Self-Sufficiency

500 square feet, for some, that’s a decent walk in closet, but not for this couple, Robert Cole and his partner Kelly Casthena, they live there with their...

Or, what could possibly go wrong? I found this posted on a homesteading FaceBook page, this is probably one of the most honest assessments of the reality of a y...

Winter 2007 The wind was blowing a gale, harder than any wind I have even been in before. The walls were shaking and rattling, threatening to blow over any mome...

Spring 2007 “What do you think?” PB asked with a hopeful look on his face. “What about your job? Our families? Your kids were born in this tra...

I have a great love for small homes and portable homes, many of the DIY bus conversion homes are pretty good, but this one is tops in my books, it’s funct...

Winter is here, all the way down here in far west Texas, tonight it will get down into the low 20s(F), definitely wood stove fire weather, along with some good ...

Ever wonder how a sky castle grows? One room at a time :) In this case, this “room” was a semi enclosed deck between the bedroom and the laundry roo...

October is gone, November is here, it’s getting dark earlier (for those of us in the Northern hemisphere), it’s getting cold…. it’s also...

Buying land, it’s something you will be doing if you want to homestead or go off-grid on your own. Personally I wouldn’t want to “go in”...

  Could you survive in the wilderness with only a sling shot as your weapon? Lots would depend on your survivability. Having a means to harvest protein and...

Off-Gridders have been around for a long time, but it’s just been recently that technology has been available to make living off-grid as cushy as any grid...

Winter is coming, it’s well into fall and the season is definitely changing. The air is cooler, especially in the mornings, crisp, I can smell the smoke f...