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    Hi y’all, I’m Jess (41/female) from Southern California. I run a small business consulting firm and an independent record label. I’m a designer, front end web developer, and UX specialist. My college education focused on microbiology, horticulture, and botany.

    I’m an experienced camper, but I’ve only really seriously roughed it when I was a kid on my yearly pack-out trips to the CO mountains with my parents. I’ve never been in any true wilderness survival situation. My primary interest is in homesteading, but obviously a lot of this knowledge overlaps.

    I’ve overwhelmingly lived in very urban environments around the world, and my outdoor and day-to-day lives have always felt very separate. My immediate goal is to merge the two. My husband and I are saving for land, where we want to build off grid. We’re downsizing dramatically at the moment, and I’m looking to build a more formidable skill set until we get to our forever home.

    I have extensive plant knowledge, from identification, foraging, gardening, cooking, to preservation. I’m pretty good at building, and a have a lot of little skills that aren’t well developed - sewing, archery, carving, etc. My husband is a carpenter and artist. I value handmade, self-sufficient, old-ways, new tech, creative, elegance-in-simplicity, and high efficiency.

    Welp, I feel like I just barfed my whole life out here in this intro. I think I covered all the pertinent points! I look forward to learning from y’all and hope I have something to offer, as well. Happy new year!


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    At 41 was when I decided that living on the grid beat the heck out of off it. We weren't really off the grid but we could see it from where we were. There's a lot to be said for running water and flush toilets, not to mention electricity on demand, cell phones, microwave popcorn, computers, TV, etc....

    But, having the know how is certainly a good idea.

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    Hidy ho, from an ex-SoCal inhabitant (not native).

    You might enjoy these YouTubers (I do): North Country Off Grid https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCjx...bFGwg/featured
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    Quote Originally Posted by Alan R McDaniel Jr View Post
    There's a lot to be said for running water and flush toilets, not to mention electricity on demand
    No doubt! We’ll probably have a combination of off-grid and city utilities, and we’ll ease into full off-grid living. A lot of the places we’re looking at here require connection to city even if you don’t use it.



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    Quote Originally Posted by JohnLeePettimore View Post
    Hidy ho, from an ex-SoCal inhabitant (not native).

    You might enjoy these YouTubers (I do): North Country
    Oh nice, thank you!


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    Quote Originally Posted by ladyjestes View Post
    No doubt! We’ll probably have a combination of off-grid and city utilities, and we’ll ease into full off-grid living. A lot of the places we’re looking at here require connection to city even if you don’t use it.



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    Welcome. I suggest if you and your husband can swing it, you get out of California. For self reliant people who believe in their Constitutional Rights and freedom, California is not the place to be ... and it is going to get worse.

    I lived in Los Angeles for 36 years and my wife was born there so I know what the State has become and what the suffocating restrictions are there.

    Just a suggestion.

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    - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790),U.S. statesman, scientist, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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