For the past 5 years, our family has been living without running water. Instead, we live with what I have heard referred to as "walking water." In our case, the walking part has been quite literal - walking hundreds of gallons of water in buckets from one place to another.
I ...
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Strawberry-Chia Water Kefir
When the summer heat and humidity hit, I have strong cravings for cold sweet beverages - the kinds of drinks I rarely purchase - like coconut water, ridiculous froo-froo coffee drinks with lots of w
hipped cream, and recently, overpriced chia seed kombucha beverages.
Last week, our friend and ...
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Homestead Waterworks
An area of our homestead infrastructure that we spend A LOT of time thinking about, worrying about, and being creative about, is water. As we are living completely off-grid, we have to figure out ways to source water for drinking, bathing, washing dishes, cooking, watering the garden, watering ...
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Living Without Lights (or water, or electricity…)
Since we are creating our off-grid homestead from scratch and camping/living very rustically as we build, I frequently get asked the question, "How do you live without _____?"
Blank, of course, being lights or electricity or running water or a flush toilet. The funny thing is, that this way of ...
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Winter Water on our Off-Grid Homestead
A month or so ago, I shared with you our brand new system for winter water catchment. It involved burying 50 gallon food grade barrels underground, with a hand pump to get the water above ground. In this post, I'll share how that system worked (and didn't work), and how we are managing to catch ...
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Building a Tiny Home :: Winter Water
Early on in the process of building our tiny home, we needed to create systems for catching and using water. We purchased these 50 gallon, food grade barrels for $10 apiece from the local Pepsi distributor, hooked them up to the gutter of our metal-roofed home, and proceeded to catch rainwater for ...
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