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Optimize Your Off-Grid Solar • Before you go off the grid, unplug your energy-wasting ways and establish sustainable habits that’ll help you live well through even the toughest conditions.
Get Green Building Know-How
Go with Renewable Energy for Your Home and Farm
The User-Friendly Manual Written By Experts
If I Could Do It All Again … Homesteading Lessons Learned • From planning your home to laying out garden beds, a longtime homesteader offers advice 38 years in the making.
A Step-by-Step Food Gardening Plan
Homesteading from Scratch
Get Charged Up with Off-Grid Battery Options • This expert advice will help you pick the best battery bank to power your property.
Comparison of Battery Energy and Cost Metrics
Cycle Life Cost Analysis
Become Energy Independent!
Living with Solar & Wind • A rural couple made a successful power play to supply their homestead with clean, affordable energy.
Living Off the Grid (And Without Propane) • Our Ontario home is powered by sun, wind, and wood, and consumes almost zero fossil fuels.
Income Independence on a Homestead • Reduce superfluous expenditures and build your skill set to achieve self-sufficiency.
Emergency Power Options • With the right generator, you’ll be prepared when storms or blackouts leave you without electricity.
How Much Is Enough?
Keeping Fuel Fresh
4 Generator Safety Tips
Oil Alert
Lessons from Off-Grid Living • Follow this advice from a 25-year veteran homesteader to shift to a low-carbon lifestyle.
Daily Energy Consumption on the Mather Homestead
Do-It-Yourself Off-Grid Solar • Explore the components and considerations for creating your own off-grid photovoltaic system.
Electrical Loads (Sample Calculation)
Planning the Plan • The first step to developing any new homestead is determining how it’ll be done.
How to Store & Protect Food Long-Term • A reader shares how to properly store food for the long haul.
Oxygen Absorber Size Requirements
Portable Solar-Powered Generator • These homesteaders converted an out-of-use garden trailer into a portable source of power to use around their property.
Tools & Materials
Off-Grid Living in Western Oregon • After decades of living on solar power, this author offers off-grid guidance on understanding voltage and reducing usage.
How to Start a Vegetable Garden • Use these labor-saving methods to transform any space into productive garden beds.
Quick Garden-Making Tips
Create an Herbal Medicine Chest at Home • Put together an herbal medicine chest: Grow and dry these essential herbs and use them to whip up some simple and effective remedies.
Home Food Preservation 33 Top Tips and Tricks • Stock your pantry like a pro by following these experts’ tried- and-true canning techniques.
Everyday Solar Cooking • If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen and cook with free power from the sun.
Best Staple Crops for Building Food Self-Sufficiency • Fill your pantry and boost your food security by growing these 10 space-efficient, calorie-rich staple crops that return high yields and store easily sans fossil fuels.
Recommended Staple Crop Varieties for Your Region
Crop Yields and Calorie Density
Build a Homestead Classic The Outhouse • For homesteaders in remote areas, a properly managed privy might be a better idea than a full-blown septic system.
Compost Toilets Don’t Pass Up the Poop • Including human excreta in your...