3/19/2023 0 Comments Off grid with doug and stacy![]() ![]() ![]() It’s just… Especially in the heat, I don’t think people realize the relief that you can get just by freeing your feet just from the heat. I’m barefoot probably 80 to 90 percent of the time you know. You learned from the older generation and now the younger generation is coming to you and I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that Doug is barefoot right now. I think it’s so interesting that you learned from the Amish originally which of course they live off the land but now you have young Amish people coming to you looking to see how you’re doing things. We had it and then they’re like, “You’re crazy if you think that’s going to work, keep you warm.” So then we switched and looked for wood burning cookstoves and so they started educating us. So then we were out talking to them and doing things and when we first started you know they had a stove like a potbelly stove. You know and we never went this way until we found out the Amish lived nearby us. People are like, “Oh are you just going to do that?” And there was a lot of… I was going to have a propane refrigerator I said I’m not moving off grid if we’re gonna do it unless I have certain things. Our journey wasn’t to be off grid, it really wasn’t. Just like our lives in general do so if somebody said well you have to do this you might go down that path but that wasn’t your journey. ![]() Well that makes sense to me because everyone’s journey to the simpler life takes a different path. It’s the trials and tribulations that we’ve had since we’ve been there that have made us better and stronger homesteaders and just has really worked well for us. But you know, as we were speaking about earlier is that you want to find out how the land lays and everything else so that would be one thing but for me we get asked that question quite a bit oddly enough and I don’t think I would want anyone to tell me anything because that’s what made us the people that we are right? That we’ve been able to persevere through everything. Yeah as soon as you sign the property maybe plant some trees. So maybe before you build your house off grid or whatever get the trees planted as soon as you have the land. We always say plant trees because that’s one thing we did not do.īecause it takes a long time for them to mature so that you can. So what do you know now that you wish you had known then about homesteading? If someone could give you a piece of advice 15 years ago what would it be? And I know you guys have a passion for teaching others and that’s really what your YouTube channel is all about. And so now I look back you know and we did this and it was just an easy kind of transition that we did this and I mean I couldn’t be happier. ![]() I did what my parents told me to do, you know go to school try to get a job in the corporate you know and do all that. Well and funny thing is, is when I was a little girl I always wanted to work with animals and do animal husbandry. Well I mean you guys did it together, so if it mirrors it that’s fine. And what did that look like at the time? We had no idea but it ended up looking like a log cabin in the Midwest where we grow our own food, raise our own animals, and live a much simpler life.Īll right. So we decided that we were going to sell everything and calm it down to a simpler life. We had businesses, we were on the go, the rat wheel was turning faster and faster and faster. That means 30 seconds for each of you and the clock starts now.īasically when we were in the city we were just sick and tired of being sick and tired. I would like a one minute recap of your journey to the simpler life. YouTubers with a huge following that moved from city life to country life. Today we’re fortunate to have OFF GRID with Doug and Stacy. This is Glenda Lehman Ervin with Lehman’s on the square in Kidron, Ohio. ![]()
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