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Off Grid Composting Toilets with Ariel McGlothlin – 3009

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Ariel, along with her husband Clay, their dogs, and some poultry, lives in a tiny house on wheels in the mountains of western Wyoming and they are working on setting up their own new little homestead. She’s been living this lifestyle since 2014 and her wonderful partner has joined her more recently. They collect and split wood for heat, source water from a gravity feed out of a natural spring, use a composting toilet, have a small solar setup, and attempt to grow, hunt, or forage as much of their own food as possible between the weather and wildlife. Living … Continue reading →

Episode-2809- Jonathan and Ashley Longnecker from TinyShinyHome.com

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Jonathan and Ashley and their 4 children traveled the country for 5 years, renovated a vintage Airstream to fit their needs for off-grid camping, and set off on an adventure that would forever change the course of their lives. To do this they sold their house and all their belongings in exchange for a life of adventure. After 5 years on the road, they found an off grid property that they wanted to call home in Southeastern Arizona. This brought a host of new challenges that came with learning how to homestead, let alone homestead in the high desert. Completely … Continue reading →

Episode-2586- Small House – Big Land Living with Beau Brotherton

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Beau and his wife Kelly are the kind of people who see what could be and don’t hesitate to make it happen. With their four kids, they sold their 2000 sqft suburban home to do this crazy thing of converting a 16×48 shed into a full time home. A year into this adventure, they are in the process of restoring the land and building a permaculture homestead. Beau is the creator of the Better Together Life Youtube channel and Podcast, Shed to House Facebook group, and is the author of the “Get Off Your Tail and Homestead” book.  He joins … Continue reading →

Episode-2541- Off Grid Tiny Home Life in the Wilderness

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Ariel lives off grid in a tiny house nestled into the western mountains of Wyoming, a little over 6000 feet above sea level. She splits her own wood for heat, carries water by hand, uses a composting toilet, and attempts to grow, hunt, or forage as much of her own food as possible between the weather and wildlife she’s surrounded by. As a child, she was fortunate enough to be able to spend much of her free time exploring and playing in the woods. Little has changed now that she older. She moved to a place with a bigger woods … Continue reading →

Episode-2522- The Serenity Bus Project with Brian and Sherry Hamons

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The Serenity Bus Project is and adventure being taken by a family of 6. Led by husband and wife team Brian and Sherry Hamons they have sold our home, left their jobs, and converted a 40′ school bus into a tiny home on wheels.  They are about to begin a journey traveling across North America. Their plan is to travel the U.S and Canada for a year as a family, then who knows. They join us today to discuss school bus conversions and the “skoolie owners” community.  Living in a tiny house.  Homeschooling and the advantages of doing so while … Continue reading →

Episode-2409- Fast, Affordable, DIY Off Grid Building with AirCrete

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Our guest Daniel Allen says that for $38 per square foot you can build a DIY off grid home finished with appliances. That it’s possible to throw a few simple tools and a pallet of cement in your truck and go build the shell of a cabin, in a month at any location you can get water to.  That this is all possible with AirCrete. AirCrete is a home made cellular cement product with structural & insulating properties. When you make AirCrete cement is inflated 6 times its volume with air bubbles. When building a dome it is rot proof, … Continue reading →

Episode-2326- Teri Page on Homesteading with Children

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Teri Page is the blogger behind the popular homesteading website, Homestead Honey. Her homesteading adventures have taken her from Oregon.  Where she planted her first vegetables and fell in love with a dirt-covered lifestyle. They then moved on to Missouri, where her family built an off the grid homestead from scratch and lived in a 350 square-foot tiny house without running water.  Eventually they moved to Vermont, where Teri now homesteads with her husband and two children. Teri has chronicled her adventures at Homestead Honey, a blog that covers topics from Tiny House Living, to gardening, to fermented foods, general homesteading … Continue reading →

Episode-2281- James Burnette on Tiny Houses for Survival

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James Burnette is the founder of Survival Punk.  He has stated that Survivalpunk has become the most important thing in his life and the biggest achievement in his life so far. It has brought him more happiness, more friends, and more fulfillment in my life. James takes a rational, creative approach to self-reliance, applying a punk DIY ethic to survivalism without any of the fear mongering or “tinfoil hattery” found in some other areas of the survivalist movement.  His site and podcast were inspired strait out of the TSP community.  He even previously visited me at my old homestead in … Continue reading →

Episode-1851- Chris Haynes on Off Grid Tiny Homes

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Chris Haynes is an electrical and software engineer. He moved from a full size grid connected house to an off grid tiny house located on a rural lot. He has built a very small (66sf) tiny house and a code compliant 252sf tiny house where he currently lives. He has been living off grid for over 4 years using a very simple and inexpensive solar system. He shares his experiences in tiny house living at conferences held in the northeast US. He just released a new book called “Tiny House Engineers Notebook: Volume 1, Off Grid Power”. Its written in … Continue reading →

Episode-1508- Building with Shipping Containers

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Chuck (Uzi4U2 on the TSP forum) has built a cabin from shipping containers in the northern Ozarks of Missouri. He spent 15 years in the Marine Corps as an NBC specialist and then Chief Warrant Officer. Chuck served in Dessert Storm, the beginning stages of OIF and has spent considerable time on and near sea ports. He has an Associates Degree in Criminal Justice and a Bachelor’s in Information System Management. He shoots as often as he can get away, and reloads and casts his own bullets to feed his hobby. Lastly, he is an Eagle Scout, which really began … Continue reading →