How to Find a Spring or Seep on your Off Grid Property
This is great advice. I wish we had known more about water sources before buying our property. We looked at it in March during a very raining day during a very raining year near a very rainy...
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Building Cabin Deck Time Lapse Video
Wow has it been 4 years? Here’s a throwback to this old post of a video showing us building the deck on our cabin. We built it in one long day! Don’t worry I’ll have new posts coming,...
Watch Elon Musk announce Tesla Energy – Great keynote speech
It’s interesting how Elon and Tesla can make technology simple, sexy and maybe even funny. Of course the technology to go off-grid or have a grid-tied solar system at your house isn’t new but it’s pretty complex compared to Teslas...
Craftsmans Whimsical Off-Grid French Tiny House Hamlet
Life is good for these craftsman living in this beautiful spot of forested land in France. The property is peppered with tiny off grid shacks built with creativity, love and craftsmanship. Kirsten Dirksen of Faircompanies.org goes on...
Off Grid Rain Water Collection Upgrade – Part 1
The video below is worth a million words but here goes. We finally moved the 550 gallon plastic water tank up on the hill that I bought 5 years ago. Until now we had no way to...
Steve Job’s Google of the 60s: Whole Earth Catalog – Lloyd Kahn
Steve Jobs called The Whole Earth Catalog “one of the bibles of my generation”. He went on to explain in his Stanford commencement speech in 2005, “It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years...
She Built Hawaiian Bamboo House for $11,000
Kristie Wolfe bought land in Hawaii sight un-seen for $8000 then arrived a year later with power tools in her luggage. With help from mom, this dynamic duo built this lovely 2nd house in the Hawaiian jungle...
Video tour of The Boss of the Swamp’s backwoods cabin
The Swamp Boss, has a great Youtube channel and he’s a very active youtuber, he really cranks out great content for your enjoyment. He’s quite the craftsman and has a great accent that I enjoy hearing since I...
Build a “better” brick rocket stove for $10 Video
Love these little stoves. They are great for cooking on because you only need to gather some twigs to get things hot and don’t burn your hands as easy as cooking on an open fire. Most of...
The Right Way To Test Batteries
Don’t get ripped off buying used batteries! I try not to buy used when I can but sometimes a good deal on big batteries comes on Craigslist and I may buy them. A voltmeter is not enough...
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