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 self-sufficient when living in an off-grid home.
How to Be Self-Sufficient and Live Off-Grid
Off-Grid Living & Self-Sufficiency
Building and maintaining an off-grid home – and setting up your property for increased self-reliance
7 Steps to Moving Off-Grid and Starting a Simple Life
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 or downplayed one of these 7 essential steps at the decision-making level.
7 Questions to Define the Best Place to Live Off the Grid
7 Questions to Define the Best Place to Live Off the Grid
When you make the decision to live off grid, no one can tell you which area is most perfect. Perhaps there are a few locations that could qualify as the best place to live off the grid in the world, but that’s really for you to decide. I’ve come up with seven...
Basics of Self-Sufficiency: Living Off the Land
Basics of Self-Sufficiency: Living Off the Land
Basic Requirements for Living Off the Land Living off the land sounds like a romantic life: waking with the sun, cooking up your own pastured eggs, skipping out to the garden with your hoe, fetching your water from a well behind your house, happily looking after...
Chickens and Self-Sufficiency: Is Raising Chickens Cost-Effective?
Chickens and Self-Sufficiency: Is Raising Chickens Cost-Effective?
Can you save money raising chickens for eggs and/or meat? How cost-effective are chickens, and how can they help us be more self-sufficient?
What’s the Meaning of “Living Off the Grid”?
What’s the Meaning of “Living Off the Grid”?
The Definition of Living Off the Grid Living “off grid” is generally defined as living without any connection to or reliance on public utilities, such as electricity, mains water, natural gas, telephone service and other essentials; as well as those utilities that...
7 Books That Help us Be More Self-sufficient
7 Books That Help us Be More Self-sufficient
Our favorite books about permaculture, off-grid systems, self-reliance, gardening, chickens, herbs and self-sufficiency.
Is it Possible To Be Completely Self-Sufficient?
Is it Possible To Be Completely Self-Sufficient?
For most of us, self-sufficiency is a journey - and possibly not attainable as a real-life goal. Let's explore what it'd look like to be 100% self-sufficient!
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!
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Simple Steps to Move Off-grid