There are people for whom the regular 9 to 5 lifestyle and the stress and competition became too much to endure that they went off the grid- away from all luxuries that they were accustomed to- with no internet, no hot running water, no futuristic instruments to make life easier- yet they are the happiest than almost half of the world population- Could you imagine living like that?
Garth Bowles
Garth Bowles and his dog live in this permanent teepee house he built in Joshua Tree, California, within a 258-hectare property he acquired in the desert, where he gets his water from underground wells and power from solar panels. He welcomes visitors with open arms and accepts donations for food. He also calls himself “The Make-Do-King”.
He tells photographer Rachel Bujalski,”Because if I don’t have something, I make-it-do.”
Pam Chapman : Living off the grid, this artist, mother and the director of her community’s organic market, Chapman goes on daily treks to her nearby bathhouse or compost toilet. Since she doesn’t own a refrigerator, she keeps all her meats and cheeses outside to keep them cool. To read at night, she uses a small light by her bed which is charged with stored electricity generated by her solar panels.
Peter
Peter, a German man who has been living there for the last 30 years. He came originally with his wife and children, who left decades ago.
Kate
Kate was hit by a car while she was bicycling and used the money from her settlement to buy this land near the village of Bayacas in Sierra Nevada, Spain. She has been building DIY living structures and living off the grid ever since.
Emma Orbach
Emma Orbach, a 59-year-old Oxford graduate who has been living in this isolated woodland for more than 13 years. Orbach keeps chickens and goats and grows an array of vegetables on a half-acre plot just outside her woodland.
“Vogue asked me if they could come and do a fashion shoot here once,” she tells Allen. “At first, I thought to myself ‘Why not? That could be fun to see’, so I told them they could come as long as they didn’t bring any motorized vehicles onto my land. However, after a few weeks of discussion I ended up having to decline my offer because they were insisting on bringing portaloos for the models. Portaloos!
Here! Can you imagine that?!”
By: Archa Dave
