This site documents my experience living in solitude near the woods of Central Europe.
I focus on self-reliance through vegetable gardening and the day-to-day care of the land and animals around me.
My setup is powered by solar energy, a water well, and simple, minimal housing.

What am I off-grid from? I live without a permanent connection to the electricity grid, municipal water, sewer system and gas. I rely mostly on systems I built, maintain, or adapt myself.

After about two years of living this way, I’ve realized that life no longer comes at me — it comes from me.
Decisions have consequences, and there’s no one else to blame when things fail or work.
That responsibility is uncomfortable at times, but it’s also where a real sense of freedom comes from.

I started writing this because I want to speak my feelings about offgrid being something, that people run towards, as a way to avoid the current world problems – living in a big city, having a corporate job. Most writings about off-grid life focuses on romantic view of easy life. My experience has been shaped more by hard work and spending alone time with a very difficult person – myself.

I write in English for a practical reason. Distance. Writing for a broader, international audience allows me to share openly without tying this site too closely to my close surroudings. That distance gives me a sense of safety, false or not, and space to think honestly. So I apologize for my English in an advance. It is not my first language.

This isn’t a guide or a blueprint. It’s a record of what has worked and what has failed for me so far. I don’t always find it easy to write about failures without humor, and some experiences are uncomfortable to describe at all — but they’re part of the reality I’m trying to document.

I am not trying to convince anyone to go off-grid.

Dark nights by the woods, never-ending work and responsibilities are price for quiet mornings, birdsong on loop and full harvest baskets.

I am documenting life of one man, in one specific place. With all its limits and trade-offs.