Gardening

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. This past fall season has been a wonderful time for our family with the seeming extension of the [...]

Living Off The Grid Garden 2011- 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 [...]

Off The Grid – 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 Homestead Garden for Living Off The Grid

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 [...]

Living Off The Grid – 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 [...]

Living Off The Grid – 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 [...]