For most folks, the word “prepper” evokes an image of someone who’s got way too much time on their hands at best, and who ...

Then, with the help of a consultant, the team developed a plan to deal with the human factors of off-grid living ... up during the Cold War. Today's preppers have plenty of survival shelter ...

Inside an off-grid community of families preparing for ... The stereotypical doomsday prepper — the paranoid fearmonger stocking bullets and canned goods in a bunker — is a fringe figure ...

The main misconceptions about life off-grid are that it's a struggle undertaken only by burned-out hippies, preppers awaiting the apocalypse and misanthropes holed up in remote mountain cabins.