Off Grid How-To's

We built a wind generator to run our off grid home. Finding wind generator plans that we could download now actually proved to be the hardest part of the whole project.

My 12 year old son Andre’ and I had decided that we needed a 1000 watt wind generator. We looked at the price of wind generators and quickly found out that the $2000 price tag was not in our budget. Andre’s and I decided to build one!

This is an update on our report about how to build home wind generators- now we wanted it to look good. When visitors come to our homestead we want them to ask, “ Where did you ‘buy’ your new wind generator?” To which we would reply, “ Oh, we built that ourselves” as confidently as we could muster.

How To Get Off The Grid- A Step by Step Guide Many inquiries we receive are directed at how to get off the grid. When someone asks us how to get off the grid we have found that most times they are asking for a step by step guide.

For years we dreamed of owning our own home, but with lumber prices rising so fast we never got any closer to realizing our dream.

Lumber and material prices just kept rising faster than we could save money! We decided to build our own home instead. It was almost by accident that we discovered that by using a chainsaw mill we could realize that dream.

I walked into Blaine Oatman’s greenhouse and my world was forever changed. Outside it was blowing and cold, even for March; inside it felt like a warm June morning. All around me the smell of plants growing, some beginning to flower, and the smell of damp earth made me stop and take a deep breath.

Blaine had asked me to come over after school and help him and his wife Mae transplant seedlings from Boxed plant sales. For a 12 year old kid, the prospects of earning a few dollars long before summer part time job opportunities rolled around was lure enough.

One of the first things we had to learn when we moved to our present home was how to build a shed. We needed a place to store our outdoor items. It was relatively easy to learn how to build a shed as well. This project was a great place to start before we tackled bigger projects like a garage or house.

When Jane and I first moved to our property we wanted to learn how to build a greenhouse. It seemed like something was missing from our life. We had always grown our own spring transplants for our garden and now we wanted to learn how to build a greenhouse so we could do just that.

How To Build Your Own House. Are you looking for an easy to follow guide to how to build your own house? It was a dream of our family to do just that. Now we will show you how to build your own house.