I just love you. Your story brought tears to my eyes. When you said you repent for teaching your children about the beast system and apologized to them and now live your life as an example of repentance. How real is that. Thank you for this video. How powerful and touching to my soul.
Doug, you and Stacy are an inspiration for me! My husband is one of those complainers. I’m more like let’s do it! I hope someday the blinders will come off his eyes. He’s wanting a condo by the ocean, and I’m wanting what you guys have. 😟 He doesn’t listen to me. Everything you have said is so on point, and I have explained this to him. He does not care. 😢 Bless you both!
Amen Doug, Amen! I hit about 50 and I got home from a 2 month business trip to find a $130 water bill. I thought WTH!! How can I have a bill? I didn't use any water!? Found out I was getting charged a minimum fee whether I used any or not. So I looked at my life and started slowly getting rid of all this crap I was paying people for that I wasn't seeing any or very little benefit. Meanwhile my health was deteriorating from living in the rat race. Bought some property in the mountains with a well and septic, oh and propane too. Still on the electrical grid but other than my mortgage the only things I pay for now is electricity, cell phone and internet. I am now paying over $1000 less each month in bills and am slowly working on getting rid of all the rest. I have decided to start starving the beast, come out of Babylon, come out of her my people! I am becoming John Galt. Love your videos as I am learning a great deal of information from you, thank you!
Hello Doug and Stacy, I would love to live off grid. I need to live as cheaply and easy as possible. I know off grid it's easy. I wouldn"t mind that type of hard work. I've got a small garden put out this year. trying to grow somethings to help save a dollar here and there. I just want to live for myself as you say. No water no trash bills no electricity bills I just can't get out from under a rock at this timebut for now I"ll live through you guys and try to be happy.
Wow I feel so driven to this living. I have always felt closer to our creator and king out in the nature. You can feel him through everything!!! Let my people Free!!!
Would LOVE to live off grid, but realistically I'm in my 70's and single sooo that's not in the cards anymore. At time though I had a little place that I LOVED and planned on retiring there, but that wasn't in the cards either. However, I live simply, organized and streamlined within the system. I'm one of the few who lives off their pension without difficulty because of my conscious approach to lifestyle. Thanks so much for this channel - am living vicariously through Doug & Stacy.
Checkout the RU-vid channel.Incredible Tiny Homes in Tennessee. They have off-grid tiny homes for under 30k. And very reasonable lot rent, in very active communities where there are very sociable single ladies.
I love that your message hasn't changed and you still encourage people to stop wishing and start doing. Thank you both for always being a voice of faith, hope and helping us realize that it can be done and we can live a simplier life.
Thank you for your inspiration! My husband and I decided a few months ago that we want to buy a piece of land and start living more sustainably. This would include chickens, bees and growing our own produce to start. Later, we want to introduce alpacas and maybe some goats. We have zero experience and will need to keep working as we make this transition w/ the hope to "retire" early. We have 2 boys; 13 and 10. We feel this is the best time to do this. I plan to watch MANY of your videos!
By making the videos, you are helping your brother out. What an inspiring view on life. I'm one of those you speak about, watching RU-vid videos, dreaming about a simpler life. God bless you, and thank you for what you do!!!
Scott Lasher Everything He is saying is so true about retirement. In my opinion Doug, and his wife are living the Dream! They are also quite the team! 😉
Doug- so needed this today! Loved your message 6 years ago and love it all over again. Kitty sure was spry back then. Now she can enjoy her senior years in comfort and love ❤
Stumbled across this older video after watching your newer stuff for the last few months and it's awesome to see the progress your channel has made, not to mention your homestead. As a family that just took the plunge last month and sold our house/belongings, bought a yurt, and started a youtube channel. I can say that it's harder than it looks. Seeing you do it and do it WELL is so motivating. The quality of your video substance has been incomparable since day one. Thank you for the words of wisdom and encouragement friends. Peace
Beautifully said Doug. Something that so many need to hear. I am one of those who needs to see a mountain and the ocean... Thank you for your encouragement and keep teaching us.
I built my own home in Puerto Rico cash. I'm debt free waiting to move the end of this year. I now live in NJ but I can't stand living in cold weather. But I do know how to live off grid.
I still love the name Growing In Faith Farm!!! It's true. I believe we are all always "growing in faith." I'm a newly saved Christian. I was saved/baptized as a child but I didn't "really" understand what that meant till I was much older. I came back to Christ (though I never left completely but I wasn't truly committed either honestly) a couple of years ago. Though I still have A LOT to learn and am not nearly as well versed in the Bible as some...I AM growing in faith. I'm so thankful for all my blessings and pray God will continue to guide me daily. Thanks so much for sharing. God Bless you both always! 💕✝️💕 Lisa
Just figured out how to go from oldest to newest. Love the video's. We're retired and live on top of our little mountain here in Tennessee. Grow some of our own food, debt free, still on public utilities, but getting more into doing our own thing as time goes. Love the freedom. Never stop setting the example..
Thanks so much for all the uplifting words. What you're talking about today is exactly how I've decided to move forward in "living off grid" where I am. We have a 40 acre farm in Georgia and have been here 26 years living the rat race. We have all this beauty around us every day and have only used our farm as a daily refuge. Now we are retired and we've begun to see the possibilities here. Our first effort to un-plug is to plant a small vegetable garden (done), start lacto fermenting some food (doing daily), and stop using as many electrical items as we can. We are working daily on these 3 things for now. It feels so good just to do SOMETHING toward sustainable living. Thanks so much to you and Stacy for your examples. They've been inspiring. All the best to you both!
You guys have definitely kicked my in the butt. I have always wanted to be more self-sufficient but never took it seriously. I'm now doing what I wish I had done many years ago. Thanks you for the advice and the serious gut check! Keep the videos coming because they really motivate me to keep pushing forward.
Great video, Doug. I've always wanted my homestead and to be self sufficient but have fallen into the rut of just reading and watching RU-vid videos without actually doing anything.
Wow...seeing this in 2022, you really foresaw the future and got out of the system at the right time...and now you're set and God has blessed you through all the hard work you did to create your beautiful homestead.. You are very, very wise!!! True, when people retire, they do die a year or two after they retire. They live to work, but you work to live...and the work you do is very rewarding.
Absolutely true. We are retired, but live "in town" where we own a business. But it's very "old school" :) and we're working on living simple, healthy, inexpensive, and Godly lives. And working on being off-grid "ready"; our needs aren't much so our utilities aren't expensive, but the more simply we live the less we have to pay for, and want to be where we would have no problem without them. Thanks for the help in doing all this!
Thank you so much for this!It's December 25 2017,and i am so inspired by this message from you. Been watching you and Stacy for6months and planning to use money from house sale too fund my homestead. put money down on land in South Missouri and hope to spend next December in my own little cabin. God Bless you guys
I think what he may mean is you need to pay off your debt to have nothing hanging over your head from on-grid. Thhhere needs to be cash available for that property tax, etc., when off grid. And maybe animals, feed, a water system, the vet, etc. If the old bills aren't dealt with, before going off grid, there will be no way to get started. If the old life's bills are still hanging around, the new life cannot get started. Can't make everything from scratch, until you've actually been there to learn how, and what will work best for you and your particular land, shelter, water, food, weather, animals, transportation, and then improvements, as needed, I would assume. Can't do that with old bills. Got to start fresh, and with money in your pocket, nowadays. Just reality. ❤🙏🏻
I told my 25 yr old son not too long ago, something was coming, I didn't know what but I said, "Something is going to happen, things simply can't go on like this much longer , " And here we are in the middle of a Global pandemic!! Ironic that I am watching this old video tonight !! Much Love to you guys !
I loved your rant, I am saving to buy some land and scavenging useful items to build a small house and trying to learn what I can to make it a success. There are so many things I need to learn. I appreciate that you and your wife share wisdom and information.
Hi Doug. Brother,..well said. You know there once was a time when families gathered around the dinner table to enjoy a good meal, and good conversation. Now,..it seems that just isn't heard of anymore. I truly believe the exact same way. My wife and I along with our two boys have started our journey to living off grid. It is a free life, we're almost there and I can say none of us would even dream of going back. God bless you and yours.
I would love to live off grid and to be a part of the earth and nature. I have not found a partner to do it with. I like thunderstorms and the wind and breeze and watching the snow fall from in a candle lit cabin!
I came back and watched this again after watching your most current video Building Mom's Log Cabin. I love kitty cats. The heart on your kitty is so cool!! God Bless! Carmen
These early videos are such a different tone. I get it though. The transition has to be a little unsettling but once you are in it then your mind set gets back right. Good stuff brother.
Thank you for sharing! Subscribed. Just wanted to comment about our experience with many people... There are a lot of people that believe it is best for you to live like you guys do (and us soon as well), because we as humans are just not meant/created to be living cooped up in a city, or even a small town. There are also many people that believe that "when hard times come" they need to "flee" from the cities... But, it is just not always done with the "snap of your fingers". I am making decent money, and we have owned our property for maybe ten years...but we are still not living on it yet. Just mentioning this because if you believe... in any way... that you belong closer to the nature and even off-grid (like we feel we do)...go for it! Or, at least start preparing for it...
I have been watching your videos for about a year, maybe less. In that time I have come to respect you for all you have accomplished and for all the knowledge you have freely shared . Now after watching this video which is now my favorite, my respect for you is even greater. God bless you and stacy.
Nothing better than hearing an honest man talk, expressing his views and experiences, sharing his life with others. Thanks for taking the time to post this. Got the land paid for :) Saving for the foundation, cabin, well and septic, then separating from the system!!
I hear what your saying about working all your life and come retirement you are either medically disabled, dead or caring for an ill loved one. As a former medic i cant tell you how many times I have seen this. People find and buy there dream home in a gorgeous country setting only to pass away or become ill and now they have to move to the city instead of enjoying there retirement. We really have it backwards today. There are no golden years for most. Live your life now and to the fullest!!! The other thing is you never know how long you have so make every day count. Great inspirational video!!
We sold everything as well. Took 5 years of planning but cash straight up rules. We bought in a very isolated forest, it used to be a hunt cabin. I have 18 acres bought and paid for. Been here for 4 years now. Still loving it. I highly recommend it. I have fish in my pond food growing in my garden I can and learned alot. Wow it's amazing. Unplug is the way
I live in a small home on a small lot in an inner ring suburb and i love it. i lived in the tony 'burbs and i lived off grid in bfe. so i have been around the block so to speak in where i lived. i like living close to work, close to the food store, close to good quality medical care. i am getting older and i do not want to spend the few years i have left driving in a car to get someplace. what amuses me is that a lot of off grid prepper people still want the finer things in life. you need a house, a well, a few candles, and a warm house in the wintertime and you are good to go. the heck with all the of the stuff and don't fret so much over the "necessities" if you want a real off grid life experience.
I raised my kids in Babylon too. Now my Hebrew lifestyle I just try to live in obedience so they can see my walk is genuine. I am debt free and live in a camper waiting for the next step in my journey owning land. I am gardening here at my site but know my Father will guide me each step of the way. You guys are an inspiration.
I have been watching your videos for some time now. I have enjoyed them and marveled at what you have done in the time you have been 'on the homestead' . I look forward to each new video about your 'Mom's House'. I have been retired for 5 years now and I don't think I will be getting myself 'planted' right away....LOL.... but ya never know
I new to this thinking and trying to teach myself all I can. I'm glad I found your channel. I'm really done waiting on things to get better with this country. The way your living is my dream.
i have always dreamed of living off the grid but my husband thinks it's crazy and he will not do it.. but i did buy an out door wood burning furnace because our electric and heating bills were $800 to $1200 a month and a half through the winter, and i grow a big garden every year can, and sew, and crochet and everything is crazy to him so i envy you guys and love what you do and stand for
I went back and found this video you mentioned, so happy for your journey and can’t wait to get off on my journey in which we have just begun. Starting a small farm so I know what we are eating.
we have been able to purchase 10 acres of beautiful mountain land for back taxes. Sometimes you can reach your goal if you get really creative. We don't have a lot of money, but we are researching, and we aren't afraid of hard work. We know that Abba' is leading us. We depend on Him. I get so much encouragement from your videos. Thank-you for the effort to put them out. Blessings to you.
Thank You so much for this video. Great encouragement piece, you have no idea. This concept has been brewing/welling up with inside me over the past few years. I'm so close to ready. We home school our 5 children, have 23 chickens, two turkeys, 4 raised garden beds, and a strawberry patch on 1 acre 20 minutes north of Kansas City. We are wanting to move much further away on more land with less "stuff" and untied to the "system". I WANT AWAY FROM THE JOB I HATE AND THE DREADED CUBICLE.
I love you man! What a great rant. I moved from the rat race in Ontario Canada. i was sad and depressed. i got sick of it all sold my home bought a small cottage property in New Brunswick Canada for mere nothing. Now i am for the most part free... I have no mortgage no rent no bills and i do what i want when i want. I cant express enough how real and possible this life is when you shed the world of consumption. i am 34 years old and i have much of life to enjoy. i am glad i listened to wisdom and experience of people like you. people who saved me from the drudgery of consumerism and poor mental ideology. god bless you and thanks for such a great inspiration.
I just you guys videos. Thank you I have been wanting to go off grid for a long time. I am a single mom and this is the video I needed. I am going to push for it.
My husband‘s motto was live life to the fullest. Glad he did! He died three months after his 59th birthday from a PE. Just nine months and five days before retirement. There are no guarantees in life.
Amen ! And to add to your speaking, their are people who have never left the city or the state they were born in. I have always respected others they challenge themselves like you and your family have. I never have or ever will wasted my life envying others lives. I am not a city troll. I was born in the country and can live off the grid and sustain myself long term. I don't have any land purchased but that alone is not going to hinder my efforts to live long term in the wilderness while moving around. You spoke and feel no different than I. I lived for 2 years at 15 on my own wilderness shopping and did fine. Never stop wearing your colors of belief, I don't and know first hand about sacrafices and always remember friend ** I See The World As The World Sees Itself **
Thanks for making this video and thanks for speaking in such a manner that can really be heard,I have two kids that I don't want to lead a stray...this one video really opened my eyes. Thank you
Thanks Doug and Stacey. Been watching your videos for a while now. Just bought 21 acres in the mountains. Sold the house to my daughter. Selling the business. I have been busting my rear for 37 years driving in traffic doing equipment repairs. After buying the land I still had second thoughts but after about five miles of driving in traffic I know its the right thing too do. Thanks for the encouragement to do what I have always wanted to do.
wise! i worked 40 years and what he is saying is so true.I drove in California it ( the insane traffic) got worse each year. Now am retired burned out! I use to be into plants, hydrogardening, but now the dream is dead. Wish i could have found someone who wanted a simple lifestyle. i fear I will die here in this miserable HOUSE IN THIS city, the worse part, NO ONE WILL CARE OR EVEN KNOW.
Just fine a way. Land out of town is cheaper. Find something already done. We had several older couples go back to town for health reasons. They have already done the hard work.
I saw a video theres a young man in Quebec who lives this way hes very happy he wrote a few books and he likes living the way they did in the 19 century he even wears the same clothes but he laughs all the time and he is so happy. This is the way God wants humans to live its natural and healthy. The dam politicians are ripping everybody off.Thanx so much for this video.
So real and authentic! Thank you so much for this! I‘m 22yrs old and my partner and I are planning to create an off grid lifestyle. You guys are such an inspiration, thank you so much. Much love 😊🌻
I really liked this rant, slowly well in the very early 2000s we paid off our home and vehicle and have been debt free, praise God for that! and we had many horses, goats, chickens, ducks, but I broke my back 3x over rt knee replacement and left ankle broke, then son fell out of climbing tree stand and almost died, hubby had a knee replacement too, and just recently amputated his right part of his pinky finger a week ago! But today and all the stuff that I have started saving and trading like seeds clothing some animals etc. Even though we have no income except a small disability for me...I know God supplies all my needs according to his riches in glory...so I appreciate this video and almost off grid but if something happened we would adapt , and overcome! ty again 💕 😇 ☮ Kellie p-b 💕
Great inspiring video. I'm new to your channel and on a Doug and Stacy marathon. We're 54 and 53 and were "leaping". Getting ready to sell our suburb home and head to our 20 acres. Amazing how much "stuff" we have that's really nonsense. I love your cabin. We plan to start in an rv and transition to a cabin. Thanks for sharing.
This so spoke to my heart, we live in the suburds in South Australia connected to the grid and I dream about living off grid the wanting to be free of paying large power bills etc we often think that we need to move to live a more simple life. But watching this has shown me live today what changes can I make today where I am living bringing closer to living the dream. Thank you this made so much sense
I’ve lived off grid as a child. I lived that way close to 7 years. Had to was 25” of hair in buckets and old school spit baths. I was driving at age 10 and backing up trailers with water barrels to hall in water to our fourth acres. I’d have to say galling water was the craziest part. But at such a young age I’d say the hardest part for me was taking out the poo buckets and carrying buckets and buckets of water for every task. I also used a wash board to do the laundry and had to hand wring. My mom was very ill when I was growing up so I had a lot on my shoulders. After living that way I long for a similar life again but I know what things I’d like and not like any more. I agree with you 100%.
ALOT of people who want this kind of lifestyle, DONT own their house, and DONT have much money to invest in such a life as you and Stacy have,I agree with what you say tho, Ya just got to hunker down and get started,Ya don't have to do it all at once, just lean into it.Best time, I THINK, to start would be in the late spring where you don't need to be paying a heating bill. You can suffer a hot summer, WAY better than you can suffer a cold Feb.START BUYING THE THINGS YOU NEED N O W, IF YOUR AFRAID, OR CANT AFFORD TO MOVE, OR CANT FIND WHAT YOU WANT FOR A HOMESTEAD. Stay in your warm cocoon if you want to, BUT be buying the things you will need to have WHEN you do finally get off your a$$ and get with it.IF you don't have the overalls to go for it, Your likely not going to make it out here anyway. Doug makes it sound simple, and after your over the hump, as it is, getting past the learning curve, IT DOES GET EASIER.Yes Doug, Ive known people just like that, Retired, and didn't do anything else with their lives till they went into a nursing home and died.IF you cant see leaving your safe cocoon, turn your back yard into a garden. Get some chickens, some rabbits, and get the feel for taking care of them. ACCEPT SOME RESPONSIBILITY for something else besides yourselves. IF you don't have a yard, grow in flower boxes, pots, ect.JUST do SOMETHING, if your thinking about it at all, to start to ease yourself into a world like Dougs and mine, No ones gonna do it for you. Likely, no ones gonna help you. Its on YOU.
Great video :) I'm just about to graduate college in a few months and i'm often thinking about a future in off gridding here in Canada. I've been reading about Off gridding for some time now and its really great to see just how diverse this community can be whether its from not being on the electrical grid in the city or cutting the cords all together in sticks. Sustainable is worth it :) Thanks for the extra inspiration.
Just found your channel and subbed. I have a ton of respect for what you did and what you said in your video. I'm developing a small cabin on some land I bought last year. I still have a house and one foot in the system but I'm working toward getting out of it altogether. The journey that I started a couple years ago has changed my thinking drastically. More importantly, it is changing my actions. I look forward to seeing more from you in upcoming videos.
wow just found your videos when I was searching "living by candle light" lol! love your candid way of telling it like it is! I was in the Army for 9 years and finally got out. Now Im leaving my home in NYC and moving to Colorado Sept 1st to start my journey of simple living and higher thinking!! so excited! I hope watching videos from your channel can help me learn more of how to live off grid. thank you!!
Doug and Stacy..ya'll are fanominal people!! Such an inspiration to soo many others! Thank you for your videos, and sharing your lives on the world wide web. :>). Scary at times I'm sure but in the True Kingdom..you'll reep many rewards, so don't give up. You Know "whose" you are and that's a lot more than some have these days. We love your information as well as you both, and are keeping ya'll in our prayers. Blessings and Shalom!
I wish I could live off grid. I don't make much money but our home is movable and paid for. We are waiting to find a piece of land in our area that we can afford. I have all of the skills an know how. We already have chickens, ducks and a large garden. We are 60% off the grid and self reliant. I love your video's ! The advice even helps around our place. Keep up the good work !
Nice rant, Doug - I 100% agree! I would like to remind everyone "you don't even need a cabin and 10+ acres to get started. Start now at the home you are in - start tomorrow. Start living healthy, eating healthy, cooking healthy, thinking healthy. Start growing sprouts, and micro greens - no land needed, they are cheep and they can be grown in the winter or summer indoors or outdoors, rain or shine, even in an RV. Start learning about herbs and treating yourself medically "specifically preventing sickness so you don't get sick". Get debt-free ASAP "you don't need all that stuff". Ok, sorry for the rant... I hope many more people will unplug from the Matrix/System and live a healthier and happier life as Doug and Stacy have, and I and my better half have in our own way. ~I find myself asking "Why didn't I do this 40 years ago"?
This is just the motivation I needed to keep me going, well on my (our) way to being able to afford our own land, after that its goodbye 5-6 work days! I'll probably have to do 4day on 3 day off, 4 days off 3days on! Works much better for me while also establishing a house on the land😁
As soon as the market crash and the housing go back down we will by a house off grid that’s our dream we will do it. Train up a r child in the way he or she will go and when they are old they shall not depart from it. My husband is good at building so when we go off grid we will build our house from ground up. I want a log house. By the grace of God we will do it. God bless you guys.
You're right as soon as someone stops they go down hill fast. The saying in nursing fields is if you don't use it you lose it. My grate Grandma, who couldn't see hardly gardened until she was in her 90's and lived to be in her hundreds. my grandma was employed until she died at I think 94. My other grandma lived to be 101 and was active as she was able to be. Homesteading will keep you active for sure.
Doug I'm 27 years old and absolutely hate the system. I don't want no part of it anymore. the older I get by the second the more and more I want a cabin with a nice well and I just want to be left alone. not antisocial but I just feel like in a way that I was born in the wrong time. some of the greatest memories I have is staying with my grandparents before they had heating and cooling and them using the fire place and an old coal heater. I don't even own a cell phone. I have my laptop and internet. people can call me crazy if they want too but living simple is the best way to live. Why should I work a stupid cash register job making somebody else rich and being disrespected all the time when I could live simply and work a farm like I did when I was a boy and be satisfied. materialism aggravates me all the time too because I have bought stuff and before I got it in the mail I was already tired of it. One day....
