Took a lot of work, planning, but farm (mostly) goes off the grid

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We are going off the grid here at Long Meadow Farm: the financial grid, for one, the electric grid and the food...
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Leon Richard of Farmington, ME

Oct 19, 2008 12:58 AM

Must be living in the kitchen, with the rest of the place closed off, if they're heating it with 2 and 1/2 cord of wood. Isn't even going to go to February... good cold snap you'll burn a half cord easy.

Other than that is sounds great. Highly considering buying a chunk of dirt and trees, and building a nice little self-contained and independent "Alaska house". Generator and solar panels, gas lights and refrigerator, and a bucket of peat moss to poop in. Running water on feet from the well. Heat it with a little dinky wood stove.

Taxes? Heck, it won't be assessed at much more than a doghouse. My garage and shop, closer to the road, would be worth more.

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