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Woman off grid living6/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Currently based in a rented three-bedroom cottage on a two-acre farm near York, she teaches 60 people a week how to forage, make toiletries from natural ingredients and how to become fully self-reliant. In 2006, Diana opened the Wild Harvest School and now charges between £17.99 and £159 for courses she runs from a series of tepees pitched in the farmland surrounding her home. ![]() Maya, Noah and Matthias (Image: Collect/PA Real Life) I think self-reliance and forming resilient communities needs resilient individuals.” “I feel like I needed to parent my children in way where they could contribute to our society. I needed to learn the skills we’d need in a power down situation, so I could save them. They survived through the harsh winters by setting up fires and boiling water.ĭiana said: “After I had my first child, I was learning a lot about permaculture, which is based on understanding nature, and having kids made me passionate about their future. "I had got rid of everything and I was on this journey of freeing myself and connecting with nature.”ĭiana and her three young children, then aged between 18 months and seven, lived in a caravan for five years and all slept in one big double bed without heating or a TV. We had nature walks and ate the freshest and healthiest food. I just wanted to live in an environment which was conducive to their happiness. The divorcee said: “My kids are my entire life. Most of Diana’s income went towards paying for her children’s £20 a week private schooling at the Moorland Waldorf School in the North York Moors, which values childhood as a time of freedom, curiosity and discovery and was partially funded by the community. She started to give away appliances with less than two functions such as her toaster and kettle until she was left with just a bed, wardrobe and a sofa. ![]() “We were living in a coastal town, so I spent a lot of time in the back garden in our normal semi, where my dad used to grow things like sweetcorn, strawberries and rhubarb.”ĭespite her unusual upbringing, Diana recalled having a typical teenage life – going clubbing and going to university but that all changed after 1997, when Diana became increasingly drawn to “Doomsday thinking”.īy 2000, Diana was earning £80 a week for being her granddad’s carer and lived in a two-bed thatched cottage in Farndale in Ryedale. And I knew that it was possible to survive with very little.ĭiana in York (Image: Natasha Holland Photography/PA Real Life) The 50-year-old from York said: "This passion for prepping was born out of love for my children, as I wanted to make sure they could live well. Read more: 'I ate a two-course meal at Whitby's famous Magpie Cafe and left dumbfounded' Despite being vegetarian, she also showed them how to skin and butcher roadkill which they found and the family made their own soap and yoghurt and only went shopping occasionally. In 2005, she decided to move out of her two-bed thatched cottage and instead live in a 20ft caravan on a farm in the Yorkshire Dales which cost her just £50 a month.ĭiana was determined to equip her children with the necessary survival skills and taught them how to forage, preserve food, use an air rifle and survive in nature. While studying Criminology in 1997, Diana Hamill Page began to fear everything from a civil war to an economic collapse and worried about her children's future. A Yorkshire mum who once lived in a caravan and on £60 a week with her three kids is now earning £120,000 a year by teaching others how to survive an apocalypse. ![]()
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