Top 10 Off-Grid & Slow Living Stories You Loved in 2025
Stop Googling and Start Here
If you joined us this year, thank you for becoming a subscriber. If you have been with us for years, thank you for your loyalty. Knowing that people are on the other side reading, liking and interacting with our posts keeps us going and reminds us of why we write. We hope that we can be a beacon of inspiration to people who are seeking a different way of living, one in alignment with earth-loving, peaceful, community-based, heart-centered values.
This year, we sent about fifty letters, guides, and slow living dispatches into your inbox, from muddy shoes to capitalist angst to tree talk. Some posts quietly made their way into your mornings, and others loudly exploded with shares, new subscribers, and loads of comments. These ten rose to the top, thanks to a mix of analytics, intuition and personal preference.
Pick one you missed, make something warm to drink, and read it all the way through. Which is your personal favorite? Did we miss one?
Collapse Awareness
Before we talk about preparations for our uncertain future, we need to be honest about the ways things are now. These first couple of pieces look at collapse, money, and the societal programming we’ve inherited, without getting stuck in doom.
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Collapse Isn’t Coming, It’s Here
Plenty of people predict a coming collapse while others prepare for a kind of sci-fi apocalypse that sends us back to the dark ages overnight or reduces society to a brutal, Hobbesian state of nature. But history doesn’t play out nicely over 2 hours like a blockbuster screenplay, neither have historical collapses, especially at the scale of something li…
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I Don’t Want to Make Money Doing What I Love
I don't want to make money doing what I love. I don't want to commodify my art, my passions or my spirituality. I'm happy to have an easy job that pays well and plenty of free time to do what I love. If I can be of service, even better. I don't want a career. I don't want to build my resume. I don't want to “be seen.” I want a happy life with love and ease, close to the land, writing and making art.
Live Off Grid
These next posts are for people who Google land prices and wonder if there is another way. These are the how-to guides and reframed versions of what life can be like. It’s not about running away, but redefining success and happiness.
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5 Best States to Live Off the Grid
If you want to live off the grid, you may want to take into consideration what state to do it in. Some people don’t have that kind of flexibility to live anywhere, but if you do it’s important that where you are is supportive of your lifestyle. And if you don’t have a lot of cash to invest, you especially want to find someplace cheap. I did a deep dive and researched a list to help you out.
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An Off The Grid Apocalypse Version Of The American Dream Starts At $900
Surely in apocalyptic times the American Dream can’t still be sprawling suburban ranchettes or cookie-cutter cul-de-sac construction? We need a new dream that’s a little bit grittier and a whole lot cheaper.
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Slow Living
The last few posts reference everyday life: how you wake up, how you walk among trees, how you let a season imprint on your body instead of scrolling past it. They are less about leaving your life behind and more about shifting how you live the life you have now.
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Discover the Joy of Slow Living
There are many reasons to live off the grid, but one that is most important to me is Slow Living. Slow living (SL) means that no matter what is happening in the world, I am able to stay connected to what is most important. I stay centered within myself, fully resourced, connected to the land around me, and loved by friends and family. It means that I on…
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How to Connect With Trees
Trees encompass so much. They are portals, healers, wise ancestors, and immortality-gifting gods. Imagine what you can discover, spending time with a tree.
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05: Letters From the Slow Lane
Letters from the Slow Lane are love letters to life and snippets of slow living inspiration. All around the world, people waging wars, people farming rice paddies, people with ten-million super fans, people meditating in caves—everyone can relate to that feeling of a warm bed on a wet day.
Happy New Year!
2026 is going to be filled with inspiration and we promise to keep it informative, positive and chill, as always. Stick with us, the work has just begun.
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