Welcome to Our Permaculture Homestead
After 13 years of researching “doomsday preppers” and homesteading for my apocalyptic novel, We Can Save Us All, I realized I had none of the survival skills I’d been writing about. I wanted to change that. Without becoming a total weirdo.
We began preparing our home to survive a grid-down situation, and dove into homesteading projects to inform our new lifestyle.
Here’s what happened next…
Permaculture Homesteading How-Tos and Articles
Portable Power Stations: Solar and Gas Generators
The benefits of our woodland homestead are many, but one drawback is that trees are known to fall, and every so often, they fall on power lines or other electrical things, and suddenly, hey, the lights are off. If we’re lucky, it’s a quick flicker and then back to Netflixing, but with larger storms, we’ve experienced power outages lasting a week or longer. This is when portable power stations come in super handy.
How Combustion Engines Work: The Visible V8
When we found this "Visible V8 Engine" building kit from 1960 in my in-laws’ basement, in near-perfect condition, in July 2020, the dog days of the pandemic…we figured it'd be a good opportunity to keep busy and learn the basics of how an engine works. Won’t you join us on this journey of frustration and super glue…
