NEW! OffGridStories.com site is live! — Win a Lifetime Membership to Off Grid Living & Survival Magazine (10 days only)

If you've ever wondered what it actually takes to live off the grid, not the polished YouTube version, but the real, frostbitten, generator-cranking, frozen-pipe-thawing, sunset-on-the-mountaintop version, you're in the right place.

A couple days ago I asked you some questions. (scroll for more)

You answered.

I listened.

I made changes.

Here is one of those BIG changes in how I do off grid content now.

Thanks guys. I appreciate all of you who have responded and given me some great advice. If I haven't replied to you yet personally, please be patient, I got way more response than I thought I would and you guys surprised me with some amazing kindness.

Thanks

Eric

Off Grid Stories is live: 👉 https://offgridstories.com

Real stories from real off-gridders, in their own words. No influencer fluff. No perfect-life filters. Just honest accounts of what worked, what failed, and what they'd do differently.

What's up now:

• Amy Jay — five years on a British Columbia mountain peak, growing 70% of her meat in a shipping container home

• Mike & his wife at Flood's Landing — 130 acres in Northern Ontario, building cabins from trees they milled themselves

• A welcome note from me on what this site is and where it's headed

More stories queued up. A community map (in progress) will let people browse by location for those who want to share where they are.

🏆 The Contest: 10 Memberships · 10 Stories · 10 Days

I'm giving away 10 Lifetime Memberships to Off Grid Living & Survival™ Magazine to the people who share the 10 best off-grid stories in the next 10 days.

The #1 story gets published in the next issue.

The rules are simple:

Hit Submit Your Story at https://offgridstories.com
Tell us your real off-grid story — practical, philosophical, hilarious, hard. No polish required.
The community votes. Top 10 win.

Van-lifers, skoolie converts, sailboat dwellers, solo women on mountaintops, family homesteaders, urban off-gridders, six-month newbies, twenty-year veterans, and the people who tried it and went back — we want all of you. Every story is the answer to someone else's question.

👉 Submit yours: https://offgridstories.com

Thanks for being part of this. None of it works without you.

Eric Wichman
Owner/Founder
Off Grid Living & Survival™

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