High Tide Homestead

Dealing With Isolation And Alaskan Winters

One thing about living off grid and off-road is the isolation factor. I never thought of this as a problem before. In

Before we moved to Alaska, I had cooked on a wood stove once, for practice. And it wasn’t even good practice either!

As many of you know, Kyle and I found out I was pregnant before we gave up everything to move to Alaska.

We use a lot of 5 gallon buckets here around the homestead, and we are always coming up with ideas we need

Emergency preparedness is huge when you live as far from town, and the road, as we do. We ended up snowed in

As I mentioned a few posts ago (found here), Kyle and I are going to try to go minimal electricity once a

Kyle and I have done a lot of work on our property since we came out here in June 2016. Taking raw

Today is the perfect day for this post, seeing as we hit -20 out here! Kyle was up stoking the fire several

When you live off grid, and off-road, maintenance matters! There is no way to quickly take something to the shop if it

Depending on who you ask, off grid means different things to different people. To Kyle and I, it’s living remotely, unconnected to

Here are the top 5 posts for the best of Sled Dog Slow 2016

Cast-iron pans can be a beautiful addition to any kitchen, but they can also a little intimidating. At least they have been

Just a little update from around the homestead and how we are doing now that there is snow. Our addition is finally

I assume some of you following this blog found us because you’d like to go off grid some day too. So I

The other day I had the worst experience of my life, and I really think the only reason I made it out

Sometimes life kicks you in the teeth. Or Alaska kicks you. Or a 4 wheeler. Yup. Definitely a 4 wheeler. After talking