27 YEARS Living Off-Grid on a Self-Built Island Homestead
Freedom Cove is a rare and very special place. It’s a man-made floating island that acts as a homestead, an art installation, and a home to Catherine and Wayne in Tofino, BC, Canada.
The project started with a small float home that was built using wood that had washed ashore after a storm, and since moving into it in 1992, they’ve gradually added new buildings, greenhouses, and an outdoor dance floor to create a fully off-grid, floating homestead where they can grow most of their own food, earn a living as artists, and reduce their environmental footprint.
They have used as much reclaimed material as possible, including the flotation technology that has been discarded from nearby fish farms over the years.
The site where they chose to settle in was chosen specifically because it had a fresh water source above sea level so they could have gravity fed water, and because the cove provided protection from winter storms.
They use a mix of solar panels, a generator, propane and firewood for their various energy needs, and they have a new microbial wastewater system that will allow them to fully purify their waste. Before that, they had a tank that could be emptied in open water like most boats and vessels do.
Catherine King and Wayne Adams are artists and carvers who make beautiful work and showcase some of it in their floating gallery.
If you’d like to visit Freedom Cove in Tofino, BC, you can book a tour with Browning Pass here:
Or you can reach out directly to Catherine and Wayne by email at:
freedomcove4@gmail.com
Special thank you to Shane for the good chats and the boat rides!
Thanks for watching!
Mat & Danielle
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Music & Song Credits:
All music in this video was composed, performed, and recorded by Mat of Exploring Alternatives.
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Mat and Danielle of Exploring Alternatives
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Float house construction photos provided by Catherine and Wayne from Freedom Cove
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I thought they would of addressed what the pink and blue theme is about
One person's trash is another person's treasure!!!!
Wow! An incredible life!
this is by far the most thought-out and beautiful homestead i have seen. so in awe with nature. incredible 🙂
This is beautiful, Loving that artworks, Blessed Be,
My comment is that… I'm speechles!
This is amazing and beautiful.
i feel bad for obvious pagans creating their own paradise not realising what is to come. a spiritual end to everything we've known. a swirling babylonian pole next to her 'dance' area, a pole of ashteroth.
look @ the ground at 0:46 … all chemical nitrates for artificial growth…
They don't care about the large footprint they're leaving on the environment and ecosystems around them? If they truly cared, they would just live in a small tiny home on land.
Absolutely amazing.!!! Sending love and blessings to you both. Xxx
What a beautiful life!
Amazing!
how is this legal ???? not everyone can go in some harbour and do this
What’s up with the background sounds at 9:01?????
They are gonna be too old for this very soon.
I like their way of living.💚💚💚
love it
I'm here for the dogs.
Who else is loving how these dogs make themselves comfortable during the interview
and fall asleep intermittently? What adorable little pups. Darling little dogs.
It's high risk and high reward.
I've seen this place, or something similar back in the 90's while on a trip. Must be scary during a storm!
Awesome fire
Probably growing hella skunky weed in that garden
Awesome!
so can we all live this way, NO, unrealistic……………..nice heliport by the way. Not so off the grid
I feel like Mr Rodgers would have visited this place.
Looks like something out of Farcry New Dawn..
Two words only for this….:" Simply Beautiful "
Nice to have a sunny day.
So beautiful, wow!
beyond jealous
Very cool….and very sad. These two people are the perfect example of being self-absorbed. Its all about them, and screw everyone else. Very sad.
Love it! Look how happy and relaxed they are..beautiful!
Beautiful very unique this is how we supposed to live very natural
I'm curious who she is "deeply grateful" to?
ah yest plastic and Styrofoam… just like nature 😀
This is cool.
I want to live there, also!
This is my dream also. Damn man this is so awesome! Ty for the inspiration.
This is amazing
No one deserves paradise.
I will have some blacks move I next door to them.
beautiful
Incredible
im guessing these people dont own the lake
..use coconut coir, perilite and vermiculite r toxic
how did you get permission to build and live on the river
i respect self-sustaining humans who aren't trying to make too much of a footprint on this planet!