Self-Sufficiency
News and guides on how to be self-sufficient and live off the grid.
Early Spring Garden
It is rare for us to be able to plant our garden before April 15 but, in rather shocking fashion, spring weather is upon us here in Canada nearly a month ahead ...
Australia falling for Earthship marketers
Boasting an outer shell made of stacked car tyres packed with earth, an Earthship claims to be a cutting-edge, sustainable green home made from recycled materia...
Doomsday business is booming
Be it the Mayan prophecy, Peak Oil or Global flooding, there is big money in the coming collapse...
The hows and whys of going off-grid
So you wanna go off-grid… now what? How far do you wish to go? There are lots of decisions to be made when you are deciding your future. Are you on your o...
A preparedness shopping list
Preppers a real boost to the canned goods industry...
Seed catalogs
It’s the middle of winter, cold, dreary, but something I start receiving in my mailbox makes me long for the warm days of spring, the seed catalogs. Those...
Ten low-tech gadgets
The yearlyInternational Consumer Electronics Show (CES), has seen off another round of headlines about lust-inducing gadgets soon to be on store shelves. Some s...
Upgrading a small solar system – video
I just love learning how other people live off-grid, especially when they are doing it in a very similar way to how I live. LaMar Alexander has done all of this...
British Preppers
Numbers growing fast and spending big money on supplies...
An overview of the last 4 years living off-grid
This December will be 4 years for us living 100% off-grid, I can tell you it’s been quite the adventure, my only regret is that we didn’t do this ea...
The Roundhouse at Druidstone
Detailed description of how to turn an old stone cottage into an eco-dwelling...