Off Grid UK - Starting an off grid Homestead/Smallholding 

Love to see more and more breaking free from the system, hope you are still doing well if not better 🥰💫

At 29 I'm planning on doing the same thing even if I go it alone 😝

That's one of the things which sucks about living in the UK. You can't do anything without having to pay rates or some other crap. Winds me up!

Well done Dad and Andrea considering that I haven’t been down there for a few months it looks amazing xx

Love what ye are doing best for luck all from Ireland

planning in uk is designed to keep small holders off the land at all costs... and the market is run by solicitors and estate agents and its utterly corrupted....why?

One year in my van now,, superb I love it.. Just traveled France..

Good luck on your adventure! We are living offgrid in Spain. Best decision of our lives! Enjoy it.

I enjoyed your vlog, It was great seeing people living the way they want. good luck to them.

good luck to you both.

Well done! on choosing an amazing lifestyle!

All The Best of Luck to you both. I’ve always wanted to do what your doing I really hope it works out for you 😃

love it to bits. I really hope every thing works out for you both. Your living your dreams. And mine best of luck for the new year. Take good care your very special

love to you guys!! Keep on keeping on...

Great stuff. Why should we have to have permission to not have to rely on someone's big company ie electric, water etc. Ridiculous!

Lovely teamwork... Great inspiration both of you... All that's good - tks for sharing...

You are winners ! John ex patt here Thailand 15 years & returning UK spring 019 off grid Somerset in a yurt, sorted !!

I want to try. I've been thinking about this for many years. I'm afraid of loneliness

Love what you guys are doing , so many people want to do it but are scared to take the plunge. I would sell up and do it tomorrow if I the wife was interested in that way of life , so fed up with full time employment and being bullied at work by managers is not a safe place to be. I take my hat off to you guys and wish you all the best for the future, I will follow you and I feel you will succeed and be happy 👍

I take my hat off to you both. BRAVO!

Many hands make light work. Very hard work Living the dream. Bless you both

Ridiculous that you have to ask the government for permission to live on your own private land!

Good on you both!

Good luck to you both , great video 👍👍👍

Well done guys, doing the same here, loving it , best move I ever made,

more people need to follow live your dreams, love life best of luck wish you the very best from ireland

Well done and best of luck with this change

Ahhh love the chickens in the back ground, they are so relaxing to watch!

HOW DID YOU FIND YOUR LAND PLEASEI want to go off grid and get away from the rat race and PEOPLE!, Ive had enough of all the violence, stabbings, loud music, screaming kids etc. I lost my home years ago when i got divorced so can only afford 2 acres of land. 😢I will build a wooden cabin, live off solar power, collect my own water, poo in a bucket and cook on a log burner! Screw the rest of the world! I admire you GOOD ON YOU! Plant TREES, you can use them for fire wood, Trees control flooding 😃 trees make the wind less on your home. If you have no utilities connected they CANNOT MAKE YOU PAY ANY COUNCIL TAX WHATSOEVER THAT IS ILLEGAL! They CANNOT evict you from your own land. If council prats come on your land uninvited that is TRESPASSING! I cant find any land anywhere because of the GREED! People asking £100,000 FOR ONE ACRE! I dont want any houses anywhere near me either. WELL DONE! 👍🏻 Is there any land near you I,ll come and join you and help!

Well done😁👍👏👏👏

Great everything. Thank you ;-)

wonderful, any chance of a update, would love to see this place and have a chat, good luck both of you .

Please upload more videos, I love what you do. I escaped the rat race few years ago to live with very little money in central Europe. But I do wish I can do that in the UK, It's my home and I feel lonely here.

Good on you👍

Fantastic way of living. Hard work but what a way of life😁

BRILLIANT,

Wholesome :) hope they are doing well

Fabulous! give it a couple of years and it'll all come together! With spare land they could have camping on there as an extra income!

great people its the way to go.

Somerset Levels? Looks so open :) So much good luck and good wishes to you!

bravo les gars

Lovely couple

The girl in this video is amazing, fantastic attitude...........the guy in my opinion is the luckiest guy in the world!

am new to your channel, wishing you all the luck from Arkansas U.S.A

Living the dream :)

what a wonderful, courageous and fantastic experience!!! You do have lots and lots of animals, large ones especially, that take so much care and bring on extra work that needs to be done. But I can see how rewarding this is. What a beautiful way to grow old together and live your life. Truely inspiring! PS do Andrea and Andy have a facebookpage or so where we can follow their experiences, or another way to contact them? Thanks!

You must have great satisfaction in what you’ve achieved. Something to be said for keeping busy to keep you sane. I’m looking to buy woodland for a similar simpler life.

I feel ya sis

Try asking the local waste recyclers about acquiring some crushed brick to lay down over your muddy areas. thats a good start ! Admire your ambitions ... best wishes for the future !

I love the way they live a big dream of mine

Good for you guys! We are about to find out if we have been successful in getting 3 acres, ours will be stock free. Our journey will also be on our channel soon, and we are writing a book about the whole process, it's a bare plot, no infrastructure, so gonna be hard work, it has temp planning permission for 5 years then we have to apply for full planning. Us Brits will join in the Homestead movement on small plots here in the UK. I hope people like you and us are an inspiration to others who dream of a different lifestyle. We wish you all the best x Jo and Dave

Robin Williams lives!

Muddy wellies are the way forward lol. I hope your adventure is still going strong. I think once you've had a taste of freedom, coming back to a 9 till 5 slave to the system becomes less appealing. ~🌻~

I wish you all the look in the world

From Sussex England I would love to come maybe camping in the summer and give you a hand with jobs and learn from your experience, I have an 8 year old son he would love to get stuck in!

Love your vibe! When can I move in? 📦♥️🥰

its too late for me now. age has caught up with me but deeply regret not being as brave as you and doing what you have been doing.

Thereee you are Peter!!!

Well done the pair of you. Im moving to Devon soon I have bought a smallholding with a house and outbuildings and I am very lucky to have been able to do so. BUT what to do when Im there ?? I suppose it will all fall into place lol.

Get on Workaway and get an extra pair of helping hands in exchange for food :)

Would love to do what you done but my health is too bad now so will have to stick to what I got I’m afraid

"IF" we wanted to have a wash, we can LOL!!

Is there a quarter acre spare for a larger carpentry workshop build and space to site a couple of poly tunnels. Estate agents been no use the last three years. Thanks.

Love Somerset for cheddar

hats off to anyone who tries this , I could see myself doing this and ignore any doomer's or the vegans

Turn its into a donkey sanctury, youll get planning for log cabin then, Get in touch if you want more info as local.

Morning Where in simmerset is this pleas Lookslovely I am in Hertfordshire Have family in Bridgwater x

What’s a permission? Local bylaws etc? Do you have unincorporated areas like we do here in Ontario Canada? We have no local govt. no bylaws. Nothing so we are free. Our taxes are $350 a year.

Look up "one planet development" for those of you that want this kind of life.

How much did the land cost?

If we wanted to have a wash we can.

please may i buy my logs from you? i would rather the cash goes to you wonderful folk.

Ot is a hard job looking sfter the animals as well as maintenence on the land and dealing with everyday stuff.

"Dear, shall we push the boat out and have a wash tonight?!"

Hello. I love the video. Do this couple have any social media account? I would like to ask some questions.

Not sure I'd be comfortable living with harold shipman, especially as I'm getting older now.

RU-vid "Maximus ironthumper" this guy can give you a few tips on planning permission.. Also "Chris harbour" round house build..

Why not just buy land in Wales? As far as I’m aware you don’t need planning permission for what your doing

How do I go about doing this if I don't have anyone to divorce?

It's insane to realise that being homeless in England is illegal - you can't not have a fixed address. You can't even wild camp in England as it's classed as trespassing as all land is owned. You need permission to build on the land you've bought, you need permission to have access to the land you've bought. You can't permanently live in a non-fixed building, as that would require taxing and, again, permission (E.g. Mobile home). Yet if you want a house, you have to mortgage a fortune from a bank, then required to work to pay that off or risk loosing everything. Not just the mortgage, but the utilities and all the 'stuff' to go inside it. You're in a fixed location, so that puts reasonable limits on the radius of which you can travel for work and the amount you can earn. You'll need a vehicle - again is a loan these days. Your employer will have you captured, as you'll have to obey to pay for the debt you've accumulated. At what point are we just becoming a slave to the system, just to provide the basics for survival? At what point does the freedom start? Besides the few weeks a year you get off from work, when do you get to live your life?

Why dont u grow a food forest? U can eat and sell organic produce

What happens when they are no longer physically fit enough to do all these day to day chores. When they reach there 60s. How are they going to be able to support themselves then? I'm not trying to put a downer on things just trying to understand the bigger picture.

Lucky people to be out of the rat race..

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Need a shave dad 😂

Where you up to now, did you get the right to reside?

Rediscovering a lost way of life.

Have you considered making money online like an only fans account or something.

and yet another uk youtuber doesn't state how much the lland was or how they got planning permission

We're about to give it a go, put everything we own into agricultural land already has a log cabin with solar and mains water and a smallholding of animals. Literally ditched our rental and ploughed investments into it. You only live once. Take a chance, if all else fails sell the land and buy something else. We're Done with society and it seems its done with us. Middle of nowhere.

I always thought how totally silly it is that if someone owns some land in the UK and say it is totally away from anyone and you can't see it you can't be upset by anything on it? Even then you still need some pen pushing local planning public servant to Ok any work on your own land and any building even if no one would see it from anywhere else or have any upset from it. Yes of course we need planning rules for what is safe or right, But not what home you can build on your own away from anyone else land? Just totally silly system.. They need to set up a 3 zone rules for building on private owned land? Zone 1 > this be land at least 50 miles away from anyone else. this Zone can have any building built on it, as long as the fire and safety rules are followed? Zone 2 > at least 30 miles away from anyone else.. this zone can have any building that does not cause a eyesore or is a fire or safety risk? Zone 3 > at least 15 miles away from anyone else. Has the same main rules as zone 2 but also has a rule that states any building must meet the local county planning rules due to it being seen and have a effect on other homes? That way anyone in zone 1 can build a home and only need to make sure it is safe to live in.

I'd have the whole roof in solar but I don't miss electric 😂😂

Bit of a mess not going to lie

Fed up paying fat cat land lords and banks try buy find caravans some off grid land to rent or find a nice farmer get a park your home very cheap rent ,

my dream life.....but in this country its a battle.....yet this country wants to be green,,,,they dont they want money of you

if current laws had been in place when the Pilgrims arrived in N. America - there would be no USA (probably true in the UK too)

He clearly hates it lol 😂

So she used her ex husband's money from the divorce to finance this. What a horrible person.

So really your not living off grid

"If I hadn't had my divorce, I wouldn't have had the money" So some poor bloke is paying for this because you rinsed him