Off Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness

For those who like having walls with pictures and doo dads hung up in various places, it can be daunting to precisely hang items around windows.

As many of you know, we’ve been off grid for roughly 46 years now.

We love sweet potatoes, but because we’ve always homesteaded in northern latitudes, we’ve never made growing them a priority.

As far as we’re concerned, something we all need is more thyme.

An often overlooked area of preparedness and self-reliance is garment making and repair, otherwise known as sewing and mending.

Plant a Victory garden?

Is a garden worth growing?

We sure have done a lot of canning over the last 44 years and that doesn’t include the many years Johanna canned with her Mom and Dad as a young lady.

Is sewing a survival skill?

Most serious homesteaders come to realize at some point in their journey to self-reliance that certain equipment not only makes life easier but is essential for efficient utilization of time.