Your concept sounds good to me. I/we've been off grid in a GroovyYurt for 5 years now. We use 2% of the resources that we did in our prior lifestyle and it feels more luxurious now than it did then. Of course it requires a shift in priorities and an awareness of what really matters. We are lacking community though. With our values changed, we don't feel any deep connection to the community now. We crave relationships with like-minded people but they only seem to exist online. Our desire to participate in the economy is greatly throttled into a few possible avenues that feel worthwhile but it's tough marketing sustainability to a world that has or can get anything it wants in an instant. How do you sell a fruit tree seedling to someone that can tap their phone and have a beautiful piece of fruit parachuted in from the other side of the world?
Lovely! I used to speak with someone on voat.co who lived off the grid in a very leafy mountain, we were in contact via email and his photos were amazing. He said it was hard at first with his family, but they were a few years into it and loving it.
If, for some reason, we ever had to return to a house (box) and urban life with wires, etc, I think I'd die inside. Everything we need for our souls lies beyond our manicured reality.
Your concept sounds good to me. I/we've been off grid in a GroovyYurt for 5 years now. We use 2% of the resources that we did in our prior lifestyle and it feels more luxurious now than it did then. Of course it requires a shift in priorities and an awareness of what really matters. We are lacking community though. With our values changed, we don't feel any deep connection to the community now. We crave relationships with like-minded people but they only seem to exist online. Our desire to participate in the economy is greatly throttled into a few possible avenues that feel worthwhile but it's tough marketing sustainability to a world that has or can get anything it wants in an instant. How do you sell a fruit tree seedling to someone that can tap their phone and have a beautiful piece of fruit parachuted in from the other side of the world?
Lovely! I used to speak with someone on voat.co who lived off the grid in a very leafy mountain, we were in contact via email and his photos were amazing. He said it was hard at first with his family, but they were a few years into it and loving it.
If, for some reason, we ever had to return to a house (box) and urban life with wires, etc, I think I'd die inside. Everything we need for our souls lies beyond our manicured reality.