Thread: New Zealand Off Grid Living And Homesteading

How many of you guys in NZ live off grid or have a homestead? And how big is the culture of these two things in NZ? Do any of you hunt for the meat you eat like what is common here in the United States?

You can't homestead in NZ. Probably just as well.

Originally Posted by stug

You can't homestead in NZ. Probably just as well.

Can you explain please ?


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Originally Posted by 7mmsaum

Can you explain please ?


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I'm pretty sure in Alaska you could wander out into the wilderness and claim homesteading rights. Build a house and claim a certain amount of land as yours.

Homesteading & The Homestead Act in Alaska

Originally Posted by stug

I'm pretty sure in Alaska you could wander out into the wilderness and claim homesteading rights. Build a house and claim a certain amount of land as yours.

Homesteading & The Homestead Act in Alaska

Interesting.

Originally Posted by stug

I'm pretty sure in Alaska you could wander out into the wilderness and claim homesteading rights. Build a house and claim a certain amount of land as yours.

Homesteading & The Homestead Act in Alaska

The homestead act was repealed in 1986 and the last parcel of land awarded under this act was signed off in 1988.

Shame really as I would have been keen on claiming my 160 acres of wilderness.

Cheers
Pete

Quite a few hunt most people buy from shop some go the home kill way


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I dont think NZ is large enough to Homestead like you see in Alaska.

You never far enough away from people to make it worth while from what i figure

I had to google the homestead act.

E. Beat me to it

Although it doesn't seem like it a lot of the time, the majority of land in NZ publicly owned in some way or other, either held by DOC (Dept of Conservation), Landcorp (state owned farming), etc.
Although there are people living off the grid they are just as likely to have a road going passed them a few hundred metres away, and it was simply cheaper not to connect to public mains systems.
Homesteading in the sense that I think you are talking about is rare here, a number of people have access through family and friends to out of the way huts and baches and cribs.

Originally Posted by Barefoot

Although it doesn't seem like it a lot of the time, the majority of land in NZ publicly owned in some way or other, either held by DOC (Dept of Conservation), Landcorp (state owned farming), etc.
Although there are people living off the grid they are just as likely to have a road going passed them a few hundred metres away, and it was simply cheaper not to connect to public mains systems.
Homesteading in the sense that I think you are talking about is rare here, a number of people have access through family and friends to out of the way huts and baches and cribs.

I know this valley up Puhoi way, I may go up and build a log cabin a see whether any one has a problem.

Originally Posted by Rushy

I know this valley up Puhoi way, I may go up and build a log cabin a see whether any one has a problem.

I might go do the same up the Te Urewera and see how i get on

Originally Posted by GWH

I might go do the same up the Te Urewera and see how i get on

@GHW

A good looking boy like you would soon be invited around for the main course Hangi.

Cheers
Pete

We really need something like that here, so much wasted land sitting unused

Originally Posted by specweapon

We really need something like that here, so much wasted land sitting unused

None of its wasted.