Over the holidays, we were lucky enough to receive a bunch of free pavers. They were given to us by one of our parents’ neighbors. He bought more than he needed when he built his house, and they’ve been sitting in a pile in his backyard for years, so he seemed happy to get rid…
Green leafy vegetables are literally among the healthiest foods a person can eat, but most people – including us – don’t eat enough of them. The problem with greens is they go bad quickly if you don’t eat them right away. That’s why we started canning our greens. Before you get the wrong idea, it’s…
Last month I broke my chopping axe while splitting some wood in the yard. Instead of re-handling right away, I decided to just go ahead and buy a new splitting axe. Why? Because I don’t actually chop wood very often. You see, there aren’t many large trees where we live – let alone dead ones…
It’s funny, just last week I was thinking about writing a review for this axe, and I was planning on touting it as one of the best budget axes; then… it broke. I’ll admit, I mainly use this axe for chopping mesquite wood, which is a very hard wood, and I use it almost every…
We live in a mountain valley, and sometimes the wind can get really intense. We’re talking gusts that reach 40 to 50 mph. The first time this happened to us right after installing our wood burning stove, a terrible thing happened: smoke blew into our house! Thankfully, we knew this was something that might happen,…
Right after Halloween, pumpkins in our area dropped to ridiculously low prices: we’re talking 50 cents a piece! Suffice it to say, we’ve been coming up with a lot of pumpkin-based recipes. This pumpkin and sweet potato hash is easily one of our favorites, and we figured the holiday season would be the perfect time…
Before we left Florida for Arizona, we wanted to make something to take with us for our tiny house. We had an old broken mirror and a nice pallet, so the answer seemed obvious: make a new frame for the mirror out of the pallet! We also used a large piece of 1/4″ plywood to…
This is the first recipe we’ve published on this site! Hopefully it will be just one of many more we share with you in the future. The theme of the recipes is going to be healthy, whole food, plant-based meals that are easy to make over a fire or don’t require any cooking at all….
Why Oil Lamps Are Perfect for Off-Grid Living Throughout the early half of October, we were hit with some unexpectedly bad weather. For several days, the sky was overcast, it rained perpetually, and frigid gusts of misty wind made being outside intolerable. Uncertain how long this would last, we were feeling somewhat hopeless, as we…
MOVING OFF THE GRID: SEASON 1, EPISODE 4 In this episode of Moving Off the Grid, we build a lean-to pergola on the side of our tiny house using leftover lumber from our house and pallet fence, plus some sheet metal we purchased from a scrapyard. The Sun was so intense during the summer, we…