Off-Grid Lifestyle: The Frustration with Growing Food

We all see them, the amazing how-to videos and articles about how to garden, how to grow your own food and how to be self-sustaining. Each one set against a backdrop of lush greenery full of an abundance of fruits and vegetables. Bees and butterflies flowing from flower to flower, providing pollen for the perfect

OFF-GRID LIFE MONTH ONE: Adaptation and Patience

We made it through the first four weeks off-grid and the experiences have been far more abundant than I could ever have expected. You see, I didn’t come into this lifestyle with a preconceived ideal or a rigid set of outcomes of what I believed things would be. Honestly, do we ever really know the

Self-Protection: When Going Inside is Necessary

Protection of self is a topic often discussed in group settings. Questions arise, centered around possibilities and the options of how to defend oneself. Home defense tools, learning new skills that help deter and lessen potential harm and creating an awareness of our own surroundings that encourages safety. But, have you ever given thought to