Living Off the Grid Does Not Have To Mean Moving To a Remote Location
Summary: Living off the grid Living off the grid doesn’t have to mean moving to some remote location. You’ve probably heard people talking about it and wondered exactly what that meant. There are a lot of people who want to change their lifestyle and live off the grid these days. It is a chance to live […]
Continue readingWilderness Encounters
For many years we have tried to come up with the definitive answer to the question, “What does living off the grid really mean to us?”Yes, there is the energy savings from using renewable energy sources, wind generators we built ourselves and solar panels. There is the garden of course. And our off grid home […]
Continue readingOff Grid Meaning
Off The Grid MeaningI remember the first time someone asked us ‘ What does Off The Grid mean to you?’ The words did not come easy… the obvious non-connection to the grid always comes to mind, but there was (and is) so much more to it. Then came the question, after a few years when the off […]
Continue readingLiving Off Grid Our Early Years
In 1993 our family decided that we wanted to start living off the grid. It was a major decision in our lives, and the lives of 3 small children, but we knew it was time to give it a try. Back then we knew nothing about our new choices, or how they would affect the […]
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How The Weather Affects Living Off The Grid
We love watching the weather outside change, living off the grid has a new set of rules really, it is just that simple.The main factor that affects how much Renewable Energy that is produced at our home is the weather. If the sun is shining our solar panels are working non-stop to charge our batteries. […]
Continue readingGetting Started Off The Grid
For most of us the old saying, ‘the first step is the hardest’, really does apply to living off the grid. This is a big step for you and your family to consider. We know it certainly was for us. But getting started does not have to be difficult. There are lots of little steps you can take […]
Continue readingGardening in November?
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 […]
Continue readingHomestead Garden
For many years we were under the impression that gardening was something that you did only in the summer, but living off the grid has taught us that is not the case. The fall garden is now our favorite and this year is no different.The sun of fall is still strong enough to mature broccoli, cabbage […]
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Homesteading Off the Grid: Why We Did It and What We Learned
I remember the first time I discussed homesteading and 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…’ He spent most of his life tryong to get OFF the land. That was about 1 year before we moved. I was, in essence […]
Continue readingEntering 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 […]
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