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DIY Passive Heat Exchanger For Wood Stove

Make A Passive Fireplace Heat Exchanger Free Online Passive Heat Exchanger Plans

How To Make A Rocket Stove For Free Using Household Items

How To Make A Rocket Stove The Do It Yourself Rocket Stove Project. Step by step instructions how to make your own rocket st

Our Homestead Is About 95 Percent Off The Grid Already

We recently moved from our fully off the grid homestead in NY to our fully on the grid property in Michigan. In just over two months we have already taken our homestead about 95% off the grid.   One of the first things I did was to set up my electronics lab and off grid work

Starting Organic Garden & Lumber For Homestead Chicken Coop

We are planning to have an organic garden this year but the soil needs a lot of work on our new homestead so I am hauling compost to mix into it. I got a nice lumber yard haul to build our new chicken coop.   Many of you already know that we recently moved from our fully off

Fixed Hot Water Heater & Built Adjustable Solar Panel Rack

Since our recent move to Mighican we have been repairing some things in our new home and taking it off the grid. The first step in going off the grid is to get our solar panels up in the air on adjustable rack mounts.   Our hot water heater did not work when we got the house

How To Connect Power Inverters To Off Grid Solar Batteries

My wife and I are taking our new homestead off the grid on a budget. The next step in the plan is to hook up the power inverter so we have AC power in our off grid work shop. I show you how.   Connecting a power inverter to your battery bank is very simple really. All you nee

How To Wire Up Solar Charge Controllers

I am taking my new work shop off the grid this week. The first step is to get my solar charge controllers, batteries and solar panels hooked up. Today I show you how to wire up your solar charge controller.   Most solar charge controllers have three sets of connections. There

How To Connect Solar Battery Banks - Going Off The Grid

My wife and I have just moved to a new home and are taking it off the grid. We moved from an off grid tiny house in the woods to a not so tiny house which is currently on the grid. We hope to be energy independent again very soon.   The first thing I did was to get a shed for

Going Off The Grid First Step Reduce Energy Consumption

My wife and I have just moved from New York to Michigan. In NY we had an off grid tiny house on wheels. Here in MI we are taking our on grid homestead off the grid on a budget step by step. Here is the first thing you have to do on the path to energy independence.   If you ha

Homestead Blizzard Preparation - Off Grid Solar Power - Capacitor Battery Replacement

There is a blizzard on the way so we got our off grid homestead ready for the storm to come. On this day before the storm our off grid solar was at its peak this year. I am working on using super capacitors as a vehicle starting battery replacement.   We had been shopping the

Snow At The Homestead - Packing - Making Supercapacitor Banks

We got more snow at the off grid homestead the other day. We are packing our homestead up for a move to a new state and a fresh start but will continue homesteading and daily videos. I am making supercapacitor banks for starting vehicles.   A few days ago I started emptying t

Preparing To Move To A New Homestead & Sold Our Animals

Melanie and I are moving to Michigan to be closer to family now that a baby is on the way. We are selling off all of our larger items that we cannot take with us on the trip. We will continue on with daily videos and off grid homesteading but in a new location.   We sold our

Boiling Maple Syrup & Working In Off Grid Wood Shop

We have been boiling maple sap into pure maple syrup for weeks now on and off since we tapped early. The flow is not yet daily but the time is coming. I worked in the off grid wood shop designing a panel meter for my Quanta generator device.   Chris and I have been working fu

Early Season Tapping Maple Trees & A Gift Arrived

I have been tapping maple trees early this year due to an early warm spell that began already in January. I am still working with the Bedini Motor restoring lead acid batteries. And a beautiful gift arrived at the off grid homestead.   Since it turned warmer in mid January I

Tapping Maple Trees And Off Grid Homesteading

We have a warm spell of weather the past two weeks so I am tapping maple trees early this year. I am also restoring lead acid batteries for use on the off grid homestead in our greenhouse during the winter months.   First thing in the morning I had to sweep off the solar pane
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