The Best Dog Breeds to Make a Good Pet for an Off Grid Cabin or Home
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Off Grid Living – How to Plant Nut Trees to Grow a Sustainable Food Crop and Make Extra Money
California – Planting nut trees can certainly be very rewarding, in fact, it can also be very lucrative and a good way for off gridder to earn extra revenue by selling organically raised nuts at local farmers markets.
Consider nut trees such as almonds, hazel nuts, pecans, pistachios, and walnuts.
A single nut tree can produce enough nuts to sell at a local Farmer’s market or roadside stand to make between $250 to $1,000 a year. One black walnut tree can bring about $20,000 in timber alone.
And if it’s well-managed, a five-acre plot of nut trees is enough to produce a full-time income. According to Bruce Thompson, author of Black Walnut for Profit, a mature stand of black walnut trees can bring about $100,000 per acre in timber alone.
If you have the patience and perseverance, planting nut trees can offer not only a great income and food for your family, but a legacy for years to come.
Source: https://www.offthegridnews.com/survival-gardening-2/nut-trees-off-grid-food-supply-and-money-maker/
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Off Grid Living – How to Pour Cement Wall Foundation Footers for an Off Grid Shed, Cabin or Home
Alaska – All concrete block walls, both structural and non-structural, require a solid, poured concrete footing. Concrete with high cured strength and rapid strength gain is recommended for pouring footing construction with cement.
All poured concrete/cement footings should be at least twice the width of the concrete blocks used. Standard 8” x 8” x 16” blocks would require a 16” wide footing. Make sure the footing depth extends below the frost line, and check local building codes for construction requirements in your area.
Tie rods should be set a minimum of 6” into the concrete footing for load bearing concrete block walls. Rebar should be placed in every other masonry core to provide structural support.
Source: https://www.todayshomeowner.com/how-to-build-a-concrete-block-wall/2/
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Off Grid Living – How to Pour Cement Foundation Piers for an Off Grid Shed, Cabin or Home
Washington – Pouring a cement or concrete slab foundation on a slope or a hill can be an expensive pain. Heavy machinery is expensive to bring in and the soil type may not always conducive to you building a fully dug out basement. A poured foundation, or even a cement pad, can cost thousands and take weeks to build. Again, a cement truck may not even be able to access your shed, cabin or off grid home’s site.
But when building a foundation with a pier and beam footers, it becomes much, much more affordable and is less risky to install and there are many other benefits.
Source: https://theoffgridcabin.com/how-to-build-the-best-foundation-for-an-off-grid-cabin/
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Off Grid Living – Metal Foundation Piers – How to Drill In Off Grid Foundation Piers with Screw In Metal Posts
Utah – Helical piers also known as helical piles, screw cylinder anchors and helical foundations started to be used in 1836. This revolutionary engineering technology was discovered and developed by Alexander Mitchell and became utilized as a successful foundation for lighthouses, bridges, piers and homes on hill tops.
After over 170 years of development and use, these helical foundations are successfully used throughout the world to support anything from small residential applications to supporting a variety of large-scale civil engineering structures. Deck footings, fence post bases, pier footings, metal post foundations for a porch or solarium, ground screw anchors to support an addition to a home are some of the more common residential applications. Helical piers are a foundation technology and can be considered for use in any application requiring a foundational support.
Source: https://www.technometalpost.com/en-US/advantages/helical-piers/
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Off Grid Living: The Benefits of Installing a Hydronic Heating System for Floors and Walls
North Dakota – While hydronic radiant heating has become more and more popular over the last several years, there are still many people who are not aware of the many hydronic heating system benefits when compared to a traditional heating plan. Radiant heat is clean and comfortable, while extremely energy efficient and flexible in design.
The single most important element that a heating system must give you and your family is comfort. Hydronic heating takes comfortable to a new level, as can be seen from the many benefits below:
Source: https://www.hydronicheating.net/benefits.html
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Off Grid Living – How to Install Electric Radiant Heating Mats for Under Carpet and Flooring
The Benefits of Installing Electric Radiant Heating Mats for Under Carpet
New Mexico – What is electric radiant floor heating? Radiant heated floors have been around since the Roman Empire in one form or another. In the United States, electric floor heating has become a popular trend for both new and retrofit projects. Nevertheless, there’s still a learning curve among many homeowners.
Traditional heating systems heat the air, which then warms up the people in the room. Radiant heating systems work by directly warming the people and objects in a room.
The floor temperature can be set as high as 104° F, but users will typically set it to a more comfortable range of between 80° F and 85° F and control it from a thermostat from there.
This type of heating often feels like the warmth of the sun, because radiant heat warms via heat radiation. This allows people to feel warm even when the ambient (air) temperature in the room is actually cooler.
It’s the same concept as standing in direct sunlight vs. standing in the shade.
Source: https://www.warmlyyours.com/en-US/posts/9-pros-and-cons-of-heated-floors
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Off Grid Living – How to Build Sturdy, Long Lasting Fences for Off Grid Properties
California – Off grid property fencing is a time-honored part of security on the homestead. It’s used for all kinds of purposes. From keeping out big critters, like deer, elk, moose, coyotes, mountain lions or bears, to protecting crops from smaller critters like bobcats, foxes, opossums, rabbits, raccoons and skunks.
Electric fences are one of our favorite types of fencing for off grid properties. Today, solar chargers can be purchased relatively cheaply and prove to be an asset in security on the off-grid homestead. We have used it for such a wide variety of projects and fencing needs.
We’ve used it for protecting our flower, medicinal and vegetable gardens from deer and rabbits. as well as to serve as temporary fencing between pastures when moving livestock.
One of the main drawbacks of an electric fence, for some people, is you must check it daily depending on the use. A limb may be on the fence or grass may be growing up into it causing a short out.
There’s also the possibility of a broken wire which can shut down the whole fence. To help alleviate some of these risks and others, we prefer to use a barbed wire fence in tandem with an electric fence. Especially once you consider upfront cost, upkeep, and reliability.
Hog panel or cow panel fence panels in combination with T-posts can be very cost effective for providing a very sturdy fence that is difficult to knock down and can be used to enclose the entire property or the one acre tract that protects the house and backyard gardens.
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Off Grid Living – How to Build Chicken Nesting Boxes so that Eggs Roll Out Automatically
Oregon – If you’ve ever raised chickens, you know that walking into a chicken coop and shooing chickens out of the way can be a time consuming task.
But if you build your nests to tilt slightly forward or backwards, the eggs will roll out where they are easy to see and collect.
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Off Grid Living – How to Build a Predator Proof Chicken Coop to Protect Against Bobcats, Coyotes, Foxes, Skunks, Opossums, Raccoons and Other Annoying Varmints
New Hampshire – Raising chickens for meat and eggs has been an important staple for pioneers for thousands of years. We highly recommend researching the links below and use them to plan ahead before building your first chicken coop and chicken run.
Building a predator proof chicken fortress will prevent a lot of worrying and stress about coming home to find all 50 of your chickens with their heads pulled off by a raccoon, fox or skunk that was able to grab them through flimsy chicken wire fences. Welded wire fences, buried hog panels, stones, electric fences and other valuable defense mechanisms will help secure your chicken coop and chicken run and make it safe from all predators.
Click on the picture above to view more photos of precisely how to build a rock solid chicken coop and utilize proactive steps that will help you build a chicken coop that is easy to clean and that will keep all of those dang nighttime varmints out including bears, bobcats, coyotes, foxes, mountain lions, opossums, raccoons, skunks, snakes, wolves and other varmints as well as protect against daytime flying predators such eagles, hawks, owls,
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Off Grid Living - Learning How to Live Off the Grid 