August is the hardest stretch because overnight cooling can empty the batteries before sunrise.

We escape to the wilderness and start building a self sufficient off grid home, beginning with our first DIY compost toilet.

Remaining on-grid made sense for this solo homesteader, but learn how to build an off-grid cabin on a budget to keep those features in a small cabin. In terms of home energy systems, “off-grid” and ...

When Henry David Thoreau famously retreated to a tiny cabin in Massachusetts’s Walden Pond in 1845, it was because he wanted to live simply and “deliberately” in search of what he called “essential ...