Communities
Off-grid groups - how to build a group and case studies of successful and unsuccessful groups of individuals who are off-grid together
Abuso fuera de la red
La historia impactante de Tara Westover, que cuenta en su libro de memorias recientemente publicado ‘Educated’ arroja una sombra inmerecida sobre las fami...
Lidiar con la Burocracia
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Barn shaped blueberry
Laura and Rory’s barn shaped blueberry tiny home, they designed it themselves, I love the little touches that makes it theirs. With clever ideas, they ...
Uninvited guests
They are back, the uninvited guests who arrive as soon as the weather turns warm enough. I’m talking about bugs, insects and arachnids. In the last few...
Keeping your cool
It’s hot here in the desert, but it’s dry heat (as they like to say), this is the time of the year when it gets really warm for us, hitting the h...
Stealth camper van
Living out of a van, for some that would sound like a nightmare, for others, a dream come true. To happily live in a van, you would have to be a minimalist, you...
Go away mosquito!
Is Zika a real problem, is it a man made disease, or is it just a smokescreen to deflect our attention somewhere else? I don’t know, what I do know is mos...
It’s not illegal to DIY
When I was a kid, electronics and appliances came ready for the end user to repair when necessary, radios and TVs had vacuum tube that you could replace, warran...
A woman living off-grid
As a woman living off-grid, I can speak definitively about this. But apparently I’m not the average woman. Many women I speak to, they tend to say things ...
Life updates in west Texas
Things have been going pretty well here in the SkyCastle, summer is definitely knocking, warm to hot days, cool to cold nights… The rainy season seems to ...
Solar panels Suspected cause of Fire
A spate of reports across the world pinpoint faulty solar installations as the cause of serious house fires. Badly installed isolators are just one of the possi...
Root cellars
With spring in the air, summer right around the corner, many of our gardens are booming with lots of produce, much of it we eat right away, but it’s nice ...