(When Steve was a kid he started a club that built tree forts.)
Would you like to live off grid, but don’t know where to start? I have created a step by step to do list that will get you from city life to off grid life. You may or may not take all of these steps or even take them in this order, but this will help you begin your journey.
- Sign up for our news letter, so you can stay up to date with our posts
- Begin the process of becoming debt free and start saving
- Decide how far off the grid you want to go
- Create a plan
- Start a garden
- Learn to hunt
- Learn about livestock
- Live cheaply and save up for your ideal lifestyle
- Buy your land
- Plan the placement of your home, well, garden, power system and waste system
- Find your well spot and install it
- Plant your trees
- Install your waste system
- Move onto your land and live in a tent or an RV
- Plan and design a new larger garden
- Get your chickens
- Design and build your root cellar
- Design and build pens for livestock and fence off pastures
- Build a barn
- Purchase your livestock
- Design and build a large greenhouse
- Design and build a year round aquaponics system
- Live cheaply and save up
- Build your dream home
- Install your power system
- Live happily ever after
For more information on each of these subjects follow the links provided. As I develop Living Off Grid Guide more and more of this list will have links, so you may want to save this page.
How about you? Leave a comment and tell me what steps you have taken or you plan on taking? Is there anything I left out?
did you know you could build a house with tires that right tires, millions of them go into land fills. go to youtube look up ( building a house with tires by Dennis Weaver )you do the work
what about a house out of adobe brick ( you do the work)
I live in golden valley AZ you can make a solar work heater using a used water heater. you build
what about a house out of recycled plastic bottles, go to youtube again
or let’s go underground, did you know that the temperature At depths below four feet, ground temperature stays a constant 50 to
55 degrees Fahrenheit year-round
Hi Juan. Good tips, you are absolutely right. You can build a home out of non-traditional materials and save money doing it. I’ll cover some of those techniques in future articles.
Great ideas
Thank you James!
I would like to know realistically how long does it take to being off the grid. Average?
Hi Lori,
It depends on how much money you have and what you are trying to achieve. If you want to get a rural home and be disconnected from utilities you should be able to do that within a year, assuming you have the money. If you are talking about growing all your own food as well, this is going to take years of practice. I’d say you need to give yourself at least 5 years of learning about crops, farming, livestock, butchering, harvesting and storing. It takes longer, because many of the farming processes are based on a yearly cycle.
However, most people I talk to don’t think of this as a destination, but as a journey. They buy some land and start to learn and build their homestead. They are successful as soon as they start. They just enjoy the process of creating and growing.
Good luck.
Steve