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 [...]
Is living off the grid right for me? You might be wondering why anyone would choose such a lifestyle. Are they hermits, loners, anti-social, escaping from something, or just plain stupid to deny all of the benefits of urban life. The truth is that most people who assume these things about us, have no real [...]
Sometimes I think it’s not very important to be good at the basic skills for living off the grid. Things like chopping wood, growing a garden or even fishing are all things I sometimes take for granted as they have been part of my life for so long. But, then usually just as I start [...]
Hi, My name is Valerie Rogers and here is our story of living off the grid. When we moved from Minnesota to New Mexico almost 11 years ago, we had the intent to seek self-sufficiency. We heard plenty of folks talk about going solar but never actually doing it. For the first five years here [...]
One aspect of living off the grid that we get asked about often is our recommendations for mobile options for charging electric devices such as cell phones, laptops and tablets. We think we have found a really interesting solution, that we have been testing ourselves, for when you are off the grid.
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 [...]
We were recently asked about living off the grid, and what we really think is important in making the move. In the email specifically we were asked how to get off the grid. It really is hard to know exactly what this fellow asking the question really had in mind. It all started with an [...]
One of the many things we have learned here at the Living Off The Grid Homestead is that we are usually better off than most people when a disaster hits. Whether it is a natural or man-made disaster by providing for yourself in a self sufficient manner you can definitely weather the storms. One of [...]
It may seem strange but one of the things we enjoy most about living off the grid is growing chickens. Strange that the simple act of keep a few birds should be so liberating or make us feel good about our decisions but it does.
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 [...]
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