Gridless

Yeah part of living way west of left field is supporting the system and the corporates as LITTLE as POSSIBLE.  Not only does it not feed their workhouse system that enslaves us but it also helps oneself survive with less money.  Less money needed-less work needed.
Well that is not entirely true-less working for OTHERS maybe.  More working for yourself.  Such as cutting firewood.  We do not have such a high heating bill, so we need less money for heat.  But we do have to take a day out in the bush to cut wood and later stack it.  We don't turn up the heat we start a fire and bring in the logs.

No one can cut off our heat though-unless we are lazy and don't bother to get the wood or make the fire....and it's exercise, fresh air, a sense of satisfaction.

I have been getting off the grid slowly but surely in many ways.  Some are as simple as hanging clothes rather than drying them in the dryer.  Using candles.  Heating with that wood we cut down ourselves.  Making rather than buying things when we can.  Collecting rainwater from the roof.

 Lately my thoughts have turned to food.  For two reasons.  The COST of food is skyrocketing, any else been noticing this?  And the second...much is garbage....like GMO garbage.  And meat full of antibiotics and hormones, raised in inhumane factory farm conditions.  Growing and hunting food will take us farther off the grid.

I will still buy from some farmers-the little guys at markets.  We have chickens coming in the spring.  We already fish a lot.  I forage what I can too.  We are considering a cow to use for meat when the time is right-grass fed only.  I have had that meat before it is !00% better tasting!!!!!
Now the next step is hunting, and planting a garden.  I have local heritage seeds for many vegetables, and want to concentrate on ones that keep well such a squash.
Hunting....hmmm well I'm not much of a killer.  But right now pigs and cows die for me to eat, and many don't have much of a life before that death...if I eat meat something is dying, whether it is a rabbit I snare or that shiny package of hamburger in the grocery store that used to be a cow.  Many folk, I suppose, try not to think of that.

So we will have better QUALITY food, save a ton of money and reduce our carbon footprint.  Get off society's hamster wheel even further.  Seems like a win/win/win to me!