My husband and I have lived off grid since 1975. We are still off grid, though have had solar power for many years. Candles and kerosene lamps originally, with only a radio, books, weekly card games with a couple of friends who walked over from several miles away, and guitar for most entertainment. Will be 50 years on the same property on Easter Sunday of 2025. We were in our early 20's when we started, and now are in our early 70's. Inspired initially by the book written by Helen and Scott Nearing, "Living the good life", in which they constructed a stone house in Vermont, and tried to divide half of each day into working the land, the other half to more relaxing, spiritual and artistic pursuits. We spent/still spend a much greater portion of each day working, partly because we have animals to care for (which they did not).Dogs, a horse, 2 mules, and a sizable vineyard of over 100 grapes, and a small (but huge for 2 people) orchard. We have always loved stone work, and built our home and other buildings from that material, though we have sandstone here primarily, unlike the stone in Vermont. I just took these photos of some cabbage I picked and apple juice I canned on our wood stove a couple days ago. 50 years sounds like a long time, but time flies when you are loving what you do!
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