Your answers suggest why I brought this up. I do not know about the things you are great at. You have skills I do not. However, while I am sure I am not the only one around with good survival skills, I have devoted the past 20 years to mastery of this field alone.

Welders, and supplies are great. If you can get them into a remote location and use them in the field, excellent. What I am proposing is not a technology based survival community. I am not against people having mechanical and technological stuff... I think it is fine if it works for you... but I am talking about complete self-sufficient (without technology) community in a remote location. If you can bring a welder and use it, fine. If you can have canned goods, fine. But the foundation of this community would have pure, raw, natural rescources as it's foundation... and everyone would use them for core sustenence. If someone had some farm-type implement or way of doing something, I don't see a problem with that. Like I said, we all have various skills that complement another. My expertise is solely in 100% primitive living. If you asked me to write for Motherearth news, I may not know what to say... Cause that is another kind of "off the grid" living.

I started practicing survival skills when I was 16. I tried everything in every book, only to discover that none of it worked. It sold books. Plain & simple. Disheartened I turned to Cahokia mounds museum, and began talking with archaelologists about HOW the prehistoric indians lived here. That started me on the right track of learning by trial and error. Then I went off to college to study Anthropology. From here... I established self reliance. I finally made functional bows (my first 4 broke) and I could finally make friction fires, chip out razor sharp arrow heads (I even ran an arrow through my arm in an accident and lived... despite arterior bleeding)... I was out for 3 months in 2000 wherein I tangled with big cats, etc. only to end up getting married a year later and starting the survival school.

For 20 years I have devoured every conceivable publication regarding primitive skills. I have heard just about everything. There are so many ways of doing the same thing... be it fire, tanning, putting up meat, making a better bow, etc. I have developed my own style, because it works best for me. This is all I have to give. I know a little about using modern stuff... but I do not know alot, because I have devoted my self to obtaining one kind of knowledge and one kind only.

So you too have specialized knowledge that could benefit such a group. You too have spent your years in devotion to some sort of knowledge. We both need eachother.

So for starters, I know a place where the water is pure. It is a place full of springs and miles from anyone or anything. I lived there 2 months. It has flint in the creeks. The finest hardwoods. Thousands of plant species for medicine/food. Game is abundant. I always saw at least a dozen deer/day. Turkey every other day. I did tangle with a black panther, twice. They are there too. But we can fix their wagon. The natural stone is the shape of castle rock. Easy fortifications could be build. It is so remote, that nature will tell you when someone or something foreign has entered the woods, giving plenty of time to prepare. While there is no place in the lower 48 where a man does not go... I can assure you, you will not see anyone for weeks or months if you so desire. If worse comes to worse, this place is where I will go. But maybe you have a spot.