Thread: New Zealand Off Grid Living And Homesteading

Originally Posted by sixpointfive

yo, big difference from most countries is in little ole nz you can grab a rifle, go bush and hunt deer to your heart's desire 24/7 365 days a years for the rest of ya life.. no "season tickets" no "draws" no "licences" etc..

There is plenty or "draws" woodhill hast fiordland etc etc but yes you can hunt deer all year round but some areas have special conditions on them.

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.

You'd be hard pressed to find a log to use there now

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

Or he would be part of giant boil up :-) to keep the customs up to date !

Originally Posted by MSL

We definitely do not need that here. Place is too small.

Agree.

Please keep NZ as-is. In countries with few boundraries for building/ developing, all wilderness is basically gone and opportunities for outdoorlife likewise diminished.

Yeah are homestead act ended in 1986, People up here still buy property and "homestead" to this day its just not given public land from the US federal government like it was at one time. And I do not know how hard private land is to buy in NZ but you guys do not need a lot of land to handle all your own food needs.

@Alaskaman 2016 , kinda off subject , I know its scripted to hell ... but how do those idiots in the discovery series . "the browns" ... just wander around anywhere in the bush and say , lets build a cabin here ....and do it with no consent or building regs off any kind ?

A friend of mine(Kiwi) has a construction business in Texas ,on rural land no building consent needed and you don't need a builders licence, anything goes, consent only needed in Built up areas, a lot less government involvement in that state... cheap to build as well

Well stumpy glad you actually brought this up. The browns are well know thieves up here in Alaska. A lot of remote communities in the southeast part of the state where they live hate them a lot. I guess they just wonder into peoples property and take whatever they want too. As for cabins either its scripted and they build cabins on private land or its what's called a BLM cabin. Here in Alaska residents are allowed up to I believe 3 remote cabins for hunting, trapping, fishing etc. The U.S. BLM ( bureau of land management) gives this to people by permit use. As for the Browns being legit Alaska's they are not they just got caught lying to the US federal government on the permanent dividend fund paperwork they have to fill out. And that comes from the state of Alaska taxing the oil companies for taking oil from Alaska as a natural resource and every Alaska resident and only Alaska residents get a yearly check from the state government. The browns did not live in Alaska for many years and still they collected checks by lying and stating that they lived in the state. The show just brings them up to Alaska to film every year. Most Alaska shows are falsified to at least some extent. Watch the show The Last Alaskan's that show is great and they do indeed live that remote. Hope this answered your question my friend.

i knew they were crap , no one wears a leather jacket in your wilderness .....cheers buddy ...

Originally Posted by Alaskaman 2016

Well stumpy glad you actually brought this up. The browns are well know thieves up here in Alaska. A lot of remote communities in the southeast part of the state where they live hate them a lot. I guess they just wonder into peoples property and take whatever they want too. As for cabins either its scripted and they build cabins on private land or its what's called a BLM cabin. Here in Alaska residents are allowed up to I believe 3 remote cabins for hunting, trapping, fishing etc. The U.S. BLM ( bureau of land management) gives this to people by permit use. As for the Browns being legit Alaska's they are not they just got caught lying to the US federal government on the permanent dividend fund paperwork they have to fill out. And that comes from the state of Alaska taxing the oil companies for taking oil from Alaska as a natural resource and every Alaska resident and only Alaska residents get a yearly check from the state government. The browns did not live in Alaska for many years and still they collected checks by lying and stating that they lived in the state. The show just brings them up to Alaska to film every year. Most Alaska shows are falsified to at least some extent. Watch the show The Last Alaskan's that show is great and they do indeed live that remote. Hope this answered your question my friend.

Good on Ya @Alaskaman

I appreciate your a good honest commentary here.

An honest straight up answer is a characteristic that most Kiwis admire in a person.

Cheers
Pete

Originally Posted by Alaskaman 2016

Yeah are homestead act ended in 1986, People up here still buy property and "homestead" to this day its just not given public land from the US federal government like it was at one time. And I do not know how hard private land is to buy in NZ but you guys do not need a lot of land to handle all your own food needs.

Private land isnt hard to buy here, like anything your only real restriction is $$$. You could quite easily buy a plot of land and grow vege/keep animals for quite an affordable sum as long as its far from any of the main centers. Shit you dont even have to live in NZ or be a resident to buy land privately here which is frankly a bit fucked but ill keep politics to a minimum.

Interesting thread Alaskaman.
I know (or know of) a number of people who have bought large bush or scrub blocks and used diggers/dozers/Powergel to re-open the disused logging roads from years ago. Sometimes an old skid site has been used as house site.
When visiting small rural towns I always check out the local real estate agency for remote bush blocks...have seen some 200-1000 acre blocks for as little $$ as a section in the city. Helps if it`s NOT near a beautiful sandy beach or scenic lake. Have always liked the idea of a private 5 km driveway to my own hut!