Where does wild wonderful off grid take place?

Wild wonderful off grid is a YouTube channel started on May 12 2018, by a young couple Erin age 30s and Josh Myers (age 32), in their attempt to document the self-construction of their own home located in West Virginia, United States.

The channel comes under the category of How-to and Style. The wild wonderful off grid has grown steadily since its debut and has a subscriber count of 840k.  Their channel gets around 200k views every day.

Pretty high for a channel on off-grid living right?

• Who are Josh and Erin of wild wonderful off grid?
• Where is wild wonderful off grid located?
• How did they start all this?
• How much does wild wonderful off grid make? (Net Worth)

Who are Josh and Erin of wild wonderful off grid?

On-screen Josh, Erin and their adorable kids approach the challenge of building their dream home with A plan, good nature and humour.

You may wonder how they stayed together during this stressful period of this huge project and life transition.

Besides being an amiable couple on-screen who enjoy each other’s company, joke around and all Josh and Erin also have a good understanding of each other.

The family includes two boy’s carter and Haiti; and their adorable smiley, dimply preschooler Ellie.

That’s not all!

They also have chucked a silver-coated Boston terrier who is elderly and always underfoot; an adolescent bull steers Bruce; a young goat named Leon and a flock of chickens.

Where is wild wonderful off grid located?

On May 10 2018 Josh and Erin’s journey to a new step in their life began.

They decided to sell their home and everything they owned to move off-Grid with their three children like life uncontained. The off-grid couple builds their own house on 73 acres of land in the mountains of West Virginia.

Their primary aim was to leave behind the city life and build off-grid house, which is free of debt and learn to live a self-sufficient lifestyle.  

Since then they have lived in a 30’ RV as a family of 5 until their home begins inhabitable.

Can you guys imagine building a house of your own from scratch clearing up all the trees and self-financing the construction of the house without any loans?

It’s easier said than done.

But this cute and adoring family has done just that through sweet determination and humour.

How did they start all this?

Wild wonderful off grid Josh and Erin say that the main reason for moving out of their previous house was that they had outgrown their property.

They made a full-fledged farm which started off with just six chickens in a small coop!

They outgrew the land and started to crave more self-sufficiency.

In the first video, they talk about building a log home in the winter cutting down logs and preparing them to dry.

However, their goods got robbed and they decided to go with an A-frame home because it would be easy to build.

Josh and Erin Myers’s house will be powered by solar that way they will be saving much on electricity bills.

The children are homeschooled and taught by Erin.

Erin was a middle school teacher, and that’s why Josh thinks that homeschooling their kid is the best option.

Elle, who is just four years old, stays close with Erin and Josh while they work.

How much does wild wonderful off grid make? (Net Worth)

What is wild wonderful off-grid net worth?

Although their net worth is not publicly known their income from YouTube can be estimated.

As of 2021, they have an estimated net worth of $1.44 million which can go up to $2 million, considering their multiple sources of income like their second channel and farm business.

Moreover, they also work with multiple brands to sponsor their videos, like honey, simple safe, SkillShare, square space etc.

Merchandise sales are also another source of income for Josh and Erin.

Are you amazed by the unique and simplistic lifestyle of this couple?

Do let us know.

Regional editor Bob Smith takes a periodic look at trends in social media, digital platforms and entertainment options for 2021. In this column, he shares his favorite YouTube vlog visits:

Bob Smith, Kitsap News Group Regional Editor

Despite the twisted machinations of the coronavirus pandemic foisted upon the globe, it’s been something of a revelatory awakening for people open to new avenues of entertainment and information. And that’s good news for the revolutionary introduction of social media and digital platforms to the landscape, all of them hungry for content.

If you’re like me, it’s been somewhat revelatory that the death grip held by the traditional entertainment portals — over-the-air television networks ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — has loosened considerably. Those old standbys are relevant to many only for watching regional sports and local news.

Electronic entertainment platforms like Netflix, Hulu, HBO and newcomers Peacock and Disney+ are crowding the stage — new programming entities owned by deep-pocketed parent companies that are showing existing content and creating new programming.

The last decade can be credibly labeled as a new-age “Golden Age of Television,” with a slew of finely crafted, well-written and -acted limited series that overshadow almost everything the networks have had to offer viewers. Which, by and large, were well-worn comedy tropes and otherwise uninteresting dramas that followed familiar cookie-cutter plotlines meant to least offend or upset the networks’ dwindling legion of viewers.

The array of offerings have only increased, thanks to emergent social platforms.

While Netflix and the like are loaded with compelling and thought-provoking content, the platform I often find myself glued to is YouTube, which has become a vast repository of video content. much of it organically created by viewers themselves.

As has been the case personally and for other YouTube devotees, music videos have held sway over the years. But there’s so much more to capture your attention on this visual platform. While confined to home detention due to COVID-19 for much of last year, I’ve returned time and time again to a handful of YouTube channels and have become immersed in the interesting content provided by a diverse set of creators. The best content includes that which excels at storytelling, guided by authenticity and humanity. Here are some of my favorite channels on YouTube over the past year:

“Wild Wonderful Off-Grid”

“Wild Wonderful Off-Grid” an amiable, good-humored homegrown YouTube series about the year-long effort by thirty-somethings Erin and Josh Myers and their three young children in building their dream house from the ground up in a forested mountain region of West Virginia, next door to northern Virginia. (YouTube image)

YouTube is littered with creators who have painstakingly documented their efforts in building their own homes, including shelters constructed off the grid somewhere far away from urban life. This vlog is no different. It’s an amiable, good-humored documentary about the year-long effort of thirty-somethings Erin and Josh Myers and their three young children in building their dream house from the ground up in a forested mountain region of West Virginia, next door to sprawling northern Virginia.

After living near the city their entire lives, the young family sold everything and moved into an RV on the 73 acres they purchased prior to establishing a working farm and building an off-the-grid A-frame house in a debt-free manner. As you might imagine, it’s all easier said than done, but this cute, shaggy family managed to do it through sweet determination and humor. The family’s life beyond the construction aspect is also documented, highlighted by the couple’s two four-wheeling boys and their adorably smiley, dimply preschooler Ellie. The family menagerie also includes Chuck, an elderly, silver-coated Boston Terrier, always underfoot and looking for all the world like an oversized sausage with four legs; adolescent bull steer Bruce; a curious, tagalong young goat named Leon; and a flock of chickens that follow the family to wherever they may congregate outdoors.

This endearing, resourceful family faces the challenges of building their dream home by themselves with aplomb, humor and good nature. And it’s all captured by Erin, whose videography and narrative skills grow in sophistication and elegance as the series progresses.

It’s a touch of sweetness and perseverance in these days of COVID-19 negativity and obstruction.

While I enjoy watching the challenges of folks working to set down roots on their own terms, I’ve also found it engrossing to go along for the ride with those who have engaged their rootless, restless wanderlust to explore the globe’s lesser-known corners. Here are some of my favorite travelogues on YouTube:

“Amelia and J.P.”

“Amelia and J.P,” a homegrown series on YouTube, features a digital nomad couple living and touring Ecuador, nestled in northwest South America’s Andes Mountains. (YouTube image)

This couple in their 40s share their adventures as digital nomads living and touring Ecuador, nestled in northwest South America’s Andes Mountains. They offer fellow travelers — and traveler wannabes — an unvarnished view of life in this gentle, welcoming Latin American nation known for its mile-high altitudes and simple living. It’s all good information for folks looking to either recalibrate their busy lives in the U.S. or searching for an alternative to domestic retirement. They share interesting aspects of their vegetarian lifestyle with viewers as they comb outdoor produce markets and dine at inexpensive, but delicious, restaurants in Cuenca and Guayaquil.

“Different Russia”

“Different Russia” features the Kovtunovs’ loving, good-natured spirit as they share their lives living in this misunderstood, complicated nation. (YouTube image)

Another wife-and-husband couple, this one living in a suburban enclave on the outskirts of Moscow, Russia, offers viewers a charming view of life in this complicated nation, which continues to be burdened by obsolete social stereotypes borne from its Soviet days as a repressive communist society. The predominant task at hand for Valeria Kovtunova and her husband Alex is in building their new dacha — a weekend getaway cabin, as we Americans might define it. While not as finely crafted as is the Myers’ series, the Kovtunovs’ loving, good-natured spirit shines throughout the series. Valeria is the English translator-narrator here, and she goes to great lengths to describe everyday life in Russia in a manner relatable to westerners.

“Bald and Bankrupt”

Benjamin Rich is an engaging British travel vlogger and author, a 46-year-old Bon vivant of sorts who can be found on screen traveling through foreign lands and engaging with residents who live off the beaten path. (YouTube image)

Aficionados of the CNN television series by the late Anthony Bourdain, “Parts Unknown” — one of the finest-ever documentary series on television — likely miss the chef raconteur’s elegant writing and spellbinding imagery. I know I do. But if you enjoyed Bourdain’s iconoclastic take on food and travel, the YouTube “Bald and Bankrupt” channel might quench your thirst for his kind of storytelling.

Benjamin Rich is an engaging British travel vlogger and author, a 46-year-old Bon vivant of sorts who can be found on-screen charming a group of pensioner women living together in Moldova into sharing sips of their prized, potent Moldovan wine. Always the charmer, he even had one of the more colorful retirees ask for his hand in marriage.

Rich is a wonderful conversationalist who speaks fluent Russian and passable Spanish, which offers him entree into the lives of those he encounters while visiting worlds less traveled. His gift of gab offers an entree to pathways less traveled — often with locals in tow who are more than willing to show him their own corner of the world. He’s a bit of a character, which adds to the flavor of his vlogs that chronicle his adventures in disparate regions of the globe — from India and Russia to Cuba and Mexico.

If you have the itch to travel the world but COVID-19 restrictions are keeping you down, his vlog will keep your wanderlust alive — if only to be exercised at a later date.

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