Off Grid Skills

12 Basic Skills Most People Don’t Have Anymore

What we call survival skills used to be a way of life. These skills may not be essential to survival, but knowing them could make life easier.

Twelve years ago, Bryce and Misty Murph’Ariens paid off all their debts and left big city life to homestead on their wetland property.

Cutting down a tree yourself is the most economical solution, but you need to be very careful when attempting it.

While there are many different ways to go off-grid, leaving the grid requires a genuine transition and a lot of hard work.

Finding the perfect off-grid property is a dream of many homesteaders, but to truly live off the grid requires a specific type of land.

If you want to know how to disappear from the grid, you should know that it’s a decision to cut all ties with the outside world.

If and when the grid goes down, there are certain skills that will be very important to have. Here are fifteen to focus on.

In an emergency, your children might need to provide for themselves. It is never too early to start teaching children survival skills.

Many of the things we use today won’t be available after an economic collapse. Homesteaders need to become familiar with these rare skills.

There’s one knot, in particular, that is really useful. It’s called the farmer’s loop, and it’s a way to add a loop to the middle of a rope.