Opportunities to live on beautiful, wilderness land with people who value freedom and living in harmony with nature.
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We offer opportunities to live on wilderness land in a condo-like, co-ownership structure. This allows us to form communities in remote locations, suitable for homesteading and permaculture design, close to crown land for hunting, gathering and fishing, where we can build a wider variety of dwellings, such as (but not limited to) tiny homes, log cabins, shipping container homes and other such dwellings with low-environmental impact on the land. Our communities’ dwellings adhere to Ontario Building Code and our communities provide an affordable solution to Ontario’s ongoing housing crisis.
ABOUT
Mission
Our mission is to launch off-grid communities, offering affordable land co-ownership opportunities in beautiful, wilderness locations.
Core Values
Our core values include environmental sustainability, community collaboration, bodily autonomy, consent, individual responsibility and individual freedom.
Vision
Our vision is to have a network of off-grid communities across North and Central-America on which members can live sustainably, and even nomadically, if they wish.
FOUNDERS
Guillermo Aristizabal P.Eng
CEO & Co-Founder
Guillermo studied and worked in the field of Mechanical Engineering for many years and is an experienced real estate investor. Since childhood, he has had a lifelong passion enjoying wilderness adventures, mountain biking, hiking, canoe tripping, backpacking and dreaming of living in a remote, off-grid cabin. In early 2020 Guillermo invested in a ½ acre off-grid wilderness site within a large intentional community, where sites quickly sold out. Impressed with the advantages of using this co-ownership legal structure of land ownership, Guillermo formed a company with Cathia Badiere and started Off the Grid Communities. His mission is to provide affordable off-grid wilderness land co-ownership opportunities to people, including friends and family.
Cathia Badiere
CFO & Co-Founder
Cathia studied Economics, Industrial Relations and Business Analytics and has worked as a labour market consultant, government policy advisor and director at a national union. During her years working in various offices, she always dreamed of more time outdoors and more time camping in the woods. Co-founding Off the Grid Communities with Guillermo Aristizabal was the perfect way to incorporate some of her favourite outdoor activities into her work life. Drawing from past experience in project management, policy analysis and report writing, Cathia manages finance and operations from property selection, government policy, marketing and customer service. In this role she is proud to take part in designing and founding sustainable communities, providing increased access to affordable places for Ontarians to live, in beautiful wilderness locations.
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