This might include: lighting, a well pump, ventilation, and refrigeration. Most frequently, a home power system is designed to handle the crucial tasks, but not the heaviest loads. For everything else it’s just like camping. For example, a small solar panel and miniature battery bank might power your satellite modem and laptop, providing a reliable link to the Internet. The most affordable (and low impact) systems provide only power for essential electronics. Depending on the budget and system, this can range from a minimal low-tech lifestyle, or be virtually invisible with all the conveniences. What Does it Take to Move Off-Grid?Ĭhoosing to live on an off-grid property means taking responsibility for energy production directly.
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Much of our modern lifestyle is dependent on power supplied invisibly through “the grid.” It’s hard to imagine the full impact of life without it. Perfect for a family, eco-tourism, or anything else you can imagine.Living off grid is one of the biggest choices you can make to achieve independence from our complex and fragile energy infrastructure.
Very well set up with excellent infrastructure in place, including its own high-speed Internet tower! The land is set down in a Valley, yet has excellent views in various areas perfect for building. The owner, who is a master gardener describes her 70-year-old Ecuadorian neighbor as ‘the best farmer she’s ever known’ – he farms by (and is happy to share is knowledge) traditional moon-cycle planting methods – producing a ridiculously large and healthy per square footage of crops. The majority of the Finca is flat, with many spots ideal for further construction.Ī safe, tight-knit community, the entire area has embraced organic agriculture.
There are over 75 varieties of heritage fruit trees, including an essentially extinct variety of Avocado and many nutritiously dense varieties of fruits and nuts, including wild growing vitamin rich fruit and medicinal plants!Įnjoy the constant sound of the river while stepping right into the off-grid, sustainable lifestyle you have dreamed of. Johnny Lovewisdom in the 1960’s, the land was renamed Shambala (the same Shambala Victor Kuvlinskas refers to in his 'Survival in the 21st Century') and currently functions as Neverland Farm – hosting permaculture courses, fostering troubled youth, serving the community and acting as a wonderfully magical space. Originally used by the indigenous Palta for spiritual rituals and still visited by them to this day, this land has a long history of sacred protection and care. This land has everything someone looking to live a sustainable, off grid, healthy lifestyle could ever want.Ħ.34 hectares (15.67 acres), located outside Quinara, approximately 25 minutes from Vilcabamba, with a pure river running the length of the land (with no flood risk), the perfect mix of views and privacy, pure drinking water, a small rustic house, hundreds of mature heritage fruit trees, a functioning micro hydro plant with sufficient production for even the largest home, irrigation system with sprinklers, goat corral, pig pens, honey bees, a few thousand coffee plants and SO much more. Maintained to the Rudolph Steiner permaculture method for over 20 years (with a 30 year permaculture plan in place) and NEVER sprayed with chemicals, this is one of the most special properties in Ecuador.
Looking for peace and tranquility? Pure water? Want to grow food? Live off grid in a supportive community?
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