Off Grid Deliveries: Your Lifeline to Town — Food, Water, Feed, Rides & More

We've already served a handful of clients and we're just getting started. This is a real service in the building phase — and we'd love your help growing it.

🚚 The Problem Every Off-Gridder Knows

Your car breaks down. The feed store is 45 minutes away. You need water, groceries, and a propane refill — and you have no way to get there.

Or maybe your vehicle is fine, but the cost of running it isn't. Gas, maintenance, tires, repairs — for people living off-grid or in rural communities, car ownership is one of the single biggest ongoing expenses of the lifestyle. And when something goes wrong, it doesn't just cost money. It costs days.

What if your community could help shoulder that burden together?

🌿 Introducing Off Grid Deliveries

Off Grid Deliveries is a community-powered delivery and transportation service built specifically for off-grid homesteaders, rural residents, and anyone who lives more than a quick drive from the things they need.

Think Uber Eats — but for 3- or 4-hour rural round trips. And not just food. Anything you need.

We currently serve St. Johns and Show Low, Arizona — and we're actively growing.

🗓️ Order Cutoffs, Schedules & How to Order

We run scheduled delivery routes to keep costs low and bundled for everyone. Here's exactly how it works — no surprises:

📱 How to Place an Order

The easiest way to reach us is to text us at 928-270-5027. You can also fill out the contact form or email twinoutlooks@gmail.com. We aim to reply within 3–5 business days, but texting is the fastest way to reach us.

Missed the cutoff? Text us anyway — we'll do our best to squeeze you in, but we can't guarantee it once the order is placed with suppliers.

🚚 We Love to Bundle — It Saves Everyone Money

If you have items coming from both St. Johns and Show Low, we'll bundle them into a single delivery whenever possible. For example, if you're getting lumber from Show Low and a food box on Tuesday, we'll combine those into one run — saving you on delivery cost and saving us a trip.

That said, urgent or direct deliveries are always available — just let us know what you need and when, and we'll work out the best option together.

🍲 Free Food Box Program — We'll Bring It to You

One of the most meaningful things we do is pick up free community food boxes in town and deliver them directly to you. Here's how it works:

• 📦 The food is free — we pick up available food boxes from town on your behalf.
• 🚚 Delivery fee: $50 — this covers the driver's time, fuel, and the round trip to get it to your door.
• ❄️ Cold and frozen items stay that way — we keep refrigerated items cold and frozen items frozen during transport.
• 🗓️ Food Box pickup: every other Tuesday — order must be placed by Sunday at 5:00 PM.
• 🚦 Prefer same-day? Meet us at the crossroads and collect your box the same day — no wait, no delivery fee.
• ⏱️ Standard delivery: 1 to 2 days after pickup day.

🛒 Shop Our Off Grid Deliveries Collection

Browse everything currently available for delivery — bottled water, bulk water, animal feed, supplies, and more. Don't see what you need? Just ask — we'll do our best to source it.

🛏 Browse the Off Grid Deliveries Collection →

📦 What We Deliver & Provide

This isn't a pizza delivery service. We handle the real stuff that keeps a homestead running:

• 🍝 Groceries and food — fresh, shelf-stable, whatever you need from town
• 💧 Water — hauled to your property when your supply runs low
• 🐔 Animal feed and livestock supplies — heavy bags and bulk orders delivered to your gate
• 🛠️ Materials and hardware — lumber, fencing, tools, parts — if it fits in the vehicle, we'll bring it
• 💊 Medications and pharmacy runs — because health doesn't wait for a good travel day
• 🚗 Rides to and from town — doctor appointments, errands, supply runs, you name it
• 🔧 Emergency supply runs — when your car breaks down and you still need to keep the homestead going
• 📦 Co-op order pickups — Bulk Supplies Co-Op orders, Fiber & Fabric donations, and more
• Whatever you need — if you're stuck, call us and we'll figure it out.

🚌 The Bigger Vision: A Rural Bus Route

Deliveries are just the beginning. The long-term vision is a community bus service — regular scheduled routes connecting rural neighborhoods to St. Johns, Show Low, and beyond.

• 🚌 Scheduled bus routes to St. Johns, Show Low, and surrounding rural communities
• 🚗 On-demand ride service for appointments, emergencies, and supply runs
• 🚚 A growing communal fleet — more vehicles, more coverage, more reliability
• 🔒 Safety and security built in — vetted drivers, tracked routes, community accountability

🤝 How It Works — Drivers & Riders

🚗 Sign Up as a Rider / Customer

• Text 928-270-5027 or fill out the contact form
• Tell us what you need, where you are, and when you need it
• We confirm the run and match you with a driver
• Pay a fair rate — no corporate markup, no surge pricing

🚚 Sign Up as a Driver

• Have a reliable vehicle and some time? Earn by serving your community
• Set your availability, service area, and the types of runs you'll do
• Keep the majority of what you earn — small coordination fee keeps the platform running
• We need drivers in St. Johns and Show Low right now

💰 Why This Makes Financial Sense

A single rural round trip to town — gas, vehicle wear, your time — can easily cost $40 to $80 or more. Weekly, that's $2,000 to $4,000 a year just in transportation. Sharing those trips through Off Grid Deliveries spreads that cost across households. Everyone pays less. Everyone gets more.

🌐 Part of the Graceful Homesteading Ecosystem

• 💰 Bulk Supplies Co-Op — we deliver your co-op orders so you don't have to make the trip.
• 🐔 Livestock & Local Food Co-Op — heavy feed deliveries right to your farm gate.
• 🧵 Fiber & Fabric Co-Op — pick up and drop off clothing donations without a special trip.
• 🌵 Off Grid Luxuries — our St. Johns hub is a natural staging point for delivery runs.
• ⚡ Waste to Watts Co-Op — we help transport organic waste to processing sites on regular routes.
• 🏡 Roots & Acres Land Co-Op — connecting farmers on co-op land to supplies and services they need.

Every co-op makes the others stronger. Off Grid Deliveries is the connective tissue that ties them all together.

🌱 Get Involved Right Now

• 🚚 Want to drive? Text 928-270-5027 or email twinoutlooks@gmail.com — we need drivers in St. Johns and Show Low now.
• 📦 Need a delivery, food box, or ride? Text us or fill out the contact form. We'll get back to you within 3–5 business days.
• 💵 Want to invest in the fleet? Early investment goes directly toward more vehicles and more coverage.
• 🌐 Want to bring this to your region? We're looking for partners to replicate this model in other rural communities.

Nobody should have to choose between living the life they love and having access to the things they need. Let's build the infrastructure that makes both possible — one delivery, one ride, one neighbor at a time. 🌿

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