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Living off the grid is illegal in Cape Coral, Florida, according to a court ruling Thursday. Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin ruled that the city’s codes allow Robin Speronis to live without utility power but she is still required to ...

Building a long-term food storage supply can be both a daunting and expensive task – but it does not have to be. As many off-the-grid, homesteading, and prepper families already know, canning produce and meat grown and raised on the ...

What if you chose to live off the grid – even ditching all utilities – only to learn that the local government has rules against such a lifestyle? Even worse, what if you wanted to live off the grid and ...

Living an off-the-grid or prepper lifestyle is not full of doom and gloom and the absence of typical family activities – quite to the contrary. It is easy, though, to get lulled into thinking everything is fine and will remain ...

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...

Editor’s note (March 2014): Hear our in-depth interview with Robin Speronis here. Hear her discuss the latest court ruling here.  A Florida widow has been ordered to leave her home by city officials because she discussed her off the grid lifestyle ...

Host Bill Heid talks to homesteader Rich Scheben, an off-the-gridder in rural Montana who says every middle class Americans should consider living a self-sufficient lifestyle – and how it’s much easier to do so than is commonly believed. Scheben’s story ...

Homeowners that generate their own electricity would have to pay more if a self-proclaimed “conservative” group gets its ways. A utility industry-backed group called the American Legislative Exchange Council or ALEC is pushing legislation designed to punish homeowners and small ...

Roscoe Bartlett, one of the longest serving Congressmen in history, has ditched his suit and tie and opted for an off grid existence. The former Maryland Republican Representative is now living somewhere in the vast wilderness and mountains of West ...

Are you prepped enough? Off The Grid News recently sat down with renowned survivalist Robert Henry to discuss preparedness tip and the myriad of issues going on in the United States which are causing great concern for off the grid, ...