Food
How to be self-sufficient eating, cooking, and living off the grid.
Prepping on a budget, part 2 – book review
While scouring the internet looking for ways to be more self sufficient, I ran across a great (new to me) author, her name is Susan Gregersen. As I dug deeper a...
Prepping on a budget, part 1 – food
With prices on everything going up and our earnings going down, many of us are living on the edge, some of us are only one paycheck away from being homeless. Ri...
Freezer to fridge conversion
Living off-grid, I get questions from time to time, mainly about how we live, some even think we must live in a cave and eat dirt and wear skins… I said ...
Garlic for a self-sufficient garden
Garlic is an essential ingredient in any situation where you have no access to antibiotics – or cannot afford them. Buy heads here for your garden. Turn it into...
Growing food in a drought
The crops got a little drink in the US today but the drought is still severe. It looks like the combination of extreme heat and little rain will send food price...
Food price crisis looms
Just a few weeks ago traders were expecting a bumper food crop in 2012, and prices were low. But now a 2008-style food crisis is just around the corner – threat...
12-volt fridges
It’s the ultimate off-grid luxury – the sun is baking, dust is caking the back of your throat….. you reach into the DC Cooler for a cold beer. And it comes out ...
Aquaponics greenhouse for $50 – DIY
You live in a small urban dwelling – an apartment with a balcony or rooftop, or in a house with a tiny yard. So how can you make a small step towards self-suffi...
US Army speeds up move off-grid
The recently unveiled Army Energy Initiatives Task Force has launched its most ambitious project yet: a 50-megawatt biofuels power plant on Schofield Barracks, ...
Pledge to our film on kickstarter.com
We have just launched a Crowdsourced project on Kickstarter.com. OFF THE GRID AND ON THE CLOUD is a documentary about how Off-Grid living combines ancient wisdo...
Vancouver preppers get their own store
For Vancouver residents who want to eliminate the global industrial food complex from their diet, help is on the way. Rick Havlak’s Homesteader’s Em...
Williams-Sonoma move into urban homestead market
Urban homesteading, growing or raising a portion of your own food, has become so fashionable that upscale cookware company Williams-Sonoma introduced the Agrari...