She threw me off with the “hauling water”, bit. Homesteading is expensive if you don’t want to do the work. I grew up on a farm. Well water, chickens, grew our veggies, had cows, pigs, sold crops and animals (even pecans from our trees) to make income, drank cows milk fresh from the cow, our chickens/cows/pigs and even goats were food too, hunted deer, Grandma had us eating squirrels and rabbits, fished, we harvested peanut hay to feed our horse (I did as it was mine), Dad had a wood burning stove installed in the house, etc. Yes we had electricity and my Dad also worked but the point is, we had to work to survive and were close to living off the grid. You have to work hard to live off the grid, but it’s not expensive if you put in the work. Back in the days hard work was the normal.

She threw me off with the “hauling water”, bit. Homesteading is expensive if you don’t want to do the work. I grew up on a farm. Well water, chickens, grew our veggies, had cows, pigs, sold crops and animals (even pecans from our trees) to make income, drank cows milk fresh from the cow, our chickens/cows/pigs and even goats were food too, hunted deer, Grandma had us eating squirrels and rabbits, fished, we harvested peanut hay to feed our horse (I did as it was mine), Dad had a wood burning stove installed in the house, etc. Yes we had electricity and my Dad also worked but the point is, we had to work to survive and were close to living off the grid. You have to work hard to have living off the grid, but it’s not expensive if you put in the work. Back in the days hard work was the normal.