To survive and thrive off the grid, people seem to assume that I somehow grew up this way.
But that wasn’t the case for me at all.
In fact, I grew up with parents who were pretty conservative. And we had a nice home with a superb quality of heating and air along with multiple other conveniences. So clearly, our passion for living surrounded by the woods was an intrinsic passion. And I entirely started to work towards living off the grid, I have to hand it to our parents as they were both legitimately supportive. It’s hard to think that that was 25 years ago, however even our parents have gotten accustomed to the fact that I live pretty much just like everybody else does. The only real difference is I live way out in the wilderness and have to produce our own electricity. But I can easily produce enough electricity with our solar array to even care about a small Heating plus Air Conditioning in our cottage. I have a fairly nice sized cottage that I built many years ago. Initially, all I had was a wood stove for heating. But with the evolution in HVAC technology for our solar array system, I was able to entirely have a ductless heat pump installed. With my wood stove, I do not need the ductless heat pump all that much for any sort of heating. But the ductless heat pump sure does come in handy during the summer time weeks. There are at least 10 or 12 weeks during the summer time where the fan just wasn’t splitting it. So having some air conditioning on hand sure does help myself and others get a nice evening’s sleep. And living and working out in the woods, there is a lot to do so a man needs a nice evening’s sleep.