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Grid-adjacent living starts here—a real-estate–first path to more control over food, energy, water, and shelter without disappearing off the map or going broke.
I’m Paul Burgess, a real estate broker in California and Oregon and the author of The Resilience Experiment: Money & Meaning in the Middle of Nowhere.
This site is the hub for the playbooks, checklists, worksheets, and digital guides we’ve built while living a grid-adjacent life at the ranch at the river bend.
Real estate, resilience, and the life between grid and wild.
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Start with the Flight Tower Free Vault
The Flight Tower Free Vault is where this community begins.
Inside you’ll find three core tools:
– A 72-Hour Emergency Disruption Plan so short-term shocks are an inconvenience, not a crisis
– The Housing Hierarchy to think more clearly about where you live and what options it gives you
– Married to the Grid, a guided look at who’s really in charge when the power, water, and supply chains wobble
I’ll keep adding new resources here over time as the Flight Tower project grows.



The Resilience Experiment: Money & Meaning in the Middle of Nowhere
If you want the full story, start with The Resilience Experiment: Money & Meaning in the Middle of Nowhere. It’s where I lay out the grid-adjacent framework: money, meaning, and resilience in the space between city and wilderness.
What you’ll design:
Energy that doesn’t blink
A simple load map, quiet battery strategy, and sane generator windows—so the lights stay on without your life revolving around them.Water you control
Seven-day storage, gravity filtration, and small-scale catchment that fits into a normal life, not a TV show.Food you can eat and trade
Two reliable crops, a working pantry, and preservation that actually pays off.A 3-lane income highway
Planted, portable, and professional income lanes, so the property can pull its weight—and you can pull yours.A week you can repeat
A 7-Day Rhythm Map and a basic Neighborhood OS so your life doesn’t fall apart the second something goes sideways.
Grid-Adjacent Starter Kit
When you’re ready to turn ideas into a concrete short-term plan, the Grid-Adjacent Starter Kit gives you the tactical side: a focused guide, worksheets, and vault access to start putting the grid-adjacent framework to work where you are.
What’s inside the Starter Kit (Digital – $9):
Grid-Adjacent: The Exit Strategy (Guide)
The companion book that walks you through applying grid-adjacent principles to your current life and planning your next moves.Worksheets & Checklists
A current-state and disruption snapshot
A simple 30–90 day action planner
Inventory and contact prompts so you stop trusting your memory
Savings/“storage” style worksheet to shift money from “barely getting by” to “shock absorber”
Vault Access
Ongoing access to a private digital Vault where these tools live and where I’ll continue to add refinements and additions to the kit.
Built for people who don’t just want a philosophy—they want a plan they can actually run.

Our Story
The Ranch at the Rivers Bend is where The Resilience Experiment took place—our real-world test of living a little less dependent on the grid, on a river property in Northern California.


































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