What To Expect If You're Going Off the Grid (a chat with Johanna Fugal)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2017
- Finally, the fourth chat in the "Planning and Preparedness" month for the skill of the month club. Johanna won't be on here for a few weeks as I have to chat with a couple of OTHER wonderful people (though I hope she will be back after that!). We wanted to get in this talk about our similar and different experiences of going off the grid.
Johanna and her family have a channel here: • Welcome to our Channel...
Johanna and her husband Adam also shared best and worst decisions on our other channel here: • Best and Worst Decisio...
You can also hop over to the Skill of the Month Club FB group to share your thoughts or brag your homework. / 363729293988483
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About the skill of the month club:
Part community, part skill-share, we're just a group of people hanging out together and trying to encourage awesomeness in every category having to do with simple living, intentional living and homestead life. Esther will do the lessons in the first month, but as we go on to different skills we'll be hearing from all sorts of experts!
Esther Emery is "the Homestead Wife" and the daughter of Carla Emery, author of The Encyclopedia of Country Living.
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Esther's book: What Falls From the Sky: How I Disconnected From the Internet and Reconnected With the God Who Made the Clouds -- www.estheremery.com/books/ and everywhere books are sold.
Esther's mom's book: The Encyclopedia of Country Living amzn.to/2fMuOQM
Esther's main TH-cam channel (with Nick Fouch): / fouchomaticoffgrid
Enjoy! - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
Love the fact that you keep telling people that your problems follow you.
you have to re think everything..everything ,,,it is also hard when one is ill,thankfully I have been blessed with good health!
Thank you ladies for being so open and frank. It has really helped to have food for thought.
I love the quiet too! We moved from a small town Fernie BC to Baynes Lake and there was no hwy noise of train it was so nice to hear only the birds.
I have lived in AK off grid for 24 years, we raised our family and now are empty nesters.I love oil lamps and wood stove heat and wood cooking. I plan on projects for the winter and I call it my hibernation time! I love Alaska and living off grid.
Yes, yes & YES! I'm on the grid, but live way out in the boonies. Much of my situation was transitioning from a suburban life to a backwoods one. A wise, older friend who experienced similar situations back in the late 60's told me: Temporarily roughing it doesn't prepare you. It only makes you confident that you think you are fine and can do it.
Of course she did make it (I'm still adjusting), but it is a huge shock!!
All very good and true points. I would add that there is only so much planning ahead that you can do, especially leading up to your first year. We just couldn't anticipate some things until we had our land and lived on it. We are six months on the homestead and living off grid and have learned more since being here than we did in the two years that we prepared to make this move.
I agree with that. So much!
Christine Conway So right on every point!
We are working towards off grid living up in the Michigan UP. However, my husband has to work in the city for a few more years. We bought a small inexpensive RV and hope that will take care of things like water heating, showers, etc. We will have to haul water until we dig a well. We will have generators and solar. We plan to build this up and only stay on the land during the warmer months until we make the big move. I love your yurt! I'm think about adding a yurt or a small dry cabin for living space in addition to the RV. We won't have animals to care for until we make the big move. I'm happy we are able to do things slowly.
Oh Esther I'm soo behind on the series lol.
I'm catching up today!! Can't wait to see the vids.
Thanks ladies 😘
Always love these talks. I think discussions like these are so important to help people who are homesteading, those looking to start, or just helping those watching for enjoyment understand some of the "behind the scenes" stuff of homesteading. A lot of homestead videos are more about the actions, the building, the gardening. So videos discussing the ups and downs, the emotions, the good and bad, etc is so important to fill in the rest of the story of homesteading. It is a lot more than just building and gardening.
You are fortunate to have like-mined neighbours. Thanks for the video.
Like Joanna, I, too, lived in the arctic, and getting used to long nights and long days was ... weird, but fun. When I moved back south (Southern Canada LOL) and lived in a van for four months, I found out to my surprise that I am a TOTAL 100% sun baby. I am up with the sun and down with it. I'm relatively useless in the winter. I don't get things done in the dark. I just don't. And I don't apologize for it. I think it's how the human body copes with the equinoxes. MHO.
I can totally relate. I used to live in the north but now live in the south. I have *zero* desire to go back. The thought of going back is just dead to me.
Awesome video. You two are 2017 pioneers! Thank you for sharing your life with us.
Thank you. Definitely some important thoughts. Thanks so much for sharing. We hope to be off grid this year and I hope and pray I can approach it with the "can do" attitudes you both exhibit. Also, I Love how you two both work so well with each other in the videos too.
So True, the Withdrawal Symptoms are kickers, for sure.
Great points you two ladies make. Thank you.
Love how your shared experiences , diminish the illusions, romantic fantasy of
off grid homesteading. Well done, with the reality spanking. Cheers.
"I li[ke] that milo takes car[e] of me"
awwwweee
for me, adapting=moving south. far. cold=Ahhhhhh!
I enjoyed this talk. Thanks ladies :)
I am a 50 yr old city girl trying to find my roots/way back home. 2 biggest obstacles are trying to do it alone and getting the courage up to accept failure, if iI can't make it on my own.
You can make it on your own, you just have to try. At least you are watching some good videos.
i can deal with quiet, darkness, weather changes, isolation, hard work, adaptability, and quick thinking, etc... but up until recently i had forgotten about something that unnerves me a bit when it happens... we get so spoiled living in the city with paved roads... so 4x4 Drive (lack there of in my case) & Dirt Roads... with potholes... trying to stay on the road... and in the general direction you're wanting to go... as well as... if you have eggs, glass, or anything breakable/spill-able in the vehicle... not such an easy task... and nerve-racking for me in general because i feel like there is no control of the vehicle sometimes going down a dirt road... driving phobia here... something i will need to get use to...
I enjoyed this video very much, thank you.
LOVE you guys so much...... :)
Buy a 12volt Winch mount it on a platform at the top of your hill, pull your sled up with it int the winter using the snow as your slide. Summer place round logs on the ground about a foot apart from the bottom of the hill to you get to the top, you can still use the sled to haul the water.
Thank you for sharing your experiences living off the grid. I don't think I could live without electricity. When we finally get our land and make a move, I think I will be putting up solar with batteries to store the power for night time. Still off the grid in a way but gives me a chance to build and make stuff after the sun goes down. :) You two stay warm in this cold winter.
Doesn't off grid mean living off the grid? Meaning you are not connected to the grid? Sounds like you on the grib with a generator for when your power goes out. I'm so confused.
Off the grid is thought of in many different ways. I think for the most part off the grid means you don't need the grid. In many places you have to tie into the grid even if you're not using the power. Probably the power companies using their lobbyist to pass laws so they can make more money. Being as you have to pay to hook up.
The grid is an actual grid of energy production. I live near Niagara Falls, so a lot of it is produced there (the power of all that water moving is harnessed) and all attached households can tap into that power. When there is a disruption in the grid (ie blackout 2003) all attached households have no power. People who live off grid sometiemes produce their own storehouses of energy (solar arrays connected to battery packs) or some use propane or other independent fuels that do not rely on the grid system.
I am glad I am only with myself, no children nor partner... I know what to expect from myself, I know what I'm able to do. Most work I do already in the way one does off the grid. And ... my plan for an off grid life is not where you are, but in a warmer climate...
Good talk!
So much wonderful insight and information in this vlog! We have no plans to go off grid but do want to be more prepared for an emergency off grid situation. I'm loving these Skill of the Month Club videos! :-)
Thank you so much!
Liked and subbed the Fugal's channel. Will include them in my prayers
artwork on the wall...I like that Milo takes care of me....sweetness magnified
I think when you realize that the work you do Isn't for someone else and for yourself and family the load lessons due to less amount of stress In doing It for a boss so to speak.. Let us reflect on how It makes us feel Inside when this Is realized..! :-)
i do have hens for eggs and make a lot of stuff homemade...and herbs and such...but I'm in Dutchess County NY and its really hard to live like you guys on a less than an acer...any tips...
what can it of running water do you have
Off-grid women are very cool, much better than city-women.
i feel like crap, cause i can't live without internet. I have a fiber business on easy..so what do i do.....
I have satellite internet. Works very well!
Seems like there’s tension between these two 😂
in my 60s now could never live this life style...wish i could
i am trying to make money...we live on a little money , pay check to pay check...one income