We don’t throw away produce around here. When we harvest more than we can eat, we preserve the rest, usually by canning because that...

Quick update to the previous post about the safety of off-grid life & answering a couple questions we’ve gotten since… I am now of the...

Small towns & rural areas are infamous for everyone knowing everyone...& everyone's business, but sometimes that can work out in your...

It hurts my heart to cut down living trees but, fortunately most of the ones that have to go are already dead where they stand because of...

Got a visit from a child welfare investigator, today. Apparently someone reported “safety concerns” related to my children living in a...

One of the first questions I hear from people, is how do we cook. From these conversations, I have concluded that most people think that...

How we manage without a water source on the property is consistently one of the first questions we get from people. Water is life, after...

Often, when people ask me why I went & did something as...ummm, we'll call it unusual...as moving to a remote area & living off grid, I...

Last night marked one week since we officially moved into Blue and we're starting to get settled in and establish a routine. One thing...

Solar panels are up, and I say it's all right. Originally we thought we'd be moving in without power or water but, thankfully, the feds...

Welcome to the Two Acre Wood. There's no Tigger, and the only one with a "gloomy place" here with probably be me; but there is definitely...

I don't know how this happened, it just happened... I feel like any introduction to this property needs to include its history, so let's...

2020 changed everything for a lot of people, and my family was not exception. November 4th, I went to visit my parents. All year I had...