Off The Grid News Better Ideas For Off The Grid Living

Stockpiling supplies for an emergency is at the very core of survival. Unfortunately, though, not everything stores well, especially when we’re talking about months and years. Most food items don’t store well, but we are able to make up for ...

  With so many needs on the homestead, using pallets to meet some of those needs seems like an easy and inexpensive option. From simple shelving to mini barns for goats, projects around the homestead that can easily be completed ...

You walk out one morning onto your carefully maintained lawn and garden, only to find a series of unsightly mounds of dirt and broken earth. When you step on the mounds, they give way. As you look more closely, it ...

If you are like most people, you have a vast array of great-smelling cleaning products under your sink that carry with them claims of great efficacy for keeping your home looking and smelling its best. However, if the truth is ...

About 15 percent of people in the US meet their water requirements through private wells. If you’re one of them, it feels good to be independent with regard to water. But, do you worry about the quality of the water ...

What’s in your food?  If you’re like most Americans, you probably don’t know. And with all the chemicals being added into our food, even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it doesn’t know all of the ingredients in our ...

We drink it, we wash with it and we water our garden with it. Yet what exactly is in our nation’s tap water and is it really safe? Tap water comes from surface water (including reservoirs, lakes and rivers) or ...

Our society is making more and more plastic each year. In fact, the amount of plastic that was manufactured in the first 10 years of this century will approach the total produced in the entire last century! That is a ...

When your great-grandmother sat down for breakfast with her family, it was probably a lot different than the one you ate today. No doubt, she baked homemade bread and spread freshly churned butter on top. The bacon she cooked came ...

When I was a kid, there was a TV commercial – I think it was for peanut butter — that started out with the words, “When you’re a mother, you worry about everything.” For some reason, that phrase has stayed ...