Adventures in healthy, off-grid and self-sufficient living

Creating opportunities

We share the ups and downs of creating a healthy lifestyle. We invite you to join us and decide how you can live more sustainably and achieve your goals for healthy off-grid living.

About Paul, Kerrie and Satchitananda

Paul and Kerrie have been moving towards fully off-grid, sustainable, and self-sufficient living for over 20 years.

Paul

Paul is the true instigator of our off-grid adventures. It is thanks to his vision, research, and hands-on abilities that our life on Satchitananda has been so successful. He wears many of the practical hats - gardener, inventor, try-it-outer, animal wrangler and do-it-his-selfer. Almost anything (except maybe the mechanical stuff).

Kerrie

Kerrie largely moves around behind the scenes. She is responsible for any social media, website management and public relations. She is a qualified practitioner of Western Herbal Medicine with interests in Ayurveda, community herbalism, Indigenous plants of Australia, planning and managing activities. Generally, tags along on Paul's adventures.

Satchitananda

Satchitananda is the name of our property in South East Queensland. It is where all the adventures begin. This is where Paul's experiments take place. It is also our home so please respect it as such when you visit.

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Get in touch to help choose how we can support your journey.

CONTACT US

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Address

357 Glenhowden Rd, Harlin QLD 4314, Australia

Phone

+61403021194

Email

kerrie@ganael.com.au

Testimonials

I met Paul around 15 years ago when we visited Kerrie and he at Sat-Chit-Ananda. I had dreams of living resiliently. This means I didn’t want to be completely tied to grids and shops in order to live my daily life. None of us understood how much that visit would change my life.

We drank Paul’s home-made beer and ate his home-made cheese and biscuits. That was followed by home-made goats’ milk ice-cream. All of it being prepared on solar ovens and just on property. What an inspiration! This was a living example of what I wanted to achieve.
These days, I have reached my goals. They are different to Paul’s because I live in the city, on a tiny 600 square metre block with a big house in the middle of it. Despite the differences, I feel like Paul and I got there together. We talked about different approaches that could be tried and bounced ideas off each other.

Slowly, but surely, I got to the stage where I don’t care if the electricity is down. I supply electricity to the grid rather than relying on getting it. It doesn’t matter if the shops close for a week. I have plenty of food, fresh and home stored. If there is a drought, my food gardens will reduce but survive from the rainwater tanks. I can make cook my own foods. I make cheese, bread, sausages, alcohol and have options for store bought flour. Even in the city, Paul inspired and helped guide me to grid independence, even in a big house in the middle of the city.
I encourage everybody to take the journey to freedom with Paul. Remember to have as much fun reaching your goals and getting there.

Andrew Cumberland

McDowall Manor Tiny City Farm

Kerrie and Paul are really lovely people. I really liked to be with them. Their house and proprety are so special and they learnt me many things about living off grid, the animals, plants, the fruit forest or the vegetable garden. Each thing is thinking to be used perfectly to have no waste or to be reused. My stay has permit me to think out of my mind and discover a different way of living. That was a really great experience and something that I gonna remember for a long time.

Caroline D

France