Starting seeds indoors is one of the best ways to get a strong, healthy garden—especially if you’re living off-grid or dealing with a shorter growing season like we do. One spring, I couldn’t find peat pots anywhere locally, which forced me to rethink my seed-starting setup. It turned out to be a blessing, because I … Read more
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
There may come a time when you can’t find yeast at the grocery store, or perhaps you’d simply like to learn a traditional skill that has been used for centuries. Long before packets of commercial yeast appeared on store shelves, people were making bread using potatoes, raisins, fruit, and naturally occurring wild yeasts found in … Read more
Mini Fridge for Off Grid Living off-grid, I didn’t think I needed a fridge at first… but once summer hit and we started spending more time at the cabin, that changed pretty quickly. Keeping a few drinks cold, storing leftovers, or even just having milk on hand makes a big difference in day-to-day comfort. So … Read more
Adding solar power to our small off-grid cabin has been one of the best upgrades we’ve made. We installed a 200-watt solar panel system connected to an inverter with two standard plug-ins, and now we have enough power for many of our everyday essentials. Solar panel kits have come down a lot in price over … Read more
Best Rat Traps on the Market If you’ve noticed more mice and rats around lately, you’re not alone. Some years seem much worse than others, and recently we’ve had rodents showing up in places where they’ve never been before. Many of our neighbors have been dealing with the same problem. Weather patterns, food availability, and … Read more
Chaga from the Birch Trees Chaga Tea is a great way to get all the wonderful nutrients from the Birch Tree Tao Chaga Wild Harvest Canadian Chaga Mushroom (Inonotus obliquus) Chunk – 1 lb (454 g) Read about all the many benefits and healing properties of Chaga here
Every spring, one of the first signs that winter is finally over is the appearance of bright yellow dandelions covering fields, meadows, and roadsides. Many people see them as weeds, but around our off-grid cabin, dandelions are one of the most useful wild plants we harvest each year. We often add the young dandelion greens … Read more
Every spring, when the snow starts to melt and the days begin to warm up, something incredible happens—birch trees start running with sap. Not far from our property, we have a grove of birch trees, and this year we decided to tap them for fresh birch water and try making birch syrup. For my husband, … Read more
I started growing garlic several years ago, but honestly, I had no idea what garlic scapes even were. Worse yet, I didn’t realize I was supposed to remove them from the garlic plants. That probably explains why my garlic bulbs were always smaller than I expected. Once I finally learned to cut the scapes off, … Read more
