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Off The Grid Expo will soon be coming to Reno, Nevada. Off The Grid News recently sat down with event organizers Tony Spiker and John Appert to discuss the expo designed to educate those considering untying themselves from the power ...

What if we had a revolution and nobody came? This is a question that companies selling structural insulated panels, or SIPs, must be asking themselves every day. Here we have a building product that has in fact radically revolutionized residential ...

June 28, 2013 OK yes, someone DID actually make the ridiculous statement that “rice will turn to mush in 5 years” of storage….. Yes it was someone new that thought they knew what they were talking about – they obviously ...

The latest installment of the Off The Grid News prepper expos series focuses on the Midwest Self Reliance Festival. The Des Moines, Iowa prepper expo offers another opportunity for survivalists and off- the-grid Americans to network with one another and ...

June 24, 2013 The Arizona Survivalist/Prepper Expo is one of the many summer and early fall events geared to advancing the efforts of those concerned about fallout from either a man-made or natural disaster/crisis in America. The off-the-grid movement and ...

June 20, 2013 This is a project building small root cellars out of 55 gallon plastic drums patterned from the information in Purdue Extension Application note HO-125. This is my nephew Ben lending me a hand. It is January and ...

In my home I have over a dozen firearms, thousands of rounds of ammunition, shelves and shelves of food, enough water to drink for weeks, and two rucksacks packed to last 72 hours should this all be compromised. Now how useful ...

Knot tying might not cross your mind when you’re thinking about skills you would need to survive in the wilderness, but knowing different knots could save your life. Different knots are used in building, setting traps and snares, setting up ...

When the white man arrived on the shores of North America, the folks who already lived here had been thriving for hundreds of years, using foodstuffs that were available to them. If we are smart, we might want to explore ...

Do you live with an “off-the-grid” guy? Does your man live in his own little world—a world where he tries to do everything himself? Maybe you’re the husband of an OTG gal. How do our spouses put up with us? ...