Self-Sufficiency

It took 3 days, lots of sweat, nerves of steel, and a lot of that Archimedes factor to get a small travel trailer from one side of the creek to the other. Shoul...

…it’s coming to a station near you. I’m not one for doom and gloom, though anyone starting a sentence with “I’m not one for doom a...

Homemade pasta, it’s easy, it’s cheap, it’s tasty, did I mention it’s cheap? I had found several recipes on line for homemade egg noodle...

Before our big move off the grid, I did a lot of research to learn everything I could about living off-grid. I used the internet as my main source of informatio...

It seems that the “green” (or brown) movement is growing faster and faster. It used to be the realm of unwashed hippies, tree huggers and other so c...

Tankless Water HeaterLiving off the grid, and on the cheap, requires sacrifices, you do give up some conveniences. Some of the things I didn’t have when I first...

Being independent means doing things for yourself, seeing a need and instead of waiting for someone else to take care of it, the independent person would get cr...

Canadian second home stays warm in winter – full details of the renewable energy setup....

Web sites and gadgets you need to be self-sufficientish...

Inside story of the Utopia Experiment and why the volunteer recruits have taken over the project....

Ditchmonkey’s off the grid training camp tries fried grass snake for dinner...

Ditchmonkey shaves with a hunting knife in the latest installment of his off-grid diary...