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Off-grid groups - how to build a group and case studies of successful and unsuccessful groups of individuals who are off-grid together

Phantom loads
CommunitiesMay 10, 2014

Phantom loads

Sounds like something that should be discussed during October, it is scary, but not in a paranormal way…. a phantom load is simply electricity that is bei...

Dry canning crackers
CommunitiesMay 9, 2014

Dry canning crackers

One of the things many of us do is buy up deals and sales at the store or buy in bulk from the big box clubs, it’s a good thing as long as you can use wha...

Another cool tiny home
CommunitiesMay 3, 2014

Another cool tiny home

If This House Doesn’t Look Like Much To You, Wait Til You Go Inside. I Love Everything About This. After spending years in the rat race, with their lives revolv...

Dark Market – the Internet you need to know
CommunitiesApr 27, 2014

Dark Market – the Internet you need to know

Uninformed media reports of the ‘DarkMarket’, tout it as a new system – a Silk Road the FBI could never seize. In fact its not new, and has be...

Forest Service use Eminent Domain to seize off-grid home
CommunitiesApr 27, 2014

Forest Service use Eminent Domain to seize off-grid home

Andy and Ceil Barrie chose a retreat property far off the beaten path. They spent time and money developing the early C19th cabin in the White River national fo...

A tale of two smallholdings
CommunitiesApr 24, 2014

A tale of two smallholdings

The contrasting fortunes of two British smallholdings are a useful guide on how to succeed, and what NOT to do, if you are planning to grow your own food. In Ea...

Its not selfish to live off-grid
CommunitiesApr 21, 2014

Its not selfish to live off-grid

https://www.off-grid...

New golf cart batteries
CommunitiesApr 20, 2014

New golf cart batteries

Today was the first full day on the new batteries, we had everything hooked up to them, including the new chest freezer to refrigerator conversion, about a mont...

Off-Grid hiccups
CommunitiesApr 13, 2014

Off-Grid hiccups

A while back my current deep cycle batteries began to get weak, they would charge up quickly and not hold much of a charge, unfortunately the batteries are the ...

Building an off-grid village
CommunitiesApr 11, 2014

Building an off-grid village

I had an article on the Guardian web site today about a plan to build an off-grid village. It’s a very difficult thing to do in the UK because the powers-that-b...

It’s garden time!
CommunitiesApr 11, 2014

It’s garden time!

I grew up watching gardening shows on PBS, one of my favorites was the Victory Garden, and during pledge week, they would always have Howard Garrett and Jerry B...

The Truffle
CommunitiesApr 4, 2014

The Truffle

I enjoy looking at alternative, different housing, this is pretty different, both in the materials, design and building methods. I ran across this on FaceBook a...