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[2020] Off-Grid Lights & Lighting Options

By Kevin Weidner April 5, 2020 April 3, 2020

We’ve lived in an off-grid yurt in southern Vermont since the spring of 2016 and have used a few different lighting options. Maybe you’re looking for off-grid lights for a cabin, a hunting camp, a tiny house, a van, or whatever the next iteration of off-grid living might be. Regardless

[2020] Best Prepper Seeds & Survival Seed Packs

By Kevin Weidner March 30, 2020 March 14, 2020

Growing your own food (and being prepared to grow your own food from scratch) is foundational in being prepared for longer-term disasters. Keeping survival seeds on hand (prepper seeds) is the way to make sure that, in the face of an emergency, you have the right tools to “kale” it

[2020] Best Gravity Water Filters for Off-Grid Living – Reviews

By Kevin Weidner February 6, 2020 March 22, 2019

This review of water filters contains a few affiliate links, which means if you buy a filter through these links we may get a small commission (at no extra cost to you). This helps support our off-grid experiment so we can continue to share content. When we moved off grid,

Off-Grid Outdoor Shower with Propane Water Heater

By Kevin Weidner March 26, 2020 October 8, 2018 2 Comments

After two years of living in our yurt, two years of cold showers and lengthy considerations for a hot water off-grid shower solution, we finally decided to pull the trigger and build an outdoor shower, off-grid and powered by a propane on-demand water heater. TL;DR: We use the Camplux 1.32

Our Off-Grid Solar Panel Setup: A Review of PowerFilm Solar Products

By Kevin Weidner February 6, 2020 June 26, 2018

Now that it’s summer and the sun swings high above our heads, we’ve been finding it quite easy to soak up the sunlight and keep our batteries fully charged. Our off-grid solar setup is a combination of PowerFilm Solar products for capturing the sun’s energy and a Goal Zero battery

LED Lights for Our Off-Grid Yurt

By Kevin Weidner March 6, 2018 March 5, 2018

For the first year in this little off-grid yurt of ours, our sole light source was six small, inflatable, solar-powered Luci lights from MPOWERD. Now we’ve upgraded to two strings of LED lights, powered by a solar-charged battery. Though the Lucis were great and we still use them as reading lights

Backyard Sugaring: Collect Maple Sap with Five-Gallon Buckets

By Kevin Weidner February 27, 2020 February 18, 2018

A small-scale maple sugaring operation like ours—basically, backyard maple sugaring—doesn’t use vacuum pressure to collect maple sap. Good old-fashioned gravity is our method of choice. There’s two methods to consider when deciding how you want to collect sap from your maple trees. First, there’s the picture postcard method: tap a

I Love Luci: That Yurt Featured on the MPOWERD Blog

By Kevin Weidner October 30, 2016

We recently spoke with MPOWERD, a great company that makes affordable solar-powered lanterns (called the Luci), and the interview is now posted on their Bright Ideas blog. We’re so grateful for their interest in what we’re up to and how we’re getting by. We’ve been using one of their products, the

How to Clean an Aquacera Ceramic Water Filter

By Kevin Weidner February 5, 2018 July 29, 2016

The Aquacera Traveler XL water filter is ridiculously easy to clean and maintain, and the ceramic filters themselves are easy to replace when it comes time. For starters, the filter is sturdy and solid but easy to deconstruct. The lid sits atop the top (unfiltered) reservoir and this top reservoir

Hauling and Filtering Water: Off-Grid Yurt Living

By Kevin Weidner March 5, 2018 July 25, 2016

TLDR Update, March 2018: We haul water from a spring using food-grade 6-gallon jugs and filter our drinking water using an Aquacera Traveler XL. *** A main consideration in selecting property on which to build the yurt was the presence of a year-round water source so that we could filter our own