The Living Sustainably and Independantly, Ready for Rough Times, Hands-On, Off-Grid, Prepping Worksop

How the heck does energy efficiency  relate to prepping you may ask?  Well, that’s really an easy one to answer, as in a grid down scenario following a disaster, even the mots well equipped prepper will recognize that what energy they can produce is a valuable resource not to be wasted.  There are four main…

This Week On Movie Monday Wartime Farm is an eight part documentary program originally aired on BBC2 in 2012.  Historian Ruth Goodman along with archeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn take over a farm in Hampshire, England.  The goal is to run the farm as it would have been during the second world war. With…

We’ve all been there…early in the morning, calling into the boss to tell them that we won’t be in that day for any multitude of reasons.  It could be a bout with the flu, strained back, or something else along those lines.  When we leave that message, we pop some OTCs and head back to…

As part of my interest in prepping, I regularly search the internet for wind power projects.  I plan on building some sort of wind generator in the near future.  My searches led me to this site…not exactly te scale I had in mind, but seems like a handy and useful project to do.  I may…

Well – the inevitable happened. I worried about this many times over the years perhaps more than most “normal” people – and last night was THE night. The trouble begins when Levi the Dog had to do his business at 3am. We trade off on night duty because no one likes to get out of…