Gardening

Spring in the Homestead Garden

Posted by on April 30, 2012 at 3:58 pm

Next week marks 18 years living off the grid for our family. We are always asked why we made this decision and why we stick to it more tenaciously each and every year. The answer is not easy to find, nor easy to express but those answers are usually found outdoors in our homestead garden [...]

April Gardening Video-Spring seed planting guide

Posted by on April 14, 2012 at 12:49 pm

One of our favorite things about our vegetable garden is extending the seasons for living off the grid. We did forget to mention in the video that it is supposed to rain tomorrow. Watch the video to see why that is important.

Living Off The Grid – Welcome Video 2

Posted by on November 30, 2011 at 4:07 pm

One of the most important aspects of living off the grid is our large garden. Watch the following video about the fall garden and learn to live off the grid. From the Living Off The Grid Homestead.

Your Garden – Does Your Life Depend on It?

Posted by on July 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm

After many years of living off the grid we have come to know what is really important in our everyday lives here. As spring turns to summer our focus changes to the garden. Our aim is to eat 3 meals a day with at least something from the garden, if not the entire meal being [...]

Entering the Spring Garden

Posted by on June 15, 2011 at 4:54 pm

Over the past 17 years of living off the grid one constant for us has been our large garden. We have employed a lot of time saving methods and by far the best one is the keeping of chickens. This is a picture of the portable hoop coop that we built that allows the chickens [...]

Why Grow a Garden?

Posted by on May 16, 2011 at 2:31 pm

One of the many questions we get in connection with living off the grid is, ‘why grow a garden?’ Doesn’t it make more sense to spend my time in my specialized career and just buy vegetables and fresh produce for my family? Granted, perhaps from an economic point of view this may be true. (strangely [...]

Our Homestead Garden

Posted by on February 4, 2011 at 4:34 pm

For many years we were under the impression that gardening was something that you did only in the summer, but living off the grid has taught us that is not the case. The fall garden is now our favorite and this year is no different. The sun of fall is still strong enough to mature [...]

In The Fall Garden

Posted by on February 1, 2011 at 5:55 pm

Living off the grid is not always easy, but the stress is usually imposed by ourselves, rather than the environment we live in. This past summer has been rather hectic and stressful for Jane and I at our off grid home. It is not a matter of things we created ourselves but reactions from friends [...]