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Alternative Energy Solutions For Alaskan Off Grid Homesteads

Katie — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 17:30:07 +0000

Harnessing solar power in the Land of the Midnight Sun Despite the common misconception that Alaska suffers from an eternal winter, when averaged over the year Alaska gets 10-17 minutes of sunlight more each day than other states. And our summers are graced with nearly endless daylight. That means alternative energy in the form of […]

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The Case For High Tech While Off Grid

Katie — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 21:29:47 +0000

This post is inspired by a conversation I recently had on Reddit about why people outfit off grid cabins like suburban homes. It may seem counter intuitive to have things like high end and high tech kitchen appliances while living off grid, but the reasoning is sound. As someone who lived for years without a […]

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5 Ways To Get Drinking Water Off Grid

Katie — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:29:12 +0000

When you live in town getting a glass of water is as easy as turning a tap. But what do you do when municipal water isn’t instantly available? Here are 5 different ways to get clean drinking water when you live off grid. Find A Spring A spring is a point where groundwater flows through […]

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Cleaning Outboard Fuel Injectors

Katie — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 07:04:35 +0000

Living off grid with no road connection means becoming a jack of all trades. Often seen as a bad thing due to being misquoted as “A jack of all trades, master of none”, when it was originally meant to be a compliment. While we may not be experts at anything we do out here, we […]

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Use This All Natural Trick From Grandma To Clean Fireplace Glass In 5 Minutes

Katie — Sun, 10 Dec 2017 22:25:43 +0000

I’m sure you’ve all run into this before. You got a great deal on a glass-faced wood stove, but the glass has an inch of creosote built up on it. Or you put in a brand new stove (Amazon affiliate link) just last week and already you can’t see the fire through the thick layer […]

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How We Have Running Water Off Grid

Katie — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:04:34 +0000

Do we live off grid? Yup. Do we have clean, drinkable, running water off grid, and on tap? Yup, got that too! I thought today I’d talk about how we cobbled together our water system to create clean tap water off grid. ⇓Check out this video detailing our system!⇓ And just in case you would […]

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The Good, The Bad, The Gross – Outhouse Care

Katie — Thu, 08 Jun 2017 03:18:05 +0000

Before we decided to go crazy, drop our entire lives, and move to the Alaskan bush, I had rarely used an outhouse. I’d used park maintained porta potties, mostly. And maybe a real, honest to goodness outhouse in an orchard or on a camping trip a few times. But I’d never needed to even think […]

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Rookie Mistakes We Made As Beginning Homesteaders

Katie — Thu, 18 May 2017 19:00:03 +0000

I’ll be the first to admit that when we first started our homesteading journey, we made a lot of rookie mistakes. We spent too much on things we didn’t need. Then we turned around and didn’t buy things we really should have. We skipped around when adding animals, buildings, and tools. That is, until we […]

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Three Surprising Places To Find Cheap Homestead Goods

Katie — Sun, 14 May 2017 22:14:42 +0000

Homesteading is not cheap. From animal feed to fencing (Amazon) to the animals themselves, there are quite a few things a beginning homestead will need. When we first started out we made the mistake of purchasing everything from a big box store. We spend thousands of dollars before we realized we could buy things way […]

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