When you’re looking to go off grid, there are several options, but you’ll often begin by asking: Can solar alone get me off grid? The answer to this question is “yes,” but keep reading if you want more details. Using ...
Read More »Articles Written By Patrick Shelley
Here’s What To Do With All Of Those Extra Deer Parts
When you hunt and use every part of a deer, you respect and honor not only just nature but age-old hunting traditions that we seem to have forgotten in our busy digital life. Hunting as a means to feed and ...
Read More »7 Heal-Anything Medicinal Plants You Can Grow Indoors
There is absolutely nothing like having fresh medicinal plants that you can pick and use right on the spot, when you need them. Plus, you can dry them, and then use a mortise and pestle to grind them and encapsulate ...
Read More »How To Build A Log Cabin, Just Like The Pioneers Did
For the pioneers, building a log cabin was not just a cool project that you took on for the fun of it. You had to know how to build your own home because there was no one else to build ...
Read More »4 Survival Recipes That Kept The Pioneers Alive On Their Westward Trek
The pioneers’ recipes were not ones that came from being able to shop at a large grocery store, where you can buy virtually anything. Their recipes – or “receipts” as they were called back then — were born out of ...
Read More »How To Make Butter At Home, Just Like Your Great-Grandparents Did
Back in the day, your great-grandparents grew their own fruits and vegetables, raised their own livestock, and made their own foods. One of the things that most everyone made in the kitchen was butter. The reason is simple: Most people ...
Read More »The First Steps In Building An All-Natural Stone Fireplace
Stone or rock fireplaces can give your home or the area they’re built in that amazing look that makes you feel like you’re in a lodge with friends, gathered round the fire, singing songs and drinking hot cocoa. The value ...
Read More »How To Heat Your Off-Grid Home With Biogas
Living off the grid used to mean roughing it, but not anymore. Now you can live just as well as any grid home and accomplish all of your goals at the same time. That definitely includes the winter, and one ...
Read More »The Low-Cost, Termite-Proof, Fireproof Home That Will Last Centuries
Rammed earth homes made out of natural resources such as sand and clay have been around since before people had axes. In fact, the technique to build them has been used by nearly every culture on earth at one point ...
Read More »3 Steps To Building Your Own Lodgepole Pine Furniture
There are 101 uses for knowing how to build lodgepole pine furniture that go way beyond the furniture itself. Our forefathers built lodgepole pine furniture out of necessity. They needed beds, tables, benches, chairs and much more. As pioneers, they ...
Read More »