Spring Starts in February
If I were to do an honest year-in-review post it would look something like this: January through April we put in the chicken field and started the summer garden. Fruit trees were planted, perennial herbs were thrown in the ground. May brought news of a new babe and thus began the usual season of morning…
"I would think you would be really depressed if you went from this way of life back to the way we used to live," The Papa said the other day while we had lunch with friends. Looking back at our life just over three months ago the contrasts are huge. Where once there was electricity…
Every once and awhile I run across an off-grid tool that promises a lot and actually delivers. These gems are few and far between since most products today oversell and underwhelm. So it is with some excitement that I finally get around to writing about the best off-grid flashlight I’ve ever used. The flashlight…
I don’t really know why but for some reason I haven’t been taking my camera with me as we go about our usual weekly chores and projects. It is for that reason alone I haven’t shared a garden or meat bird update so I figured I’d gather together what photos we do have from the…
Sometimes people ask us what it looks like to live off-grid. Like many words, it has different meanings depending on who you talk to. Our version of off-grid infrastructure has had many iterations in the five years we’ve lived here and where we are at currently is probably the most workable it has ever been….
Gravity-fed water means one of two things: either our house goes down or the water tank goes up. In our case, the water tank had to come up. On flat ground, everyone got into the action – even little Ruthie who somehow became the one-shoe wonder at some point. (Stewart is on the other side…
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