Self-Sufficiency

Retained Heat CookingHave you heard about hot box, hay box or cook box cooking? It’s the new-old way to cook that saves energy, improves flavor and increases th...

Alive and wellHere is an update on what has been going on in our off-grid life. I know I haven’t written in a while, I took a mini-break from blogging and...

I’ve been going back over the first pictures we took of our cabin, before it was renamed the sky castle, it’s hard to believe we have done so much w...

Now I’ve gone and done it, (a Texas phrase), this is such a rare thing to happen to me, I am sick. There I said it. About 4 days ago I could feel my throa...

The other day I was talking to a friend and we touched on the subject of the Pump-n-Seal gadget , I have had mine for a while, but I must admit that I haven&#82...

Here’s an update on what has been going on with us. Things have been going pretty well, we have been living here, 100% off-grid for a year and a half. We ...

Today I made another batch of laundry soap. I had ran out about a month ago, I was using the leftover powdered store bought soap, wow is there a difference! Whe...

We do live in extreme times and it seems to be getting worse. Today I received an email contained a link to a Fort Worth (Texas) newspaper, they wrote an articl...

It’s been a while since I’ve written an update on what we are doing on the cabin, so this time I’ll write about concrete, or more accurately s...

Judd PalinThe clean-up crews are slowly moving in to deal with the smoking craters and ecological detritus of the Bush years. The latest teams actress Ashley Ju...

Getting the trailer up the hill and past the boulders and trees was more challenging than we thought it would be, but when you have to do something, then you fi...

It seems that "someone" is trying to prove that free range chickens are no better or possibly worse than caged chickens. Ok, here is an excerpt from a...