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Pelican 75 Sled Review: Essential Winter Gear for Off-Grid Living

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Living off-grid in the winter brings a whole new level of challenge — especially when it comes to hauling supplies. We don’t know what we would do without our snowmobiles and our Pelican 75 sled. When the snow gets deep and the road ends 4 km before the cabin, this sled becomes one of the … Read more

Bear Safety When Hiking in Bear Country

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Hiker on a forest trail in bear country preparing for safe hiking

Hiking is one of my favorite ways to spend time outdoors, especially here where wild spaces are still truly wild. But many of the trails we love also happen to be bear country, which means preparation matters. Like many people, I used to feel nervous hiking in the bush because of the possibility of encountering … Read more

Mosquito and Tick repellent clothing

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Wearing protective clothing to prevent mosquito bites at an off-grid cabin

This year the mosquitoes have been worse than I can remember on our off-grid property. Between the wet spring and all the brush around our cabin, it’s been nearly impossible to work outside without getting eaten alive. Spray alone just wasn’t cutting it anymore — especially when hiking through bush trails or working long hours … Read more

Small Log Cabin

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An update on the Small Log Cabin

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Small Log Cabin

It’s been awhile since I’ve updated on the small log cabin.

Traveling to the cabin

We have been enjoying snowmobiling up the past few winters, it’s been great as we live not far from the Great Canadian Trail and can snowmobile right from our home to the cabin which is a trek of about 45 km. It took some time to get the cabin back to the point of being able to use it, but now it’s great! Small log cabins are wonderful.

I keep the cabin stocked with blankets, towels, a change of clothes and the basics of food year round and we use it lots.

We don’t leave any canned goods over the winter, but I do have flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, oatmeal, salt, pepper and lot of dried foods. One day I’ll do an inventory and post if on the site. We have never been short of food when heading out for a day.

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Most Effective Mosquito Repellents for Off-Grid Living

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Off-grid cabin during heavy mosquito season in summer

Mosquito season at the cabin can be brutal some years — and this is definitely one of them. After two wildfire seasons, we were grateful for the moisture this spring. The forest needed it. The wild strawberries are the biggest I’ve ever seen. But all that rain created perfect breeding conditions for mosquitoes. Trying to … Read more

Where to find Peat Pots for starting and transplanting seeds

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Growing your seedlings in Peat Pots
Seed Starting

Wow! I have all these seeds started and went out to my garden shed to find I have run out of peat pots  I need 2 1/2″  or 3″ pots to replant these veggies.

I have spent the better part of this morning calling every store I can think of in our area to see if anyone has pots…..no luck absolutely everyone is sold out!  I guess with this Covid-19 the time as come that more people are realizing they can grow there own food.  I think this is fabulous, but holy moly do I need pots.

One of the stores would said they would order them for me if I can’t find any, when I called back and placed the order all was good until I got a call back saying the order would not be in until mid May early June.  I can’t wait that long  It’s April 24th today!  Now what?

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Extend Your Vegetable Growing Season

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Learn How to Extend Your Growing Season Learning how to extend your vegetable growing season can make the difference between a successful harvest and crops that never fully mature—especially in cooler or northern climates. Where I live, extending the growing season isn’t optional. Without some form of protection, many crops simply wouldn’t make it to … Read more

Mini Fridge for Off Grid

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Mini Fridge for Off Grid

We have a little cabin off grid and for the most part we don’t really need to use a fridge, but we have installed a small solar system for things like this.


I’ve been thinking it might be nice to have a fridge in the summer, especially since we will be spending more time there; so I started doing some research and found some that should work nicely.

The Mini Fridge

Ice Cube one of many mini fridges

This mini fridge is 15 litres and runs on 45 Watts so will be able to run on a 200 watt inverter with no problems.

Some great advantages to this one are:

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