Off Grid : Man and Dog Live in Canvas Tent

So right now, we're in a forest on a 50-acre parcel that my parents own. We're in a canvas tent that I purchased about a month ago now. I set it up with the idea to live in it. Right now, I've got a house in the city where I've been living. I've lived in the city for probably five years now. I've had a house and then another house, and I spend all my time, all my free time out here. The tent I'm living in is a 14x16 canvas tent that I got from Canvas Tent Shop. I've got a wood stove that will heat this thing well down to minus 30, and I'm sure beyond that it'd still be livable. It just wouldn't be that nice, balmy 70 degrees. Right now I've got it set on a high piece of land. It's got a dirt floor, but the plan is to build a deck. instead of running deck board on it I'm going to be running plywood stain it, varnish it, throw some rugs down, get this thing up off the ground I've got a window out the back the doors both open they've got clips on either side that they clip to so you can have an open porch, I can get it up to 80 degrees in here in a matter of 10-20 minutes, which is really nice there's a lot of dead ash trees around in our area because the emerald ash borer came through years ago So on this property, I've still got probably two or three cords of wood just in dead trees laying around. So I've got a chainsaw. I've been cutting those up. In the future, I do plan on buying cords of wood and hauling them back here, putting them in a woodshed. I'm going to be running solar panels out the back where there's a field out there. I'm going to have probably a couple hundred watts of solar so I can run a freezer or fridge. in here and charge devices like like laptops and stuff like that i want to be more in control and responsible for the life i live if i want electricity i'll set up solar panels if i want water i have to go fetch it and i have to watch how much i'm using i have to find better ways so that's that's definitely a huge part of why i want to be out here for sure just to reduce my my impact to have the house and have this and that all of a sudden you're consuming a ton of stuff just to keep that going and I found for me a lot of those things aren't what I want like I want to I want to take care of myself more than rely on other people to to take care of me and have to continually keep that that ball rolling constantly you start to wonder why you need so much to be happy. And that's when I just started thinking, well, why don't I just do this all the time? Why don't I find that balance in my life that I'm comfortable with, things I'm comfortable with doing without, things that I want to have, I'll find a creative way to make it happen. And so, yeah, so I'm here now. Right now, to store food that's perishable. I've got a cooler out the side and I've got ice packs and I'm fortunate enough that my parents have a house on the land and they've got an extra freezer so I've been swapping ice packs out of there every couple days and it's been keeping my food well. I just think ahead if I want to eat something that day or the next couple days I get the meat I cook it right away and and do that and for backup I can put it in the cooler if I want to extend the life of it. So the adjustment food wise, that was one of the things I was worried about. I didn't know what I was going to do and I just kind of came out here and started doing it and found that it's not that inconvenient at all to just have a cooler for now and there's a lot of good options for freezers and fridges that are made to run off solar. it is hunting season right now as well so I've been fortunate enough to you know get some small game and uh most of what I've eaten lately has been wild game which has been awesome um I was just up north and got some grouse so had one of those in the pot got a squirrel the other day so if I can keep keep this rolling for a while it it's cheap and it's it's about as healthy as can eat oh yeah it's it's such an amazing feeling anyone who hunts or fishes knows or has a garden even you you have so much satisfaction out of harvesting your own food whether that's with a gun or you know digging it up in your garden it just it makes you feel good you know where it came from you know what it's been eating and uh there's there's there's also a satisfaction there it's kind of hard to define that you get out of it as well just the personal you feel independent you feel confident in yourself being able to take care of yourself that way i'm going to put a link to clint's channel in the description below um his channel is called zold outdoors i highly recommend checking it out you can already tell what kind of guy he is through this interview and um just an asset to learn about this kind of stuff so I appreciate you guys watching. I thank you very much for letting me have this interview. Thanks for coming. Yeah, for sure. And the beer. Yeah. Thank you for the beer. Maybe we'll crack a couple more daddy puffs. That sounds good. Take it easy, guys. I don't actually have any more daddy puffs. Okay. This is just a ruse. You do need a spittoon. I do. I do. I'll get one. I'll get one. Anybody got a spittoon out there, let me know. Clint's in need.