Nearly 30 years ago, Trees for Life Founder, Alan Watson-Featherstone stood in the Universal Hall and in front of 300 people made a life-long commitment to restore the ancient Caledonian Forest. He started with no resources, no knowledge, no access to land, no funds, but his passion and inspiration have carried him forward and now […]
Earthships are living buildings that are adapted to their environment to make use of climate, water, and waste products. When people think of earthships, they usually think of the desert southwest of the US, because that’s where they originated and where many of them are built. In this video we tour an unusual version of […]
Compost worm farms transform household waste into a resource, a very valuable resource, a nutrient-rich fertilizer (liquid and solid) while also closing the loop on food waste cycles in households. Compost worms are a great way to make your own fertilizer for organic gardening, and they are equally as good for recycling food waste at […]
Have you ever thought about living off the grid. How would you cook? How would you earn a living. What about lights in your house? Here is a family adventure about living off the grid and how they do it. Canning Foods, Solar Power, Raising Livestock and Chickens, and so much more! Check it out […]
With canning season on the horizon, Eric and Arielle from Simple Living Alaska started the construction of an underground earthbag root cellar that will soon store their precious canned food and crops from the garden. Check out part one of the build below… In the second video Eric and Arielle complete the underground earthbag root […]
Hidden amongst the spectacular mountain ranges of the Kahurangi National park of New Zealand, this beautiful off-the-grid cabin sits in paradise. Affectionately titled the Honeywell Hut, after it’s builder Jack Honeywell, the off the grid cabin, although relatively new, looks as though it could have sat on the land for a hundred years. Being situated […]
In this documentary we follow one man as he leaves the city life behind to build a cheap off grid log cabin and homestead in the Canadian wilderness, including a log home, an outdoor kitchen, an outhouse, a woodshed and a sauna bathhouse. Building mostly with hand tools, Shawn James harvests building materials from the […]
This man built a beautiful off-grid cabin with the help of friends for $65,000 CAD including the cost of the land. There was no road access to his lot so he had to bring in all of the building materials using a 4-wheeler with a small trailer, and then load them on a material elevator […]
If you think keeping a few chickens around in your backyard (or on the homestead) are only useful for providing you with fresh eggs, then think again. They can also be put to work in the garden so you don’t have to work as hard and so they help earn their keep too! And don’t […]
Take a tour of this beautiful, sustainable Earthship home in Ontario, Canada. This 3-bedroom Earthship home has it all: 10kW of solar panels, rainwater collection cisterns, indoor gardens, a wood-fired boiler, and passive cooling tubes. It’s built with recycled tires, bottles and cans, and off-cuts from a log home builder. After years of following the […]