Living Off Grid, Grass Roof House, Being Self Sufficient Depending On The Land For Survival.

You would do what you had to do with your family. To be safe, well fed, sheltered, warm, clothed. I got a call from a buyer wanting land from Cape May Courthouse NJ last month right on top of the same day another Florida buyer who said everyone is hoarding ammo and buying $800 AR 15 rifles. Asked each why and got the same answer from both. They said in the expensive cities there is a sense money is running out and the cost of living is out of sight, can not continue and when it crashes, they want to know where they are going. Have a gun to out of town, to get where they need to head. In the 1980's I saw more affectionately called Granolas, Hippies, back to the nature folks who many discounted as flower children with Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young tunes being hummed, Woodstock save the world thinking. But it is a life choice on how to live, and like the Amish, some degree of simpler, honest, basic living may be what is missing in many folks life who are spending themselves in to a bottomless hole looking for what is missing. And what they need can not be bought as they get dependent on goods and services they may not be able to afford.

Another back to the land video approach. Things to consider. Triumphs and set backs. It is not all easy and requires someone hard working, not lazy. Going without to gain more.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRpMAt7Rbv8 

Or maybe you need a little in the woods, on a Maine river for vacations of heating with wood, cooking on an antique stove, heading to the outhouse with newest copy of Mother Earth News but only salt and peppered in your life. Got that itch covered too. Watch below. Hop in the jeep.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CpLSDQu71w           

Barbara... run in to the same with buyers asking about camping properties. Ask them politely what their idea of camping is. Full blown home on the water with all the creature comforts, central air and direct tv or camping under the stars, pitching a tent. Cooking on a fire.

Kristen... we shake it easy in Maine on the spending, but big on outdoors, clean natural resources, friendlier but way way fewer people. Tons of elbow room.

Roy... not that many moons ago, there was no other way. Simple living, pass the baked beans and another piece of that home made bread while I put another log on the fire. Got to get out to the barn to throw down some hay, do the nightly graining, watering and hit the sack. Big day tomorrow on the back forty and teaming the horses if it does not rain otherwise inside fixing that wagon wheel, repairing the corn planter I'll need next week as seasons change and time to get the seeds in the ground. Think about the White House when Washington was there, no marble showers, central heating and all those fireplaces used to heat the "People's House". Spread the word about Maine off grid homestead, living off the land. 

Simple is less complicated, less expensive and just more real, natural. Less store bought expensive and artificial.