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How often do you take electricity for granted? If you are like I once was, it happens quite frequently. Often, I would shut off lights and unplug things when not in use, but I still never really took the time ...

If you are attracted to the idea of living off the grid, but you think there is no way you could do it with a large family, you need to meet Jeff and Rose and their five daughters. With a ...

Doug Rudolph, 63, and his wife, Cathy, 57, left family, friends and a comfortable lifestyle in West Chester Pennsylvania to live off-grid in Anchor Point, Alaska. In a recent video tour of their home and property, the couple seems to ...

Any homesteading off-gridder knows that income from selling produce isn’t always sufficient. Costs for the building and repair of farm structures, purchasing additional livestock, veterinary expenses, real estate taxes — and everything else in between – can leave a homesteader ...

Although Andrew Michler has been working on his passive house for the past 20 years, he admits it is still very much a work in progress. Located one hour north of Denver and offering sweeping mountain views, the off-grid project ...

Unfortunately, pests are a fact of life. Actually, they’re a necessary part of the ecologic chain, but it’s hard to remember that when they’re invading your home and garden. Ever since buying our home in the country, we’ve been battling ...

Jocelyn and Jarvis knew they would have to make some radical changes in their lifestyle if they were going to get out of debt, but they did not know that those changes would put them on a different path altogether. ...

Accidents happen; that’s a basic fact of life that we have to deal with. We have a huge medical infrastructure to deal with those accidents. Even so, the action that is taken immediately, at the time and scene of the ...

One of the more frustrating nuisances to deal with on the homestead are rodents. The three main you will normally see are mice, rats and packrats. Here are some tips in dealing with, discouraging and ridding yourself of each of ...

A modern movement toward self-reliance has inspired people to unplug from society and to live more simply, removed from the trappings of modern life. But how off-grid are they really? How long could they last completely isolated? Time itself can ...