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Living Off The Grid – Welcome Video 2

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 growing season. One of our great challenges with being off the grid is growing food for the entire year.

This year the season has grown much longer than normal, as you probably saw in the previous video. Our garden truly is a focal point of our life, and for good reason.
With just a simple amount of foresight you too can extend your season.
Watch the video first and you will see what we mean. Why not try a bit of garlic in your own garden, or overwintered onions if you live in a warm enough climate. Garlic is one of those vegetables that anyone, regardless of skill can grow.
You will notice also, that I use the word lazy, for lack of a better reference to describe our gardening approach. Some people work like mad to get all of the weeds out, but you will notice we leave as much as possible, clearing only enough space to do away with close competition weeds.
Living off the grid can be a lot of fun, or it can be a lot of work if you let those small chores get out of hand. We prefer to leave the work to natural processes, which do the job much better, although perhaps a little slower. It seems to work very well for us here. The extra composting material may seem unsightly to some, but it’s just another excuse to have everything clean as a kitchen floor?
We prefer to work with the natural cycles of the seasons, let the compost worms do their job and leave the rest to winter to accomplish.
If you take the time to clear everything with a rototiller it does seem to overwork the soil as well.
Take a few minutes off and just let it go, you do have better things to do than to presume to do the job of nature.
Thus comes the description of lazy as described in the video, some think that is the case, I prefer to let those soil critters do their job, while I watch.
Part of the fun of living off the grid we think.

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3 Responses to "Living Off The Grid – Welcome Video 2"

  • antonio miclavez says:
    December 1, 2011 at 3:28 am

    thank you for your nice ideas on how to live off the grid
    for a better world
    Antonio and Pamela

  • Dean Weber says:
    March 5, 2012 at 12:43 am

    Really enjoy your off the grid website. Good Idea on making use of last years walkway. What is the advantage of planting garlic in single rows vs wide row?

    • les1 says:
      March 5, 2012 at 2:41 pm

      Thanks Dean, we like to offer our unique perspective for gardening off the grid. With garlic it does not need much space, why would you want to use a 42 inch row? So that you could roto till constantly? You are going to hoe through it anyways, why not make the rows touch and then you eliminate one job and have more room to grow other vegetables in that valuable space.