AMELIA BARRETT writes fiction and non-fiction. Her non-fiction book, Off Grid and Low Income arose out of years of personal experience In the late 1990s, she experienced a financial reversal that caused her to lose her home. Without the wherewithal to purchase another, and unwilling to rent, she bought raw land and began the process of making a home there. Off Grid and Low Income is the story of how she and her then-husband (now partner) learned the hard way about "going back to the land." When she isn't writing, the author keeps busy weaving, knitting, playing with her dogs, and, of course, r...