Living Off The Land

Living Off The Land Ice Fishing Basics

Posted by on January 31, 2012 at 6:36 pm

When we first moved and began living off the grid we had never really even considered ice fishing as a means to provide for our family. I have to tell you that I simply love fishing. My earliest childhood memories are of sitting on a pier with my dad and casting out my line to [...]

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 [...]

How To Live Off The Grid – Welcome Video

Posted by on November 25, 2011 at 4:35 pm

Hello, The following video is an introduction to living off the grid. You will see a new video every week showing you our life and how to live off the grid. Our aim is to show you that we live what we talk about here. How to live off the grid, watch the video now> [...]

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 [...]

Getting Started – Living Off The Grid

Posted by on May 5, 2011 at 3:12 pm

For most of us the old saying, ‘the first step is the hardest’, really does apply to living off the grid. This is a big step for you and your family to consider. We know it certainly was for us. But getting started does not have to be difficult. There are lots of little steps [...]

What does Living Off The Grid mean to You

Posted by on February 16, 2011 at 7:33 pm

I remember the first time someone asked us ‘ What does Living Off The Grid mean?’ The words did not come easy… the obvious non-connection to the grid always comes to mind, but there was (and is) so much more to it. Then came the question, after a few years when the off grid movement [...]