Home What I Do The Work The Model Refusals Gift Circle Library Toolkits Current Ask
Our Shared Gifts

I'm Kevin.

I build things, fix things, and live off-grid near Grass Valley, California.

A converted bus off-grid home with solar and a motorcycle in golden dry-grass hills at sunset
Off-grid near Grass Valley — the bus, the bike, the solar. The whole setup, owned.

The bus — a 1995 school bus — is my house and my generator. The solar, about 2.6 kilowatts of it, runs the place and charges the motorcycle. The setup I built provides all of my personal infrastructure — and it was built with excess capacity on purpose, so the bus can offer itself as a mobile infrastructure node: off-grid community power, water, and ice. I weld, I build, I fix, and I figure out the problems no single trade owns.

I keep what I need to live small and owned, so I can do good work without money being the boss of me. That's the whole thing. Three reasons you might be here:

1

You need something built or fixed

Near here, and you'd rather not route it through a phone tree. Here's what I do, in plain terms, and how to ask.

What I Do → 2

You want to live this way

Off-grid, low burn, free as in not owned by the bills. The whole playbook — how I set the land up and how the money works — written down and given away. Free.

The Model → 3

You're wondering who I am

The real setup — the bus, the solar, the pump-and-tank, the things already running — told in stories, not a résumé.

The Work →

No path is required. Take the door that fits what you came for; leave the rest.

There's a body of theory under all this, if that's what you came for — the Library.