Off-Grid Living: Dreams vs Reality - Your Experiences?
Curious to know how your off-grid reality matches up with what you'd pictured. Are there unexpected challenges you've faced, or any happy surprises along the way? Share some insight folks!
Biting off more than I could chew in the beginning, that's for sure. Thought growing my own food would be a piece of cake, but it took a few seasons to understand the soil and climate out here. Pleasant surprise was how quickly nature becomes your best teacher. You learn to observe and adapt, kind of like gardening Sherlock Holmes. How about you guys, what
Curious to know how your off-grid reality matches up with what you'd pictured. Are there unexpected challenges you've faced, or any happy surprises along the way? Share some insight folks!
Oh, couldn't agree more with both of you! Especially your point, BlueSkyWanderer, about the stark difference between the dream and the reality of off-grid living. Going off-grid, I imagined my days filled with tending to my garden, peacefully immersed in the world of botany, without the worry
