Off Grid Homesteading in Wales Takes Simple Living all the Way 

Totally agree with you.

Absolute bloody nonsense it is the polar opposite of what needs to be done, With the exception of respect for livestock, and the greens have little of that!

They are totally apart from the surrounding community, not a part of it.

Completely 'Agree' 🙋💜

Sadly the human race had this but wanted more. Look at us now 😥

So, what are you going to do?

The uneasiness is the heart searching for the creator. Isaiah 49:23 Deuteronomy 4:29. Luke 11:9-10. Jeremiah 29:13

@@nanaobx Thank you. I believe you are correct.

read the quote & thought the following comment would say something very different lol

Please don't move to Wales

@carlaportocarrero64 I would love to meet Emma and chat with her, I am living in Pembrokeshire

I feel quite the same way :( My plan now is to get my house in the town ready to sell and with the proceeds buy some land and to do what these people have. We can do it :)

@C Bee L.O.L. right. We had a fellow here with similar ideas, he purchased land 700 K'ms from the city, established his home and lives off the grid. The local council sent him a bill for his rates, he blew up. The local council does not provide him with anything, he provide his own water, sewerage,rubbish disposal, electricity. So he's no drain on the council. It went to court, and he was stuck with his share of building and maintaining the road that provides access to his home.No matter what you do, one way, or another, they will screw you.

What hell hole do you live in?

Go live in Spain or Italy then.

amen

ONe man's dream..........

you played by the wrong rules

Where? Because if it's England lol they really don't care about that sort of thing , they are all about money. It seems only Scotland, Wales and Ireland are more supportive. It's truly sad

Is this wales or somewhere ?

@@Onlinesully yes, Wales.

judyofthewoods it's a very nice site. Are you also homesteading or living in a similar way ?

@@judyofthewoods Well, Wales is definitely a good place to start looking for things that are bigger on the inside ;)

Well, please do forward my thanks to them for sharing with the world. Their home is very inspiring 😊

I can't afford to buy anything in England but saving towards buying land somewhere cheap and sunny abroad. However, apparently there's free land scattered about England that you can claim but you have to make sure it's unregistered and no owner and that's the bit I'm clueless about lol but maybe that's something you could look into for Wales. If they have such a thing. Good luck with your plans

@@butterflywarrior9204 yeah, I’m aware of that but the trouble is you have to 7 years Incase someone comes forward as the rightful owner if I understand it right which I can’t do with a young family.

@@TheNinja691 also looking to buy land Pembrokeshire way, house is going up tomorrow. Where you looking pal 👀 🤔

@@dk6317 mid to west wales but I’m not ruling out the north or south, so basically anywhere in wales. 😄

@@TheNinja691 how you getting on with your search? I've been out driving about today asking a couple farmers would they sell any land 🤣🤣 these farmers got too much

An earth mother. Help.

Ahhh how beautiful the sentiment!😇🤗 Love and LIGHT 💛💚💖💙💜❤🏌️‍♀️🌈💎

Mother earth? New Age piffle

All learnable, fortunately! Start soon!

Janina Fisher Hi Are you also living on a homestead or a farm ?

@@Onlinesully Yes. Grew up and lived much of my life in cities. You learn, one step at a time. It is so much fun to learn, and a lot of people are happy to share their knowledge - and that was before all these people teaching on RU-vid!

Janina Fisher What part of the world Janina? And have you been doing it many years ?

It's how everyone should live, nothing ridiculous about it.. what's ridiculous is working dead end jobs we hate to pay for crappy little flats piled on top of each other

@@cultofgaia9625yes. It’s ridiculous to me that so many just blindly accept that life.

Then just don’t listen to your parents, live as you wish and as you can :) Whatever makes you happy, as nobody will live a life instead of you :)

Hello Jenny

It's worse to follow the crowd!!!

And she also said that it was a bad feeling😅

You cannot se me laughing then!!!

They don’t have planning permission for all that. It’s in Pembrokeshire where there’s allowances for these things.

That sounds so very lovely, which part of the country? (Assuming it's in UK)

We’re in northern Alberta in Canada. It’s mostly wilderness and we’re in heaven. Be well 🔆

And are you looking for more people to live there with a tiny home? Lots for rent? I am in the Midwest and have been looking for a very long time.

What's the budget needed to do this?

@@AaronLyons ​ It varies by state, and is a fairly long answer, but here we go. For a home mortgage where we live in the Midwest, closing costs are about 2-3% down on the homes sale value (around $2600 or so and that could even be negotiated to have the sellers pay some or all of closing if needed) and then another 2-3% down for the home itself (we had to save about $6k to $7k set aside in total for our house costing $164k before sales tax, leading to a total of $167k after taxes tied into our mortgage). We also do have our insurance built into an escorow account. Plus a home inspection (about $40-$100 will need to be put in place before purchase. Your realtor (I do suggest using one with good reviews and experience) will go over all of this with you as well as which bank or credit union your mortgage is approved. Our bills are always budgeted to the highest bill ever paid for each bill are they are laid out as follows. Mortgage $1216.89 Apr. P Internet $23 Mar P Insurance $63 Mar car+home Electric $200 Mar P Life Ins Aaron $33 Mar. P Life Ins Ashlie $24 Mar P Water $164.15 Mar. P Car Payment $166 ($7000 total: 6 payments made) Apr P Total cost of our monthly bills being: $1890.04 or $945.02 Bi-weekly. excluding other costs ie. food, vehicle fuel, maintenance) Expect to budget another $100 monthly for those and "unexpected" costs, which is where having a bank layout is just as important and ours goes as follows. We have 5 Checking accounts for 5 specific reasons. Checking 1: Weekly Spending Checking 2: Monthly Bills Checking 3: Emergency Fund Checking 4: Investment Transfers Checking 5: Credit Card Fund Bills and transfers can take up to 5 business days in order to transact and setting accounts up this way ensures no overspending and the credit card is only used for cash back. We never pay interest because once the card is swiped, we transfer the funds used on the card from our weekly spending account to our credit card fund and and we never spend more than we have. My wife and I both work (myself being fulltime "$17 per hr at time of purchase" and her being part time "$12 per hr at time of purchase" so we can both watch our son and still see each other while paying the bills) in order to pull this off and have a paycheck come in once weekly, currently. We do not drink alcohol, smoke, or party in any way and we are very frugal on spending. We do have an outing about once a month or so in order to go out to eat, or do something fun currently and that can increase in the future when we are less reliant on grocery stores for food, and our investments grow etc. We do not trust anyone to watch our son, so the life insurance policies you see (of $1M each at time of death) and the way this is orchestrated is really our only option at the moment. At time of death, it will be split between assets of index funds in the stock market and lived on 4% of the total (about $40k annually) will cover the bills forever) How we save for retirement is through my employers (401k with a match of $0.50 for ever $1 we throw in, up to 15% per paycheck). We are aiming for growing all of our food this year (savings of about $200 weekly) and saving for solar panels to be placed on our home as well as a wood burning stove. (Which will raise our home owners insurance slightly but worth it). To purchase land in itself, in most cases, it will need to be paid for in cash (no mortgage). To note: all of this is the base/ground work of home operation and ownership. Each home will vary due to up front and operational cost. I realize this post is very long, but I do hope it answers some questions to home ownership that you may have had.

@@valerieann2751 Thank you for asking and we are not currently looking for lots to rent as that too is a complicated answer. We live in a suburban area of our township and own 1 acre of property, so with building a tiny home here, plus food growth, etc. a tiny home, due to building codes, etc. would not work. If it were more rural, (about 10 min from our city) we may have gotten more away with it. We were looking in that direction as well, but placing land under a mortgage is not going to happen. In order to go that direction, the property would need to be paid for in cash, or a personal loan would need to be put into place and those come with different protections and interest rates than that of a standard home mortgage.

@@thedoubleboiler6971 Thanks so much for typing all that. I'm amazed you got a house with land big enough to grow on for just 167k. Where I live (Ireland) the prices are way more expensive

And see how the poop is aging. I have used horse and sheep composted manure but using human waste is disgusting.

Hello Andrea

Try yoga and various positive energy plants,green vegetation snake plants,bamboo,lavender plants peace and positive energy to you

It's the same here regarding over the top planning permission and regulations, you just gotta play the game and hope you don't get caught.

What state do you live in? The US has extremely varied local laws regarding building allowances. There are many states that are more accepting of off grid living. From everything I've seen of Wales/UK they have just as many laws as we do.

the rules and regulations in the uk are WORSE than in the us. only wales has a scheme for sustainable living and people have to fight local government to get the permission, the land is expensive and a business has to be run from it and every year the productivity and ALL money in and out both personal and business are audited to check targets were reached. its a big hassle basically and all these videos only show the good side of it.

Hello hope your having a good time today

Hello Jennifer

Hello Bonnie

I am totally with you on that Bonnie.

@@christinegorton8476 How are you doing Christine

@@christinegorton8476 Hope I didn't bother you with my message

@@christinegorton8476 Hey Christine, wanna be my side chick?

Hello Denise

Hello Stephanie

Hello Cindy

*hot shower

😂😂😂😂

cold showers are good enough

Meh...showers are overated 😁

What's a shower?