Self-Sufficiency

Whatever your views on the Arab-Israel conflicts, and on the Hamas atrocities of October 9th, nobody can no doubt that the humanitarian crisis demands immediate...

The tragic war in Gaza has left hundreds of thousands off the grid  – with no water or power and very little food. Off-grid has obtained exclusive footage...

A MAN who gave up his normal life to live off the grid with his family has revealed how – and why – he did it. Fraser, his wife Rachael and their ch...

ALL over the world, governments are handing farmers green subsidies in the form of carbon credits for certain types of planting and land management that sequest...

Yes, you can use the material from a composting toilet to fertilize your plants and it has an honourable tradition. In eighteenth century Japan, human excrement...

I appreciate today’s short attention span theater, I have a lot to say about kefir. If you want the short version, scroll down, you’ll see it. ? We ...

OffGrid at Nagaland...

Its time to stop looking at the thousands of people who live in off-grid communities as strange throwbacks. They are the future, not the past. (If you have come...

With one phone call, I’ve accidentally ended up in a survival caravan fit out for a nuclear holocaust. But within days, I’m converted, and perhaps y...

For years North Korea has sought to be a nuclear power.  Now it is thought that the hermit nation has another weapon which could wreak havoc on our electricity,...

There was a time when if you wanted to learn how to do something, especially a trade, you found the person with the most knowledge and you apprenticed under the...

When I picture raising chickens, it’s always free range (of course!), I see a farmer walking through a flock of hungry chooks tossing handfuls of grain on...