160 Year Old Abandoned Ranch - Restored - Off Grid Homestead

This 160 year old Ranch was abandoned for decades but has been restored into a gorgeous off grid homestead. Complete with gravity fed spring water, solar power system, composting toilets, huge gardens and orchards.
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[@JamesCouch777]

It's good to see people living in harmony with nature instead of destroying it.

[@jimf1964]

I’ve seen this type of toilet. Totally the way to go…..no pun intended. 🙂. They even have them for campers.

[@joeljeffery8704]

Most places in the United States one is severely limited to what is allowable to be called a homesite. It is frowned upon to be self-sufficient. You are most fortunate. Bless you and your family. Peace be with you and be safe

[@kentevans4218]

Loooot of preparedness and forethought went into this place!! Excellent example of what can be done when one thinks "out of the box".

[@timtv2826]

Awesome video. Thanks for bringing awareness to the fact that humans can live and live very well away from the gigantic power grids and waste treatment plants and gigantic city shopping districts. You guys are an inspiration. Thank you.

[@dontforget2020]

That place is paradise for a prepper

[@barrydeacon3551]

One of The Best Videos you guys put out!! Absolutely fascinating how a 160 year old farm vacant for 20 years could turn into such a lush off grid farm in short 5 years! Totally self sufficient 👍all waste is used on the farm!! The Sun brings in enough power Big Time! Your kids are so lucky to enjoy Your adventures👍 You have to be truly special parents to turn out girls: who have such a self efficient life style growing up🥰 Thank you for allowing us in Your Family travels Too👍 B Deacon Manitoba Canada 🇨🇦

[@Gridlessness]

Wow, thanks Barry!

[@krickette5569]

I used to live in the New Mexico desert. Our yard had irrigation and we grew fruit and nut trees, had beautiful green grass and a bountiful garden. If you stepped back from our house and looked both left and right it was 100% desert, tumble weeds, cactus, sand, etc. It's is a most amazing thing to see something like that.

[@Gridlessness]

Absolutely stunning to see what water can do!

[@MichelleTech]

Love it! As an Engineer and backyard homesteader and nature geek, I'm fascinated by the systems!

[@cherylemaybury9967]

We have sold our farm now and retired to the beach but we grew all our own food, fruits, vegetables, chickens, geese, cows, pigs etc. We had solar power, and collected all our water from the rain into a huge cement tank. We had a bio cycle sewerage system that recycled the waste water into the paddocks. I wish you could have seen it. We now live on the coast in Queensland Australia. You should check out Australia for off grid farming. We have been doing here for years. 😊 Love seeing this oasis in Mexico.

[@Gridlessness]

Your homestead sounds like it was an amazing place also. Enjoy your new beach life!

[@davidtrammell4453]

Hated to see this one end, totally fascinating and inspiring . It opened with all the technical aspects which is Jeff's wheelhouse. He was like a kid in a candy store. Just WOW ! Thank you; Gridlessness family

[@MySGarden]

The life experiences your kids are getting.....you are doing a great job

[@joanneganon7157]

What a gorgeous Place 💖. Words spoken by a true scaler 😲. These Folks have accomplished great things🌞. Thank you 😊. JO JO IN VT 💞💨❄️☃️

[@budwilliams6590]

Drinking game. Every time Jeff says yea do a shot.

[@frozenpann]

You would be spending a lot of time on the floor! Lol Rehab and detox after a couple weeks. Sorry Jeff... no Hot Dave to tease so it's all yours!

[@shadowfax9177]

Haha. I was looking for this comment. I had to turn off the video. My son and I kept laughing.

[@grdelawter4266]

What an epic vacation

[@NarnianRailway]

Delightful seeing Rose and Jeff so happy and excited visiting Rancho San Dionisio! 😇 Amazing off grid orchard and campground crafted by your wonderful hosts.

[@emerlindainfante]

Thank you for sharing this video it us in deed a paradise!

[@davidhakes3884]

Dang, now the thought I introduced may turn into the homestead South for you guys?? Glad you all are having fun.

[@davidgarrison5270]

WOW, my dream home.

[@OffgridwithJayandJen]

Thank you for sharing this place a trip with us. Best wishes

[@michaelpetremetre5130]

Thank you for sharing this video sir

[@patjordan1955]

So beautiful, pure and clean! Thanks for sharing!

[@workinonit9562]

What a wonderful concept.

[@darecofreedomfarm3]

Beautiful find! Our little garden of Eden is not so lush as that. The piney wood of East Texas is too temperate for papaya. Ours died this winter in our sun room because of the extremes. 80 degrees F one day then frost the next morning. It’s been a crazy year already. Freeze warning tonight and most of my mature fruit trees are in full bloom. I started a fire in the old wood cook stove out in my green house/ lower patio area, to try and save my moringa tree, rice, and seed trays full of seedlings. Just climate change I guess! LoL Bless Y’all for bringing such great content to our homes.

[@Gridlessness]

Sounds like your garden of Eden is pretty special too!

[@darecofreedomfarm3]

@@Gridlessness aye! It is to me anyway..

[@mikebateman8021]

What kind of living endless fruit never get backed up 😋

[@GJL216]

That place is gold, You people are awsome.

[@sandrathomson1084]

Thank You Gridlessness for sharing this Beautiful Place. 👍🏻👍🏻. Appreciate the People who have given back to our world. Stay safe. God Bless Y'all ❤🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@jawick]

Amazing how close it is to Cabo, but still a world away.

[@bennym1956]

Amazing place, thank you for sharing your visit !

[@gingerehrhardt843]

😮Very very cool. I think that would be my dream home.

[@ecocentrichomestead6783]

Propane - The off gridders dirty little secret!

[@michaelmount76]

Thanks for another great video guys

[@josephinebrito6185]

Hi guy's looks you're all having fun enjoy. With love

[@davypeugeot]

Wow guys Amazing !!! Watched Ng as always from south east Ireland

[@frozenpann]

You guys are really blessed to be on this journey! You've earned it after all your years of hard work at your own homestead. Thanks for sharing your experiences. I can only imagine how vulnerable you all felt in the beginning. Travels are always filled with uncertainty and emotional learning curves. You're all very brave. Safe travels!

[@denisewilson8367]

What an awesome home for them, and a wonderful place for the rest of the world to come visit. I would love for my new homestead to reflect many of the things they have here. I leave in about a month to look for my new home.

[@maryplett5799]

This looks amazing, love the fruit trees and the whole setup how it’s run!! What an adventure for you all!!

[@allanliu1314]

Such an amazing place!

[@springgoodhart8676]

The rattle snake is pretty pretty! (and tastes like chicken!) Nice ranch! Thanks :)

[@mr.potatohead6138]

Wow!!!! I must go there. The snake tho....😮

[@JanDeeKat]

Happy video! This beautiful finca reminds me of where I lived in Spain, with friends there, did building, welding work, offered a small ruin, shoulda stayed, TBH

[@philipshane768]

The ranch, yeah, has trees, yeah, and a garden, yeah, and water , yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[@shadowfax9177]

The guy he was talking to started to look annoyed after a while.

[@rickholloway5218]

What a great system they have, there. A lot of thought and hard work made that into a beautiful place! Thanks for sharing that with us!

[@heribertorodriguez3968]

Que chulada de rancho que bueno que les gusta esos lugares saludos atoda la familia y ay tamos con ustedes al trillón

[@Gridlessness]

Gracias

[@anitamoolman168]

That is what my city Port Elizabeth looks like in South Africa. We also have a post office building made from human waste

[@lcampbe7]

Gorgeous area... thnx for sharing

[@Scott___T]

Thank you for sharing! Followed them on IG!

[@shineeye4896]

‘Doug and Stacy Off Grid’ does the same composting toilet idea but with dozens of 5gal pails w/ lids and sawdust.

[@stephendouglas6328]

You should check out Off Grid with Jay and Jen in northern Michigan. Incredible homestead they built themselves.

[@jjordan7205]

I really wana join you guys. Living in nature with love and happiness. It's amezing.

[@ChileExpatFamily]

Well you want to hear about Homesteading? We have been homesteading in Chile (the REAL DEEEEEP SOUTH) for the past 10 years. We bought a raw piece of land and build almost everything with our own hands. We are off grid and grow most of our own food. (Veggies, sheep, cattle, pigs. ducks, chickens, rabbits, donkeys and geese too but they are pets). Once a month we drive to the closest city an hour away and buy things we can not grow. We are happier and more free than we were before we came here and we live cheaper because we pay NO TAXES on our land and property. It is safer here where we are in the country side. Our neighbors are more like family and we all look out for and help each other. We left the crazy world of being a slave for the government and now we live life in Chile. We have had about 90 families visit us in the past 4 years. We have a massive group of friends who are gringos and Chileans and we get together often. On any week end it is not uncommon for there to be 20 people at our house for the whole day. Many people have stayed with us, from all over the world, in our little cabana and it has been a joy to be a host to these people who often come back. Well come see us. It is a little bit of a drive but it is all down hill. Jim in Chile.

[@Gridlessness]

Your homestead sounds absolutely amazing! You never know, maybe we’ll take you up on the offer some day!

[@Gridlessness]

Your homestead sounds absolutely amazing! You never know, maybe we’ll take you up on the offer one time!

[@danaaccola8342]

This will be a new way for you to share your homestead, camper sites for summer in the great white north.

[@PauloAlmeida-pr6fc]

Bom dia aqui do sul do Brasil 🇧🇷

[@outdooorsman]

awsome videos guys!!!!! you are so lucky to be able to do that

[@SugarCreekOffGrid]

This place is very inspiring!!

[@Gardeningchristine]

Nice tan for mid March 🤣. Great video!

[@jameshenry3802]

Another awesome video 😀👍👍

[@podegenst0ner303]

Another great video today 👍👍👍👍👍👍 Thanks for all your hard work and content

[@FindPlace]

Divine ranch I Def want to camp with My son

[@outpostcamp]

Awesome guys!

[@RiverbendlongbowsOutdoors]

Awesome 👌

[@mickemike2148]

My take on the of gridding business is that you really should live where water doesn't freeze.

[@JJ.LovesAnimals]

Beautiful

[@thebeardedgolfer9819]

Would like to see an interview with Jessie Ventura if you are still down there. I take it he spends half years right there on the west coast beach there. Would be and interesting conversation about living in the area, and his comments on your independent adventure.

[@josephknowlton7246]

Liked, shared and commented 🥃🍻

[@Gridlessness]

Thanks!!

[@jazebzaib7260]

hi guys , love from pakistan

[@ВладимирЛарин-д6ы]

Ва отличные ребята 👍👍👍!!!

[@TheBubagrunt]

Great share. Enjoy seeing the visions of others and how they live in symbiotic relationships with their surroundings. 20 minutes seems insufficient for this video😢

[@WhatDadIsUpTo]

10:10 Composting Toilet I have used a composting toilet for going on 14 years. I DO NOT separate liquids from solids. In fact, the amonium component of urine, actually "DRIVES" the composting reaction. I put a small kitchen trash bag inside a 5-gallon plastic bucket, snap on a tiny toilet seat and call it good. Pee and poop begin composting in the bag right off the bat. Instead of hauling poop-filled buckets and then washing and sanitizing them, I haul out 5 or 6 bags, run a razor accross their bottoms, dump them all, then cover with straw, gather the bags into one new clean bag and toss THAT BAG into the trash at the gas station in town when I buy gas from them. Never have / had any odors or bugs in 14 years and a year's worth of potty trips composts down to about 1 inch of soil after 2 years. I have 3 terminal composting piles or bins and rotate their useage in order. Easy peasy Edit: I don't use toilet paper. Rather, I built myself a bidet washer wand with hot and cold water.

[@keithjacobson4493]

I was also surprised at the separation of the urine but perhaps it has more immediate value as fertilizer.

[@budwilliams6590]

C:N ratio 20-30:1 so use a lot of saw dust.

[@campjefferson8947]

Like you said. An oasis!

[@russwise1]

😎👍👍 Awesome

[@suecameron934]

U wanna road trip to North Queensland in Australia?

[@Gridlessness]

Who knows. Maybe one day!?

[@imsumanensanujamir4827]

Jeff share your experiences

[@JAMESschwartz1]

Society would run a lot better if "we all just grew up and dealt with our own poop".

[@Gridlessness]

Yep

[@frozenpann]

True story.

[@dedijayasutia5589]

Indonesian hadir....

[@jimf1964]

I just watched a doc on how some cartels are taking over avocado farms, because it’s such a huge money maker for Mexico. I hope this guy stays small enough to stay off the radar. It’s probably not in the same region anyway.

[@Gridlessness]

Totally different region. ☺️

[@LastChanceTinyHouse]

Read the humanure book, it might just blow your mind.

[@dwade2026]

So did you make a few test pans in the river 😏

[@Gridlessness]

Didn’t, but wanted to…..

[@conniewilson5531]

That's not just a rattle snake. That's a diamond back rattle snake

[@shadowfax9177]

Say "yeah" again.

[@jjcjr009]

The lizard said YO NO HABLA INGLES,

[@selador11]

Why is rattlesnake not dinner and wallet already?

[@JonOffgrid]

wow

[@jasonlightfoot4145]

Rattlers are good eatin, also good rodent control, so its a balance. Rather have Bull snakes around the homestead, that way I don't worry about guests, kids and the dogs.

[@Gridlessness]

😳

[@stevenwintersnight1036]

Solar is very intimidating.

[@corneliaopoku]

Yh I bet it's very expensive too.

[@wags9777]

Ya,ya, ya, yup

[@66bigbuds]

Be hard to leave there.

[@aztecwarrior5510]

👏💚👏💚👏💚👏💚

[@Oldworldranch]

Be honest, did you guys think about moving there?

[@frederickbierweiler8020]

gold in the river?

[@charlesurrea1451]

Don't even say that in Mx. If there's even the thought it causes a cascade.

[@frozenpann]

I would have been panning it!

[@dwighthires3163]

If you are looking for a free night on your trip north we live five blocks off Highway 1 in the south part of San Quintin. We have sleeping for 18 guests and parking for your vehicle. Respond to us and we can connect if this is something which interests you. We are not commercial and do not want to be featured but are willing to invite you and your family in as you travel.

[@Gridlessness]

Hi, thank you so much for your kind offer! Are you able to send us a private message on our webpage? Gridlessness.com.

[@Gridlessness]

We’re not totally sure of our route, but maybe it’ll work out!

[@dwighthires3163]

@@Gridlessness I will try. But if not I can send you my number here if you promise to delete my message quickly.

[@dwighthires3163]

I think I was sucessful at leaving a message on the website so check it out.

[@frozenpann]

That's so cool! More friendly connections.

[@Roger21989]

Jeff, quit saying yep every two seconds!

[@OutlawCarson]

Yea Yea Yea

[@sandyc6569]

❣❣❤❤❤❣❣

[@BulletproofPastor]

Not being gross- Two levels of “poor” have made their way into our language. Both have to do with harvesting urine for fertilizer. When someone’s sole income came from collecting &selling urine, they were said to be “P*** poor.” Those even less fortunate were said they “didn’t have a pot to “P*** in.” Most people say things they have no idea what they mean. 😂

[@JamesCouch777]

So true. Most people have no idea 😊

[@mhz9257]

Lesson to learn about the urine is diluting it 20:1 before applying

[@joegreenwood1443]

Or a window to throw it out of.

[@stuffbywoody5497]

I wouldn't say that was poor quality, or said in poor taste.

[@denisewilson8367]

@@mhz9257 requirements state 10:1 ratio is full strength usage. 20:1 is half strength. They don't need more to have beautiful plants & trees.

[@ookalleoo]

👍

[@chronoboat11]

Where is this?

[@ubertramp4297]

10:45 *Rose remembers the fruit that she ate that was sprayed with pee...

[@gh0stgl1tch]

"Gridless" but you have youtube ?