![]() ![]() We’ve done a winter in our yurt (read more by clicking that link) and it was warm as we had a fire. Because on one hand we feel so open to the elements, and lots of our activities are weather dependant, or go ahead despite the weather and are turned from a pleasant job to a freaking AWFUL one. This one is the bridge between the bad and the good sides of living off grid. Living off the grid gets the weather in your face Having to park our car 180 metres away and hike up with the girls and all our gear in the pouring rain has been a bit of a major mission. Going without hot water for so long, months and months, was pants. Slowly, mindful use of electricity just becomes the new normal.Īnd then, sometimes stuff is hard, with not much positive spin to be wrung out of it. ![]() There have been times when we have just had to shut everything down this winter. Living off the grid involves an entire mind revolution when it comes to electricity. It’s something that is just part of life and only ever feels like a positive thing isn’t it awesome that we don’t throw away something that is SO good for our trees?! They just make SO much sense that we quite quickly got used to the idea of treating our waste differently. Some of the things that might seem hard (like having an outhouse instead of an internal bathroom and a composting toilet that doesn’t flush) are not as hard as you might think. Living off the grid is hard and not so hard □ link in profileĪ photo posted by Lulastic & the Hippyshake on at 1:08am PDT Includes a video of our tidy half a yurt AND our shocker messy half. She’s found a feast of crumbs under that table □ There’s a new post up on the blog all about motherhood, tidiness and creativity. Hen in the yurt alert □ way more energy efficient than hoovering if you think about it. We’ve had to write off whole days, WEEKS, due to rain storms and stuff. Mind you… the weather hasn’t exactly been a friend in all this. We thought we’d have hydroelectricity set up so we could have endless electricity, but that got moved down the list. And that’s with crossing things off with the scribble “revisit 2018″… We thought we would have an add on to our yurt built before the winter, a sort of porch/ wet room where we can keep wet coats and welly boots and store tools and things, but that hasn’t happened yet. Working our bums off and we have only got two thirds through our To Do list. Things that you don’t really think about as costing actually money are REALLY expensive- things like timber and nails and pipes.Įverything takes FOREVER. But to set it all up really does cost a lot. One of the things that has been a bit of a shock is how much money everything has cost! Ultimately living off the grid ends up less expensive as our solar electricity is free and home grown food is cheaper. ![]() Living off the grid is WELL EXPENSIVE to set up (Heres more on choosing to live in yurt homes.) We chose a yurt house as it was inexpensive, easy and quick to put up, and beautiful too. Four months in we stuck up a big yurt with the help of many friends and moved into that for a more long term home. We hooked up a tap and had an outdoor kitchen. We popped up one little yurt and basically camped out for the summer. ![]() There was nothing on the farm apart from some fencing and a shed, and the natural environment- springs, trees, the river, meadows and native forest. One year ago we moved on to the land we bought with another family and began to set up a small solar powered home and farm. We had been living off the grid for around 15 months prior to last September, but it was on someone’s elses farm, sort of tucking into their sunshine powered dream, apprenticed to them in the ways of self sufficiency. We’ve just passed our living off the grid first year anniversary and I thought it would be a good plan to reflect on it all a bit. ![]()
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