PREPARE FOR A SIMPLE AND SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE!
Gardening & Growing
Raising Animals
Off-Grid & Self-Sufficient
Simple Lifestyle
Off-grid Spain
Stories
Hi, I'm Sandrine!
I live off-grid on an olive and almond farm in Spain, with alpacas and chickens and dogs and all the things. We’ve got solar panels and water from a borehole, we aim to grow our own food and be more self-sufficient, and we also try to make more time for what’s really important in life… Come and join the sunny simple living movement!
Gardening & Growing
Matching Vegetables to their Preferred Soil Type + Pros and Cons of different Types of Soil
Discover different types of soil and learn how soil type and management can impact the types of plants that will thrive in your vegetable garden.
Best 5 Vegetables to Grow For Self-Sufficiency
What are the best 5 vegetables to grow for self-sufficiency? We listed ...
How to Start a Garden from Scratch – in 7 Easy Steps
Whether you’re new at gardening and have never done it before, or you’re ...
The Surprising Benefits of Hugelkultur, a Permaculture Soil-Building Technique
Hugelkultur is a technique often used in permaculture gardening to build ...
Raising Animals
Rotational Grazing: Sustainable Animal Husbandry for Almost Anyone
7 Things to Consider When Building a Chicken Coop
Why Raise a Heritage Chicken Breed?
What are the Best Animals for Self-Sufficiency?
Off-grid & Self-sufficient
What is Off-Grid Living, Really? What does it Mean and How does it Work?
The meaning of "off-grid living" depends on context - or on who you ask! There are different ways live off-grid, ...
5 Back-to-Basic Skills for Increased Self-Sufficiency (and Books to Get you Started!)
Learning basic skills like growing food, mending clothes and more allows ...
How to Be Self-Sufficient and Live Off-Grid
There's more than one way to be more self-reliant! We explore how to be ...
7 Steps to Moving Off-Grid and Starting a Simple Life
Most of the people who try moving off the grid but don't succeed, skipped ...
Simple Lifestyle & Homesteading
Summer Natural Health and Beauty Experiments to Feel Great Inside and Out
7 Natural Health & Beauty Experiments to Try This Fall
Gardening With Kids 101 – How To Keep Children Busy While Gardening
How to Craft your Own Perfume with Essential Oils
Off-grid Spain
Storm Filomena, January 2021
People associate Spain with sunny beaches, sangria and tapas. Which is what a holiday at the coast is probably ...
How Safe Is It To Live Off-Grid In Spain?
How safe is it to live off-grid in Spain? We’re not talking about safety ...
Keeping Animals in Spain: Getting Started
Thinking about moving off-grid and starting a farm (with animals) in ...
Off-Grid Stories: Sterre in Castellon
People who live off-grid all experience it in a different way; in this ...
Our Stories
Storm Filomena, January 2021
Tour Of Our Off-Grid House – Mas Del Encanto
Our Story: How We Ended Up Living Off-Grid in Spain
Harvesting Olives and Making Olive Oil – 2017 Edition
7 Steps to Move Off-grid
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