How to Create an Off-Grid Homestead
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Learn from someone who has done it. Eight video modules with Tao Wimbush, co-founder of the Lammas Ecovillage. Learn at your own pace, from wherever you are.
Most people who dream of living on the land never get started. Others start, then lose years and savings to avoidable mistakes: the wrong land, the wrong design, a planning application that fails.
Tao has lived off-grid for 30 years and lives at Lammas with his family. He led the Lammas Ecovillage through its planning application from 2006 to 2009, has since worked on more than twenty-five One Planet Development planning applications, and trained as an architect. This course distils that experience into a clear roadmap for your own journey.
What you'll gain:
- A clear, step-by-step route from dream to homestead
- The confidence to choose land, and to know what to avoid
- A design for your land that works with nature, not against it
- An honest understanding of the planning system, including One Planet Development in Wales
- Practical know-how for food, energy, water, building and waste
- Fewer costly mistakes, and more of your money and energy left for your land
Feedback from a participant:
'I found Tao's course an invaluable reference in planning our land based enterprise. The videos are concise and distill a lot of lived experience into manageable and sensible areas produced professionally, enjoyable and informative. I was able to frame some of my existing plans and ideas against Tao's experience and own site. I came away with a clearer understanding of what to plan and work at next and indeed clarification that I wasn't a million miles away. Many thanks for a great hand rail in this new start for us..'
Rob P. April 2024
Want to keep learning with others? The Off-Grid Homesteading Club brings you monthly online meetups with Tao and a community of fellow land-dreamers, for £25 a month.
There are eight modules – each with video tutorials and PDF handouts, exploring a range of topics. We will cover the following subjects:
5 steps for manifesting an off-grid homestead from scratch. Including how to find land, and how to successfully transition to an off-grid lifestyle
Zoning and layout design: How to design a successful land-management pattern for your homestead
Food growing systems. Including how to create microclimates, building soil health, livestock options, nursery systems, crop choices and storage
Creating electrical energy from renewables, managing biomass coppice systems and designing sustainable patterns for human energy
Options for sourcing potable water, managing water flows in the landscape, and creating ponds
Natural building techniques, materials, and principles of good construction
The nutrient cycle and waste management, including compost toilets and reedbeds
How to navigate the planning system
