Off-Grid Summerfestival 2026
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Cutting your chains – from consumer to producer
Off-grid living refers to a self-sufficient lifestyle where you disconnect (fully or partially) from the financial debt economy, from public utilities like the electrical grid, municipal water, sewer systems, and sometimes natural gas. People choose it for independence, lower environmental impact, cost savings over time, or a deeper connection to nature.
Off-grid living isn’t just a practical lifestyle choice—it often becomes a deeply spiritual one. When you remove constant connectivity, consumption, and noise, something quieter but more profound tends to emerge.
At its core, the spiritual side of off-grid living is about reconnection—to nature, to time, to your fellow humans and to your spiritual self.
In this summer festival ALM brings together remote workers, retirees, preppers, environmentalists and anyone seeking to increase their freedom from centralized systems.
It is possible to follow the whole week or attend only one day.
Program
Thursday 16 July 2026
1. Objectivism and Agorism – from consumerism to productivity
Movie
The Fountainhead (1949, Gary Cooper / Patricia Neal)
Atlas Shrugged – three sequels from pirate sites?
Lectures
Introduction to the philosophy of objectivism – the virtue of selfishness
Introduction to the left-libertarian anarchist ideas of Samuel Edward Konkin III
Discussion
Going Galt: off-grid according to Ayn Rand: Galt’s Gulch / Atlantis (Atlas Shrugged). Becoming productive: Acquiring skills and capability, acquiring real wealth.
Abandoning a corrupted world, 3 strategies> fight (Dänneskjöld), undermine (D’Anconia), build (John Galt).
Settlements: Monte Libero, Penadexo, Hansedorp …
Activities:
What are your skills?
Paint your own Utopia
Make your very best philosopher Hugh Akston Hamburger
Reading the money speech
Play Monopoly
Listening Rachmaninoff’s 3rd piano concerto
Agora barter trade market.
Friday 17 July 2026
2. Small-and large scale production and enterprise
Enterprise
Humans are prone to be entrepreneurial. However, in societies with an extreme division of labor, basic human skills – and productive creativity – are often lost, resulting in a certain helplessness of the specialized individual. When his special skill becomes redundant, the modern educated individual is directed to a role of modest consumerism: Netflix and Chips.
At the same time, production of “sellable” goods is highly regularized, making enterprise a high-barrier undertaking for which special vehicles (companies) have to be set up. Individual patronage is highly unattractive and risky.
The man who has produced something by his own means realizes that the value of the product is of a completely different order than the products he buys from a retail shop. This kind of small-scale production belongs to an off-grid life.
Productivity and enterprise without government. Avoiding company registrations, OZO …
Lecture:
Multinational schemes, Free trade zones, tax havens, offshoring (Edwin)
Small-scale production
Production of Belgian Endive, mushrooms
Vegetal oils
Combucha
Basic construction and renovation
Transportation and mobility
Blacksmith skills
Connectivity and communication
Internet identification / anonymity – VPN, end-to-end encryption, Starlink, Linux, digital nomads, is living without a smartphone still possible?
Activities:
Install Linux on your laptop
Press vegetable oil
How do we stay in contact?
Make our newsletter
Saturday 18 July 2026
3. Free markets and money. Networking Free communes, cooperations and common services, bulk purchasing together
Money
What tradable assets are outside the financial grids? Barter trade, free markets, non-state backed money systems, what to do when you’re de-banked? Generating income when in a remote place. Off-site working, off-grid investment models, private contracts, (Paying with) gold and silver. Avoiding taxation, avoiding the debt trap.
Trading
Free market places on the internet, darkweb? TOR-protocols. Sharing resources in a community, barter networks, bulk purchasing (Bundl)
Activities:
Set up a Bitcoin wallet on your PC
Sunday 19 July 2026
4. Spirituality, psychology and Religion.
Living off-grid can mean that you’re more exposed to natural rhythms: sunrise, seasons, weather patterns. This can lead to a sense of reverence similar to what is found in traditions like Christianity, Buddhism or Taoism, where harmony among humans and the natural world is central.
Without constant digital input, your attention may shift. Everyday acts—chopping wood, collecting water, cooking—become grounding rituals. This aligns with ideas in monastic traditions or Zen Buddhism, where even mundane tasks can become meditative. You may experience a slower perception of time, increased mindfulness and greater appreciation of small things and moments.
With fewer distractions, you’re more likely to confront your thought patterns, your emotional habits and your sense of purpose. You may need to take care of your own weaknesses.
Interdependency: “off-grid” doesn’t mean independent—it reveals how dependent we actually are on land, weather, ecosystems and communities – on each other. This can foster humility and gratitude, echoing spiritual principles found in traditions that emphasize respect for ourselves, for others and for the divine spirit.
Manipulation
Avoiding psychological traps. Sects, gurus and empty promises. Feet on the ground while flying. Sharing experiences with manipulative circles and abusive relationships.
Activities
Experience simple meditation techniques
Prayer
How is living in a spiritual community, ev. visit a monastery
Exercise in solitude
Storytelling around the fireplace (garden/inside)
Monday 20 July 2026
5. Lifestyle and Health
Lifestyle and prevention
Living off-grid may mean much more physical work and maintenance, less consumption and becoming less prone to civilization diseases. However, “old” dis-eases may emerge: back aches, micronutrients deficiencies, … The role of sunlight, accustoming the body to temperature variances (sauna, ice man, …), the influence of humidity, prevention of foul and mold, basic hygiene and pest control. Environmental poisons (biocides, light-, noise- and air pollution, fine dust, electromagnetic fields, …). How to improve your immune system.
healthy aging, consuming less (but better).
The public health system
Obligatory medical insurance, conscientious objection, expat medical insurance, availability of pharmaceutical products and drugs, patents on drugs, generic drugs, cost vs. efficacy of drug treatments
Treating disease
Sense and nonsense of doing nothing and wait. Your body has its own pharmacy. Anthroposophy & medical insights. Herbal medicine, German New Medicine, knowledge of wilderness medicine, make your own medicine, tele-doctors/NTG, homeopathy, mens sana in corpore sano, supplements, avoiding the public health system, rest and healthy environments (e.g. the selection of the location of the antique hospital of Hippocrate, the Asklepion on Kos, geomancy), thermal baths. Shamanic and magnetic healing practices.
First aid
What to store in your home apothecary. First aid kit, bandages, bush medicine. First aid course, nursing, wound treatment, home remedies, community support networks.
Activities:
Establish a home apothecary
Establish your medical backup circle
Practical healing
Tuesday 21 July 2026
6. Prepping, Food autonomy and Shelter/Settlements
Prepping
Skills: basic plumbing, electrical, carpentry, survival packs and skills. stock keeping, bush survival tactics, personal safety, security, perimeter alarms, self-reliance in defense.
Food
Biodynamic farming, permaculture, food forest, homesteading, Growing your own food, how to keep chicken, livestock/cattle, how to hunt and fish,
Preservation: dehydrating, canning, root cellars, fermenting, smoking
Shelter / Settlements
Off-grid life ranges from rustic to high-tech.
Cabins, earthships, yurts, campers, living on a boat
Communities: eco-villages, sharing resources, barter networks, bulk purchasing
Emigration
Good reasons? Where to? What to leave behind, building a new future, finding or forming communities. Utopia and reality. Age and ageing-related topics.
Activities
Gardening together
Crossbow hunting demonstration
Fishing demonstration (pond)
Bee keeping demonstration
Visit-a-farm
Baking Bread
Barbecue
Wednesday 22 July 2026
7. Energy and water – utilities
Energy
Energy is a highly regulated and controlled commodity. Try to import and refine your own petrol, try to live without an electrical connection, try to generate your own biogas …
Energy autarky, solar panels, backup generators, battery banks, inverters DC-AC, Energy efficient appliances, reducing energy use, lower utility bills, propane/butane gas bottles, wood stoves, chopping your own word, transportation, heating and cooling. Waste to energy, biogas installations, methanisation
Electricity generation
PV, private wind mills, storage units, generator sets, private hydroelectrical power, animals …
Heating and Cooling
Off-grid heating systems, heat pumps, geothermic heat, wood stoves, pellet heating, propane LNG, storage systems, advantages of a cellar. Lightweight and heavyweight construction. Animal stable under the living room.
Water
(Drill)/Have your own water well, rainwater harvesting, water treatment (UV, filters), grey water use, waste water treatment, composting toilets,
Waste water
Small-scale waste water treatment. Septic tanks, village systems
Activities:
DIY compost toilet
DIY biogas generator
Build and operate a wood gasifier
Collect and chop wood
Location
Chateau de Hodbomont, Hodbomont 20, Theux, Belgium
Shuttle available from Pepinster or Theux Train stations
Accommodation
There are some rooms available at the castle.
Alternatively, participants can find accommodation nearby.
Contribution/cost:
Participation per day: €50 (including food/drinks)
Participation for the whole week: €300 (including food/drinks)
Accommodation: €75 per room per night (single occupancy) or €100 per room per night (dual occupancy)
Accompanying activities
Moving, sports, dance, making music, playing/games, gardening, BBQ, art, design, castle touchups, can all be parts of every day’s curriculum.
There are no house elves, so participants are required to participate in cleaning, cooking, helping out, catering, dishwashing, child care, pet care …
Continuous Agora every day, free market for products and ideas with an exposition of participant’s products and projects.
Weather dependency
Good weather: focus on outside activity
Rainy weather: focus on inside activity
More information
Please contact Edwin Delsing for more information:
For enrollment email . Upon receiving your enrollment, payment details will be provided.
Wanneer:
donderdag 16 juli 2026 09:00 uur tot woensdag 22 juli 2026 22:00 uur
Locatie:
Chateau Hodbomont
Hodbomont 20
Theux, 4910 Belgium
Meer informatie of aanmelden:
https://liberamentis.org/event/off-grid-summer-festival-2026/
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