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Nov 11
17
How To Build A Stone Wall
Here at the off grid living homestead we love to use materials that we have on hand and create something lasting and permanent. One of our favorite jobs, one that lets us use our creative side more than you would first imagine is learning how to build a stone wall.
The simple process of putting one stone on top of another and binding the mix with mortar or concrete is both satisfying and demanding at the same time. For those of you contemplating self sufficient living any and all building skills can be learned. Here is how you get started.
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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 email about off the grid in the city, and it went like this. This person was having trouble downloading our guide book and asked us to send him a link, which we gladly did. At the end of the email they explained that they wanted to read it when they were ‘off the grid’ with only their notebook computer as a companion. It really made us wonder if this person really knew what they wanted.
If they were convinced that learning how to get off the grid was just a matter of unplugging your home phone then they were in for a bit of a shock.
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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 my favorite topics of discussion is Economics. I don’t claim to be an expert in the field but it is one of my passions and I follow closely the news in this area… why?
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Jul 11
29
Growing Chickens Off The Grid
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.
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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 grown here.
It may be a bit of a lofty goal but most days (even those hot lazy days of summer) we achieve our aim here at the off the grid homestead. Why is it so important to focus on this seasonal bounty.
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Jun 11
15
Entering the Spring Garden
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 to be rotated around the garden.
Chickens are by far one of the most hardy and self sufficient animals that you can grow, they are very adept at living off the land, perhaps better than any other. We just provide them with a little supplementary food and water and they give us eggs, fertilizer and they keep the weeds and grass clipped too. They are an amazing part of our off the grid plans.
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Ever since we started living off the grid we have noticed a very prevalent opinion that goes something like this – ” your home is nice, but how would you ever sell it?”
We used to get kind of irritated at the question as being off the grid has given us the option of not looking at our home as an investment at all.
We built the house as our own, without any thought of selling it.
Recently it has become all the rage to flip a house for profit. Buy it, fix it and sell it.
And keep doing it until you are rich presumably.
That’s fine if you really like building and want to look at your home as a business, but does that make it a home? For the most part it doesn’t.
It is really difficult to translate the intangibles about living off the grid and how we look at our home differently than most.
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May 11
16
Why Grow a Garden?
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 I was an Economics major in University) But pure economic theory would have us always working at our specialized jobs and never ever at other pursuits. To us this unbalanced life is very detrimental to both happiness and family life.
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May 11
5
Homesteading Self Sufficiency
I remember the first time I discussed homesteading self sufficiency and living off the grid with my dad.
He looked at me kind of strange and said ‘ there’s no money in farming…’ That was about 1 year before we moved.
I was, in essence trying to explain a decision that was already made up for Jane and I. In retrospect I probably did not do a very good job.
The difference between farming and trying to make a profit at farming, and homesteading self sufficiency are like night and day. I did my best to explain about growing our own food and building our own home.
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