Remote income- How to make a living

3/4/2015

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gathering working selling local wood

build your own home with hand tools

barge hauls supplies to the wilds

The single most important aspect of living off the grid and a subsistence independent remote lifestyle is how take a living. How will the few bills get paid. There are not a lot of traditional jobs away from civilization. It’s about being self employed. It’s about being able to fix, build, invent, innovate, make do with what we have, trade barter for services and needs. There is trapping, crafts, photography, collecting wild plants, maybe seasonal work. Here is the place to learn, share, discuss, how the bills get paid and how we acquire ‘stuff’ we need. In my 45 years at this lifestyle I have done seen a lot of things I can share. Here is where to ask questions.

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mike matchette

5/22/2018 03:23:12 pm

are you a native of alaska and is that why you can sell ivory

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Miles Martin here, hi.

My main life skill is wilderness survival. I have written several books on the subject, written for the New York Times, Geo in Europe, and Alaska Magazine. I spent 25 years alone in the Alaska wilderness as hermit, mountain man, subsistence person. Beyond just ‘off the grid.’ I was born and raised in the city, had few skills beyond what I learned watching Walt Disney and some minor family camping. I paid a pilot to drop me off in the wilds, cold turkey. I walked out a year later. I built a houseboat, lived off the land nomadically with no electricity no ID no bills with my sled dogs. I lived on $2,000 a year for many years. I’ve been an artist writer knife maker for a living, mostly in my later years. I’m a 64 year old senior now. I have spent time in my youth in the city, more years in the wilds, and some time in remote villages. I travel doing art shows so am at least familiar with a variety of situations. I feel I am in a position to comment and offer meaningful advice on a lot of survival situations.

Remote income- How to make a living

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