How to Earn Money While Living Off Grid

As taxes get higher and the economy continues to collapse, there are already a number of items you can manufacture off the grid that will enable you to make a decent living and prepare for a major crisis.  While many of these goods require a homestead or extensive land resources, others can be made in the home or even in an apartment.

Most people think that they can make money on food production.  Depending on where you live, this may or may not be the best answer.  Typically, if you already live in an area with self-sustaining homesteads, the people in your area will already have this necessity covered.  As a business person, you, and they will be competing for customers in cities or towns where the ability to grow food is severely curtailed.  In fact, you may already be making money selling to these people if you have an established organic farm or one that people prefer over going to the supermarket.

If you or others around you are able to produce food, bear in mind that major disasters and social unrest bring riots and government attempts to control people.  Your goods may be seized or stolen at the source, or as you go into towns and cities in an effort to sell your wares.  Nevertheless, right now you can make off grid money on the following goods and think about how you will continue to do so in a major collapse scenario.  Use the links in each section for more details on how to get started:

• Grow Chickens for Meat and Eggs – (can also be done in towns and cities)
• Raise Cows or Goats for Meat and Milk – (small acreage tips for cattle)
• Raise Sheep for Meat, Milk, and Wool
• Grow Medicinal Herbs
• Grow Fruits and Vegetables
• Build, Make, or Obtain Goods for Growing Food – this includes everything from soil enhancers, earthworms, beneficial insects, farming/gardening tools, fertilizers, and anything else that might be used by others that want to produce their own food.
• Even if you live in a homestead area, make it a point to diversify your growing methods. Create an underground hydroponics system in a well-fortified bunker for the ultimate ability to grow enough food for yourself and to sell to others.  Some of your crops should also be geared toward producing a high volume of seeds that will grow edible sprouts. In a time of need, you can produce several pounds of food in just a few days.

Access to water and water purification is another area where you may find local people that will buy from you, or, you may have to look elsewhere for customers.   If you happen to have access to a pond, stream, or other sources of potable water, I still recommend building water purifiers and water production equipment.  Try to focus on production equipment that it is easy to set up and carry.  If you have to sell to people in a city or other complex area, then you can do so with less trouble than it would take to sell food.  For this and the following sections, there are many designs and ideas, so links are not provided.  Go with what appeals to you and see how you can best adapt it to meet the needs of people in your local area or other places where you can market without using the internet.

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