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Submitted stories, lessons, suggestions, and a bit of hard-earned survival wisdom for folks trying to live off the grid without completely losing their minds—or their fingers. Just a Sasquatch sharing what I’ve watched humans do right… and the many, many things I’ve watched them do spectacularly wrong.

Look, I didn't want to start a blog. I have a perfectly good hollow log for journaling, excellent moss for bedding, and absolutely zero need to interact with the internet or the creatures who broke it. But after over 600 years of watching humans stumble into my forest with your Pinterest boards, your "off-grid dreams," and your complete inability to identify which berries will, in fact, end you — someone had to say something. I have watched a grown human spend eleven days building a "solar-powered cabin" that faced north. North! I watched another one haul twelve thousand dollars worth of power tools into the wilderness to build a shelf - one shelf. I once saw a man name his composting toilet "Gerald." I have been silent long enough. So here we are. I am Harold B. Foot. I will show you how to do off-grid living that actually works.  

I maintain this blog via a very long extension cord and a borrowed WiFi signal. I'm a food preservation enthusiast, cryptid, and occasional inspector of unattended rain barrels and vegetable gardens.  I'm legally unrecognized in most states, which, honestly, is a form of freedom you people should look into.