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Living Off The Grid – Welcome Video 2

Published on November 30, 2011 By les1

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

Published on November 25, 2011 By les1

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> [...]

How To Get Off The Grid – A Positive Move for Your Family

Published on November 1, 2011 By les1

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 [...]

Living Off The Grid and the US Debt Ceiling

Published on August 8, 2011 By les1

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 [...]

Growing Chickens Off The Grid

Published on July 29, 2011 By les1

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.

Living Off The Grid Garden 2011- Does Your Life Depend on It?

Published on July 19, 2011 By les1

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 [...]

Off The Grid – Entering the Spring Garden

Published on June 15, 2011 By les1

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 [...]

Living Off The Grid – A Home not an Investment

Published on June 15, 2011 By les1

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 [...]

Why Grow a Homestead Garden for Living Off The Grid

Published on May 16, 2011 By les1

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 [...]

Homesteading Self Sufficiency

Published on May 5, 2011 By les1

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 [...]