Alex's Articles

Homesteading can be expensive. Yet there are some great ways to live a frugal and healthy life without even giving up what you love. In this article, I share six tips to help you stretch your budget and live a better frugal life.

Balance. It’s key to so many things in life. And it’s insanely easy to fall out of balance. This article gives you eight tips to keep your life in balance and help your homesteading journey be a more enjoyable one.

Two terms that get thrown around all the time are Homesteading and Prepping or Emergency Preparedness. The question is, are these things unrelated? Can you even do one without the other? This article discusses each topic and how they relate.

Homesteading feels like a fad. But it feels like the future. Yet this way of life is not for everyone. At least the down and dirty side of homesteading. In this article, I will cover homesteading and why it might not be for everyone.

Communications. How do you stay connected and yet disconnect from the everyday world? And what happens when the grid goes down? This article covers the basics of communication while living off grid.

If you talk to the average prepper on what you need, one of the first things you will hear is guns and food. Admirable preps for sure. But what do you do when ammo is impossible to get? Alternative skills and preparedness come into play when the world goes sideways…

When the homesteading bug hits you, it can hit pretty darn hard. This intense desire to make it all happen today. Like right now. But homesteading is not an instant fix. It’s a journey. This article gives you tips on how to make the most of your journey.

No one can plan for everything. And something will inevitably break down in the process. This winter was our first here in North Idaho, but we learned some valuable lessons along the way. In this article, I will cover four key areas we learned lessons and give you recommendations on…

Beep, Beep, Ring… Electronic devices are constantly around us. But in a grid-down situation we won’t have that crutch to rely on. In this article, I want to share with you some ways we have lessened the devices in our lives, and how you can do that same in your…

The Christmas holidays are upon us again. The stress of gifts, the joy of music, and the overwhelm of family. It all seems too much. However, there are a few ways you can balance the needs and wants of your family over the holiday season. In this article, I tell…