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I was surfing Les Stroud’s main website today and saw that he will be publishing a 2 part show called “Off The Grid” which will show Les and his family move to a 150 acre lot with a bunch of go green stuff. But done take my word for it, here is the exact description on the website.
While renegotiating doing another season of Survivorman, Les Stroud is producing two one-hour specials for Canada’s OLN (Outdoor Life Network) called Off The Grid with Les Stroud. This new and captivating show will highlight Les’ family’s move to their 150 acre bush lot with solar power, rain harvesting systems, and many new technologies for living an energy-conscious and self-sustaining life.
Im very excited for this, I love this kinda stuff. However I will have to purchase it, because we don’t get Canadian TV in the US :)
I just orderd it too
Hello all who are looking for the video of Les Stroud going “Off the Grid” , it is on Youtube as a 5 part series. I too, am going to order the video but if you want to watch before you get your copy, Youtube is the place to watch it in it’s entirety.
Take care, jd
please tell me where I can get a copy of the
“Off the grid” episode by Les Stroud that has already aired.
I saw your show. It was very interesting.
I would like to fine out more about the ATV accessories you used on the show. If you wouldn’t mind can you send me the name of the manufacturer, or a web site, so I find out more about those very unique accessories. Thanks
Off the Grid my arse….. do you realize how long he is going to have to live there to erase the carbon footprint he made by having a HELICOPTER fly in and out 8 times to deliver supplies!!!!!!
Give me a break…he could have lived off the grid with less impact on the environment by putting up solar panels in the home he had in the city!
Tori – No I dont know how long he will have to live there? How long will he have to live there to get rid of the carbon he put into the air? I am curious.
Tori, who cares about the carbon footprint! Living off the grid is about being self-sustained. I do love my Earth but I will not buy into Al Gore Bull****. You know a Hummer vehicle makes less emissions driving on the road for 20 years than the process and build of a Toyota Hybrid car. Something to do with the Hybrids battery.
Les Stroud RULES
I watched the first show and was disappointed. Les must have spent a fortune on helicopters flying in materials, prefabricated cabin, high falutin consultants for everything (do you really need to hire a design consultant for collecting rainwater? My Grandparents didn’t)great big honking trackhoe to dig a well, and I couldn’t guess how many truck loads of materials carted in. The control panel for the solar/wind generator looked like it cost $20,000 all by itself. I would really like to know what the total cost for everything amounted to.
I am so disappointed that we won’t have any more of “Survivor Man”, I could never miss a show and I’ve been waiting for the season to start so we can get Bear Grills off the air. we want him back!
I watched it already (in the US) and it was OK, I’d have liked a lot more detail.
Having a helicopter WAS a bit over the top, I have to believe it was not in the original shipping estimate. Most of us would have done this in the summer, as Les himself pointed out. But then I don’t have to squeeze it in between taping seasons of my TV show. And filming during the winter fits the Survivorman image.
The house (old carriage house) sits on bedrock, so how did they run water lines under the house? The frost line is probably 48 inches there. With the bedrock at 4 feet, how was he able to run lines from the well? Stuff like that i want to know.
Living off the grid means different things to all of us. For some it is their carbon footprint. For me it’s about the independance, both mine and the future generations of my family. So if I build an off the grid home and my family uses it for the next 80 years, and hopefully longer. I am sure I will, in the long run, reduce my carbon footprint by legacy more so than if I built a conventional home that stood for 80 years.
Good stuff Les.
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I would like to know what company you used to purchase the cabin kits up north/ I am in gravenhurst and looking for a place to buy one.
I watched the show, I totally enjoyed it… hmm wonder how its going up there with an outhouse in the winter time….haha one like that would be great
Hi, I just watched the program today and was fascinated by his family. I am wondering what his family is doing. Are they still on the 150 acres? It gets pretty lonely out there for teenagers I would imagine. How do you deal with that loneliness, especially with Les being away filming in other parts of the world. Or does he take his family to these other countries?
I was very impressed by his daughter and her obvious concern for nature and ecology and I’m wondering if she has pursued a deeper interest in natural science studies.
I just want to know more about his family and I cannot find anything on the net. I’m writing here as a shot in the dark really.
Does anyone know where updated info might be found…inquiring minds want to know.
Jackie Burns