Your Rain Water Usage Guide Water is one of our greatest natural resources. However, when it rains, most of the water ends up in storm drain systems where it has to be treated to be recycled. But you can actually create systems to store and use rainwater where it will do the most good. You …
You Can Still Start A Homestead Today Homesteading is once again gaining some real popularity in North America, United Kingdom, and Australia. Homesteading goes by several names; farming, off-grid, simple living, self-sufficient life, independent living, back-to-basics, and more. But homesteading what is it really? Homesteading has come to mean today any home that practices the …
The Egg Shaped Ecocapsule Well here is a great alternative for those people that would like to have the option to quickly set-up and live off grid. Slovakian architects have just revealed a super-compact capsule that promises to deliver a nomadic lifestyle, with all the renewable-powered comforts of home. The whole thing is pretty cramped, measuring just 2.55 …
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Eco-Friendly Floating Home Here is another idea for your OFF Grid Homestead a floating home. When you see the pictures and watch the video you will see what I thin is a lot of wasted space. Having said that it would be very easy with all that space to make it more usable. You just …
Winter Homestead Survival If you are located in an area where the climate can get really cold in the winter, you really need to get prepared. This does not mean leave it for when the cold strikes , this means preparing all year round for your winter homestead survival. This means stockpiling fire wood, making …
The Best Batteries For Your Off-Grid Energy The “Achilles heel” of solar, wind, or other power generating devices is the battery bank. These systems can be extremely expensive (and difficult) but is an necessity. The question always comes up “what is the best battery to use for an energy system?” So if you are using …
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Is Off Grid And Survival Homesteading The Same? For those people that are establishing their own Survival Homestead can pickup information and ideas from those individuals that intend to live “Off Grid” Living “Off-Grip” is rapidly becoming a popular choice to those people wanting to decrease their carbon footprint, affirm their independence and move away …
Homestead Dairy Cow – Yes No? Many homesteading/survivalist families make the decisions to invest in a dairy cow for their property. This will provide plenty of milk for your family – and possibly extra for your pigs, if you’re raising those. You can drink the milk, or create yogurt, ice cream and other items from …
Survival Bunker or Man Cave? You are trying to decide to start a Homestead, now depending on your reasons and everyone has their own reasons and if yours is for survival you may also want to consider building a “Survival Bunker”. If you think this may be for you, you may want to check this …
[wr_row][wr_column span=”span12″][wr_text el_title=””] Shipping Containers for the Homestead There are lots of ideas out there on how to build an inexpensive home for your Off grid Homestead. Using this method of using shipping containers and a combination of shipping containers and a recreation vehicle and or some building construction has been utilized and has been quite …