Self-Sufficiency
News and guides on how to be self-sufficient and live off the grid.
Sold up and gone to Crete
Artist and carpenter Julienne Dolphin Wilding has recently sold her flat in Kings Cross and bought land in Crete. She shipped out all her possessions in a 20 fo...
Must have fire
Here is another Bobbage project, we have a semi-enclosed deck space between the bedroom and the laundry room or whatever that room is this week :) We are able t...
How the Do It Yourself World came to be
Several years back, I found a YouTube channel featuring Troy and his Do It Yourself World, he posted videos about going off-grid on the smallest of budgets, I s...
Two flats in three days
Two flat tires in 3 days, what are the odds? Well for me, apparently, pretty good. I was planning on buying new tires in the near future, just not this quickly....
Low-energy rotisserie made from scrap
The chicken cooker went live, this is something PB has been working on for a few months now, I might have thought it wouldn’t be finished, but I stopped d...
Underground housing guru
How many of you remember Mike Oehler and his “$50 & Up Underground House Book“? I have a copy of this book and if I didn’t already live i...
Backup plan for internet
What’s your backup plan? Do you have one? I hope so, everyone needs one no matter where or how they live. Today I’ll discuss communication. A few we...
Do what you love, love what you do
What is your passion? If money were no object (and just what does that actually mean anyhow???) what would you be doing right now? Now, how can you turn this pa...
Rainwater harvesting, and a teaser!
Shelter, food and water are the trinity of life, actually that should be in the reverse order, water absolutely comes first, without it, there would be no life ...
Off-Grid with his own personal natural gas well
Ted Baker is my kind of man, independent, sharp, knows what he wants but is also flexible to change his path when need be. As I was watching this video, there c...
Arvo off-grid
Arvo Thompson went from wanting to live off-grid to actually doing it, a step that sadly, not enough people actually do. He has been living the life for 15+ yea...
Going tiny with a family
You take one ratty camper, tear it down to the frame, then rebuild it, now it’s transformed into a home, and not just for one or two, but a family with yo...