He quit all to build off grid village, mountain long Earthship

15 years ago, Dan Schultz sold his 2600squarefoot home in Flint Michigan and bought 160 acres of raw land near the CaliforniaOregon border to start a village shaped by his values. For 225, 000 he bought land packed with wood for lumber, gravityfed water, and plenty of sunlight for solar and growing. He had to clear road, build a bridge and construct homes, cabins and community spaces and huge gardens and terraced hillside for growing most of their own food. The Earthship Solarium, which stretches across the hillside nearly the length of a football field, provides yearround, produce and potatoes. Goats chickens and ducks provide milk and eggs. Schultz, who s an unabashed prepper, says there is plenty of food on the property to survive any kind of disaster scenario. He focused on milk and eggs as ideal survival foods: You know milk and potatoes are nutritionally complete on their own, you can live forever. The Irish tripled their population with milk and potatoes, righ