Was such a goregous fall! The colors came and went all too quickly as per usual!

Hey guys!

Maybe this isn’t the place, but my partner and I are trying to make off grid living possible. We’re just in the beginning stages, but does anyone know of any programs where you can get “free” land for homesteading either in the US or Canada?

I've been traveling to communities for 3 years and I just moved to Wild Seeds Ranch. 1 month ago and it's my favorite community so far.

It's 40 minutes outside of downtown San Diego in a rural area close to BLM lands. It's 17 bedrooms and 20 bathrooms with 3 community kitchens. It's got:

🌱 100 year old oak trees and seasonal creek 🌱 coworking spaces 🌱 art room, makers space, and woodshop 🌱 outdoor kitchen, outdoor venue spaces, and outdoor bar 🌱 RV and camping spots 🌱 permaculture gardens

To be honest, we need more dudes. We are about 4 guys and 11 gals. We are especially looking for people who are handy -- know electrical, can use power tools, do minor plumbing, can flip a breaker, etc. We have a pretty good tool library already, and a lot of projects we're working on, like an outdoor sauna, a skateboard park, a recording studio, the list goes on.

So if you're a conscious doer, who loves to live a healthy life with others, check us out.

We have affordable housing $900-1600, plus you can come and park your van or RV because we have hookups, and even have space for tiny homes.

Come hang!

We're not currently offering work trade. All community members contribute 12 hours a month to make the social life, physical spaces, or community function.

I'm a woman. I'm wondering if there are specific groups or communities of people who live off grid together or nearby each other. If you know about them what are they like and how are they different from being by yourself?

Can someone tell me in a nutshell what this exemption does? Also any details in regards to transferring the property would be greatly appreciated(can I transfer to a spouse or young child).

What's the best 100gal metal water storage and how much does it cost?

I’m collecting water off our cabin roof. We use it for cleaning, bathroom toilet, shower. Recommendations for getting clean enough to drink?

So we found out This week that our landlady has sold the place and the new owners take over December 1st, which also happens to be the day our lease is up. And they would like us out by then We've searched the entire area for another place to rent, but the market is absolutely ridiculous around the calgary... And we got 4 kids, 3 huskies and 2 adults plus 3 cats... The only thing that I can find that's in my price range is Single rooms to rent or one bedroom. One bath apartments that they want 1600 to 1800 a month... I got too much on my credit right now. For a mortgage, buy house, and even if I could get it, there's still nothing that would be in my price range... So anyways, i'm going to be modifying my old 28 ft camping trailer.... Get my solar panels installed on the roof, Put a wood burning stove in...ect..ect Does anyone know what the procedure or protocol is for setting up on crown land?... Or does anybody know any good spots around the calgary area

So we bought land and plan on putting a tiny home or small cabin on it and slowly making it liveable while living an hour away for work. What measures of security can I use to deter people from breaking into our house while we aren't there?

I'm talking purely off grid, nothing else.

I am going to be walking to an outhouse in the middle of the woods and at night I’d rather not be in pure darkness walking through… if I have to just accept it and use my flashiligjt I’ll survive. But I’d rather have more light so I don’t get paranoid . I thought about solar string lights but the only place to put them would be in trees and I don’t want to cause a fire or squirrels chew them

Alternatively, what’s the best bright big flashlight I could buy?

Hi All, I'm looking for a space heater or electric heater that uses less than 500W or is very energy efficient. To heat my bedroom at my off grid cottage this winter. I have a Jackery solar generator to power it.

Hi, all! Just joined this subreddit, but I am in several other prepper related subs. I wanted to pose a question related to manual well pumps as a backup in case of power outage.

My wife and I recently purchased purchased a home, and it is on well water. It also has new solar that is owned by the home, and a new geothermal HVAC system. However, we cannot locate the well head. I am getting quotes to figure that part out.

But, does anyone have specific brands of backup manual pumps they recommend? Our well is supposedly ~250' deep. I know that matters. :)

Edit: weird how I am being downvoted for asking a well pump question in the appropriate subreddit lol.

Hey guys! Does anyone live off grid with an elderly person? What do you use for a life alert style system?

The situation: Remote, off grid sporting cabins with no cell service. My elderly FIL is there alone for days at a time. We connect a cell booster to a battery to get cell service and the home is wired for electricity which is provided via generator.

We've considered Garmin Inreach or other satellite based systems, however our Garmin's don't work inside the house and I doubt other systems would be much better.

Current thought is to add a battery bank to power the cell booster 24/7 and hope if something happens he's close enough to it to get a call out.

He's lived there for 50 years and will not move elsewhere. Thoughts? Anyone else facing this?

My wife and I are in the process of selling everything we own and buying property to start our off grid/homestead adventure. I’m going to be buying a truck that’s ready to eat up the American dream, and wondering if anybody out there had any recommendations as to what has served them well over the years. No maintained roads where we our looking, and gotta be able to haul a lot weight regularly.

Honestly not sure where this question belongs, but after weeks of Google searches on my breaks, I can't find an easy answer for this - so to Reddit I go! I am trying to find a non-electric water dispenser for 5-gallon, rectangular water jugs that you can refill at Walmart. I live off-grid and don't have a well just yet, so this is the only viable option for me currently. When looking on Amazon and Google shop, I can only find gravity dispensers for round ones. Does anyone have any suggestions?

I don't see a lot of info or anything about people living off grid with kids. We are planning on building it own off grid home and we have a toddler and I'm worried about how that will work out. Anyone know any laws we should keep to in the state of MO to keep our kid safe and avoid a cps issue

Battery is rated for 104 f degrees. Find the truth to be around 85.

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What should the water be filtered to. I think Berkeys go to 0.0001.

Whats your choice to get drinking water? And how would you go about it? Personally I'd like to get a well but I get worried about having to pay someone else to drill deeper than I would like and I would like a rain water collection but I don't wanna have to deal with still water.

I would like to build a thermoelectric generator using my wood stove that is capable of charging a 12v deep cycle battery, but have a whole lot of questions about how to make that happen. If there is anybody who has experience with this, I'd appreciate some insight.

To begin with, my budget is small so I'm thinking about buying 5 or so TEC1-12706 modules since they're on the cheaper side. I'm worried I'd just cook them if I pasted them right to the side of my stove, though.. so what should I use as a heat sink between the stove and module? I feel like a regular aluminum heat sink might still get too hot. As for the cooling side, I'm thinking a gravity fed water cooling system would be ideal, but is definitely not a simple setup. I would imagine that another heat sink on the cooling side would be pretty inaffective considering how close it would still be to the stove. So of anyone has any pointers on creating a water cooling system, heat sinks, or on anything at all about TEG's I'd love to hear them.

Hi!

Recently I bought the FOSSiBOT F2400 model and left it running for testing purposes. A few days ago I noticed that F2400 runs a Wi-Fi network called, ESP_A12FB3. What is concerning, is the fact that the network has open access, and anyone can connect.

I made a short recon, and there is no open port on 192.168.4.1. I'm wondering if this is a diagnostics port or if there is a bug that enabled the network.

Can somebody confirm that you can see the network too?