How To Live Off The Grid

Freedom from want

Jeff Schlukebier doesn’t own a fancy car, an iPad or a home theater. Heck, he doesn’t have electricity.

What he does have is a super-efficient home in a secluded valley southwest of Rapid City where he and his neighbors live off the power grid, largely free from want.

“Life is really simple. It’s trying to stay alive. You need food, shelter, warmth and to bathe,” Schlukebier said.

“A lot of my day is spent in trying to achieve those things. I’m actually pretty content in living simply. I feel really productive that today I worked in the garden, or today I got some firewood.”

For 20 years, the man has carved out space on a lush piece of property northwest of Sheridan Lake, where he lives by himself, but doesn’t get lonely with three dogs and frequent houseguests.

While building his permanent home, he spent 12 years living in a Mongolian yurt — basically, a large tent — perched on a hillside surrounded by pines.

His single-story hand-built cabin with a grass roof, is heated by a massive Finnish style mason wood stove.

He pumps water with voltage harnessed through photo-voltaic panels and heats it with the sun. In the summer, his outdoor kitchen and washroom spring to life.

“The winters are different. I’m up right away starting the wood cook stove, starting to cook breakfast, then thinking about gathering or splitting firewood,” Schlukebier said.

“Then, I do laundry by hand. Depending on whether it is winter or summer I might spend some time in the garden or planting or going out and gathering wood.”

He works a summer garden with broccoli, cabbage, carrots, potatoes and onions.

He hunts one deer a year for meat through the winter. He is considering bringing in goats and chickens.

He says he has more than he needs and still has simple desires but has spent much of his time trying to become more efficient. He goes grocery shopping a couple times a week and relishes in the luxury of his homemade steam bath sauna with thick cordwood masonry walls.

Schlukebier said if society could focus on needs first — and experience hauling firewood, cooking over an open fire and producing food from a garden — we might all be more grateful for what we have.

Even with his basic existence, he is far from the national poverty line, stipulated at $10,890   gross annual income for a single person.

Still, about 1-in-7 people in the state fail to cross the threshold.

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