Who is done off-grid and what is our mission?
Born in South Africa with a thirst for the outdoors and independence, I want to know the best ways to live off the grid and make it easier by using traditional methods and embracing technologies of the future that can help automate and make it easier to live a sustainable life.
WHAT ARE OUR GOALS?
Building a blue print for easy sustainable living.
The main goal for this blog and the main idea that inspires me the most to keep it going is to learn and pass on information and knowledge and hopefully improve on any of it if I can. I see my interests split into two different corridors, the one that deals with off-grid living, having a sustainable home, living off the land, and providing your own necessities. Then there’s the second which is enjoying the outdoors, the freedom, adventure, and exploration.
The latter is more for me and my enjoyment and is something that I hope to bring you guys along with in the future and share in one of my adventures. The first though is a lot more complicated and interesting for me, building the perfect off-grid, self-sustainable home, but embracing technology and automation. I see this as the most inspiring part of sustainability, with AI and the improvement in automation looking after and managing a self-sufficient home is only going to get easier. So stick around if you find this kind of stuff interesting and you want to see where it takes us!
WHO AM I?
My name is Ethan Gallagher. I’m from Durban, South Africa and spent much time growing up in my grandparents’ Boer War-era farmhouse, tucked away deep in the bush of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. During this time (and still now), I thought about how it would be the perfect place to be if there were a zombie apocalypse, civil war, or any type of anarchy going down. I would imagine using boreholes for water, farming animals, planting fields, setting up wind turbines and solar panels—everything. Thinking about those kinds of things still fascinates me to this day and has inspired me to create something similar for myself… minus any unhealthy social exclusion and general conspiracy theories.
My family also instilled in me an ability to work things out and fix them myself from my gran grandpa’s carpentry, upholstery, and seamstress business. The constant upkeep of an isolated 120+-year-old home has made DIY, plumbing, electrics, and gardening all become second nature to me. Obviously, there is a lot more I need to learn and I don’t think I’ll ever stop learning, but I really hope to become an authority on the subject of off-grid living one day and have a home that any off-grid enthusiast can copy or just be jealous over.