Thread: New Zealand Off Grid Living And Homesteading

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.