8 Recipes for Home-Made Winter Skincare & Protection
Protect your skin, health and state of mind during the colder months with winter skincare products, lip balm, vapor rub and more!
Simple Lifestyle & Homesteading Skills
Living a simple lifestyle: raising kids, back-to-basic skills, off-grid mindset and money matters
Olive Oil: Everything you Always Wanted to Know about Liquid Green Gold
Olive oil is ever growing in popularity and price - but how is it made? ...
Summer Natural Health and Beauty Experiments to Feel Great Inside and Out
Feel great even when it's hot and dry outside with these summer natural ...
7 Natural Health & Beauty Experiments to Try This Fall
While you take the time to prepare for winter, remember to also make time ...
Gardening With Kids 101 – How To Keep Children Busy While Gardening
Gardening with kids can feel like you'll never get things done. Here are our tips to make the experience fun and educational for them - and more productive for you!
How to Craft your Own Perfume with Essential Oils
These essential oil perfumes are so good I could almost eat them. Rather than spending loads on store-bought ...
Face Mask Recipe for Every Season
The facial masks that we suggest here are for all skin types, as we’ll focus on mild, natural ingredients that will simply make your skin shine.
Getting rid of seasonal allergies with natural solutions
Let’s nip seasonal allergies in the bud with natural prevention and home remedies. So you don't need to dread the onslaught of spring!
How Do Covid-19 and the Corona Crisis Affect People who Live Off the Grid?
Covid-19 had a massive impact on the whole world, but it affected people who live off the beaten path in a different way than people who live in urban areas.
How to Whip Up Delicious Detox Smoothies From Your Own Garden
Detox smoothies are one superfood that is undoubtedly here for good - and we've got one for every season, all with fresh ingredients straight from the garden.
5 Natural Health & Beauty Experiments to Try this Spring
Spring is the season of new beginnings, for body and soul as well as for the garden. Here are 5 skincare + energy-boosting products you can easily make at home for natural health and beauty!
Easter Baskets and Their Hullabaloo
In the United States, Easter Baskets have become a ubiquitous symbol for Easter: brightly colored baskets overflowing with all sorts of candy and chocolate, cuddly stuffed bunnies, floppy green grass. But why?
What is Homesteading, and How does it Relate to Permaculture or Farming?
The definition and history of homesteading, as well as insights into the modern homestead, smallholding and permaculture homesteading.
11 Great Gift Ideas For Off-grid Girls
Looking for a great and original gift for someone who lives an off-grid lifestyle? Here are a couple of great suggestions!
Starting a Permaculture Homestead in Spain
We started a small-scale permaculture homestead in Spain wanting to grow our food and work with nature in a sustainable way, using permaculture techniques and frameworks. This is how we did it.
29 Egg-Based Recipes – for when your Chickens just won’t Stop Laying!
If your hens just don’t know when to stop laying… here’s a bunch of recipes to try and eat the extra eggs!
Why Working Online Is Fabulous When You Live Off-Grid
There are so many ways to make money when you live off the grid; working online can create a reliable foundation to pay your bills.
Working without an Office #1: Location-Independent Entrepreneurship
When you live off-grid, being able to make money from any location is a big perk. In this article, you'll read my story.
Recipe: Quick and Easy Pumpkin Oats Breakfast Bites
This is a winner at our bed & breakfast throughout autumn and winter (especially when you've got extra pumpkin or squash) - recipe here on popular demand.
Recipe: Cheesecake Brownie with Marmelade
Cheesecake is awesome. Cheesecake brownie is super awesome. Cheesecake brownie with red fruit is a match made in heaven.
Recipe: Hamburger Breads/Buns/Rolls
You'll never buy hamburger bread again once you've tried this recipe.
How Expensive is it to Live Off-Grid? Saving Money with an Alternative Lifestyle
Many people believe living off-grid is dirt cheap - or even free. Sometimes this lifestyle is great for saving money... and sometimes it isn't.
Less Busy-Ness, More Real Life: Disconnect From Your Phone
Can you imagine only 20 years ago, most of us didn't even have a mobile phone yet? Most of us now find it hard letting go of their phones for an hour now.
Working Without An Office: From Personal Assistant to Online Business
The story of how I started as a personal assistant - and transitioned into a 100% online business.
What Does Simple Living Really Mean?
Simple Living means so much - and it means different things to different people. Green, sustainable, minimalist, off the grid, homeschooling, all the things,... Read it here.
7 Steps to Move Off-grid
Grab your free guide to taking the leap