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Beginnings, synchronicity and The Earth as an apple - scary stuff !

  Believe in synchonicty ?   off the grid living  ? Mmmmmnnnn ....... Life has a habit of whacking you on the nose when you don't pay attention....   Until quite recently, I was going along minding my own business and following my own path and decided it might be a great idea  to enrol in a horticultural course.  This is not a new thing.  We have grown our own food for decades.  I scuttled along to this course expecting to find out  "a wee bit more" about how to"do it better" when WHAM ! It was like when something hits you at a million miles an hour in a split second of time.  We were watching our tutor/teacher/life-pointer-in the-right directionist was slicing up an apple to illustrate how the earth has only 1/32nds worth of usable space to grow all the food for everyone on earth.    Google "The Earth as an Apple" to see what I mean   It got worse -  it turns out that we only have the equivalent of the  ski...

Off the grid and loving it without the agony

Decided you really do want to get off the grid ? Getting started and having fun preparing for living off the grid and loving it can be fun, innovative and exhilarating or it could be a nightmare straight from hell if you don't think it all through and get some kind of a handle on where you are headed.  Research off the grid living to find out the skills you need and how to get them.  Get your head around it all  Know that it will be a complete lifestyle change and you may need to rethink quite a few things in your life.  Plan ahead so you don't get bogged down in the technicalities and toss it all away as being too hard before you even get started.  Decide where you will begin - will you  crack on ahead, buy your plans, get your materials, set up your  new "escape" whilst still living on the grid or will you commute to and fro and try to set it all up. Have some funds in reserve - some "freedom money" to tide you over until you can get yoursel...