Definitely love this RV. Ours was used too. Great savings! Just think of all the rent we didn’t pay in the last 4 years. 😃❤️
I bet y'all could use a bigger buffer. Sorry you have to deal with the "neighbors" 😬
My well was over $50K, cased 900ft deep and I only get 7gpm. Everyone around me has drilled dry wells.
Wow!
Where is your well located at?
How much photos panels and all the equipment to hook up solar systems the question I’m asking
Thanks for sharing! What sort of inverter did you use with the Tesla batteries? Thanks 🙏👍
Schneider. I'm not sure if they still make them though.
I like the earth ships they build in New Mexico.😉😍
he hee idk if i can live with out heat and air? I find myself turning it on ~ SO THERE THE ANSWER! You must live comfortable! Mean high insulation a must! To cut down on heating and cooling! Finding other sources. Like a swamp cooler. ect. Solar heat and electric! wind power to me is the best..
If I went off grid and become a hermit I would spend a fortune on aluminum foil. for hats
For me and my 5 dogs. Gotta keep them safe to.
when are we gong to get back to work on the casa//////
Saturday 😉
@@ourselfreliantlife great news
Off grid living isn't free. There are things that need to be invested in, somethings can be done frugally and some are driven by the market value depending on where you live.
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Is wind power something viable for your homestead?
Not for ours, but maybe other people
The camper is totally inefficient regarding staying cool or warm
What no crew until the very end. I am heartbroken and devastated really I am (L.O.L).
It's the lifestyle that's great.
gutters and barrel for those solar panels water the chickens..
It costs as much or as little as a person wants and can afford.
Does your cistern have water in it yet?
It has water
excellent video, $45000 and plus your labor
Ok, just a thought. You build more of those Round earth bag houses as AirBandB 😍?
Maybe!😉👍
The black poly tanks? HOW long are they supposed to last? 30 years?🤔
Constructive comment, this was your best video for some time. Of course, this is just my opinion, others (silly people) might disagree. Great frank video. 👍🍷
I am near Pearce. What is your nearest town?
Douglas
It makes no sense that you didn’t build the rainwater roof over the camper and the fifth wheel