Creating A Modern Day
Off-The-Grid Self-Reliant Lifestyle

The ultimate goal of this eBook is to share with you ideas and strategies that will help you successfully plan and create your own self-reliant, self-sustaining, off-the-grid homestead lifestyle. In this section you will find out what is really necessary for supporting life at its most fundamental level because, once you understand the basics, you then have a solid foundation upon which to build something that not only functionally works but also meets your needs: When you know what you need to do to create a comfortable self-reliant, self-sustaining, off-the-grid homestead lifestyle, you can then make a plan to create that life.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Age, we have been losing connection to what really sustains us, not only physically but also spiritually and emotionally. Today's generations grow up with no idea about how to care for themselves without public-availability of life-maintaining services ranging from reliable electricity, clean-water and sewage handling to comfortable housing, heating and food appearing without their effort on the super-market shelf. But now, using modern technology in creating your own version of a self-reliant, self-sustaining, off-the-grid homestead lifestyle helps to bring back that life-sustaining and health enhancing connection for you. This eBook introduces concepts and ideas to help you achieve this.

Life, even under any normal circumstances, is not without its own set of daily obstacles, setbacks and limitations but we learn, as we grow, how to dodge its punches and swing with its good stuff. In this eBook you will discover some of the different challenges that come up in living off-the-grid, disconnected, not only from the trappings of modern society but also from some of its taken-for-granted, easily available, on-tap services that you now have to provide for yourself. The eBook looks at some ideas and options for handling these kinds of situations and offers suggestions for how you might regain a more self-reliant, self-sustaining lifestyle for yourself through creating an off-the-grid Farmstead Homestead.

In this section of your eBook, you will discover information that will help you begin to put together all of the pieces that you will need to have, get, make or build, and what you will need to look for and why, in locating and creating your own off-the-grid, self-sustaining, self-reliant, Farmstead Homestead Lifestyle. As an Introduction to "How To Live Off The Grid Now™", here you will find details necessary to begin clarifying your vision of your own off-the-grid lifestyle and start designing your new home and its related support infrastructure, including deciding upon the type and scope of any food production that you want to pursue or exploring the alternatives if you would rather not get completely into farming but just want to grow enough food for your own needs.

The "Why..." really asks the question "Why do all this farming and gardening stuff?" that is actually the answer, not only to the question of "How do you become self-reliant and self-sustain yourself in your off-the-grid lifestyle?" but also to the very basic underlying question: "How do you pay for all this?" Unless you are blessed with an endless source of cash and capital, you are going to need not only to feed yourself and your family off-the-grid but also make an income to physically support yourself and your family off-the-grid: Money does not  grow on trees but it can come from growing and selling food. Whether you do the actual growing yourself or sub-contract out the food production on your land is ultimately up to you but you do need food and you will need a source of income: In becoming self- reliant, small-scale farming can serve you well in both cases.

Using section sub-titles, like What, How, Why, etc., is an artifact of my engineering training and while there is some license in how I've used them, they label each section in your eBook to give a quick idea of what is in that section. So, in "Method" you will find "How" items like the how-to of 1) Finding Your Piece Of Land, 2) Shelter: Buildings for you and your business, 3) Preparing for business,4) Expanding Business Operations, 5) Marketing and Sales. You need to draw from all of these sections in putting your plan together to manage successfully creating your own style of self-reliant, self-sustaining, off-the-grid homestead and lifestyle.

Now that you have all of the foundational stuff explained and have clarified your vision so that you now have a clear picture of what your self-reliant and self-sustaining off-the-grid farmstead homestead and lifestyle is going to look like and you have your family on-board with your plan, you need to decide just "Where" you are going to create your farmstead operations which decision will be influenced by the Type and Scope of food-production that you want to pursue. From all of this study and review, you will now be guided in defining how you will meet, and provide for, the specific must-haves of your new homestead. Your eBook lays out each of these areas with suggestions about how you might do all this.

And now the 64,000 Dollar question: Can you make any money doing this and how much will you have to invest in order to do this? In this last section of your eBook is a pro-forma example budget for an example Pastured Poultry farming operation. Numbers are offered here only as examples of possibilities; your results will certainly be quite different because they depend upon a number circumstantial variables - including variances in locational, operational and marketing conditions and costs - plus how well you actually manage to manage and grow your business operations. In the start-up phase, typically, your costs will be higher than those you face once you are established. No guarantee of results is, or can be given: Everyone's situation and circumstances will be respectively quite different.