Prefab homes are ideal for anybody who wants a house for a relatively cheap price, in fact, a lot of people living off the grid tend to do it in a prefab house. Prefab houses in addition to being extremely …
A lot of people who live off the grid or on a homestead tend to use a composting toilet, mostly because a composting toilet is their only option for disposing of their own waste. Although composting toilets do work great, …
One of the main things that a lot of people who want to live off the grid tend to forget about is what kind of off grid toilet they will use. While some people choose the old-fashioned and reliable septic …
Building a house off the grid comes with a lot of challenges, and there are a lot of small things that you will most likely overlook. You can simply not compare building a house off the grid and a house …
Having wet firewood during the wintertime has to be one of the most infuriating things, especially if took really good care of your firewood and you have seasoned it long enough to be dry. Only for something as common as …
How you store your firewood during the winter will either make using the firewood extremely easy, or you could simply ruin the entire firewood cord. Ideally, firewood should be stored outside, even during the wintertime, although that doesn’t mean that …
Living off the grid means that you will likely heat your home with firewood during the winter. Although firewood is not that expensive to buy, but there are several ways of getting firewood for free. The main reason why you …
Not all firewood is equal this is true both in terms of their heat output and how they smell. A good smelling firewood doesn’t necessarily mean that is good firewood, although there are a couple of wood types which in …
Most people think that what kind of food they burn doesn’t really matter as long as they burn for a long time and they make a lot of heat. The truth is that there are a couple of types of …
The transition to an off grid lifestyle can be fairly difficult especially if you are doing it from a city. There is so much new stuff that you will have to learn even before moving to an off grid homestead, …
