Our hand-dug well is now complete, bringing drinking water on our island. Water is life.

Completing Our Own Well | Self-Sufficient Island Homestead

Time to take it more slowly for the coming winter months as our root cellar is filled with food.

Living Off Our Land? An Honest Look at Our Harvest

Building a Traditional Well for Our Island Homestead (Part 3)

The Harvest Begins at Our Self-Sufficient Island Homestead

Klaus dug this well by hand. #islandlife #offgrid #handdugwell

We Built a Solar Boat… Now We’re Putting It to Real Test

Highlights of Beekeeping 2026

See how we prepared our root cellar to store our harvest there for the winter. #offgrid

Important Homestead Preparations Before Winter

We have a solar powered boat for our off-grid island homestead. #diy #solarpower #offgrid

Building a Simple Solar Boat For Our Island Life

This Is What a Year’s Supply of Berries Looks Like

What It Takes To Manually Dig a Well (Part 2.)

This Is What True Self-Sufficiency Looked Like - Full Tour

Re-learning old skills. #offgrid

How to Find and Use Clay for Natural Building

Why We Abandoned City Life for an Off-Grid Lifestyle

Hand digging a well seems to be the hardest of the hardest jobs! #offgrid #selfsufficiency

What It Takes to Manually Dig Your Own Well

Building a Traditional Fence with Only Natural Forest Materials

What Our Island Garden Looks Like — For Realistic Homesteaders

We're so excited to teach our son skills related to selfsufficiency. #gardening

Here's how we preserved this green gold this year. I simply love spruce tips. 💚

Our favorite way of making dandelion infusion. #dandelions

Garden Work & Getting Ready for Sheep | Off-Grid Life

Our Self-Sufficient Life: 4 Days Growing Food by Hand (Step by Step & Tips and Tricks)

Off Grid Island Living Self Sufficient Gardening Tips! 1

Grow Your Own Food Crisis Resistance & Healthy Living 1

Pike Catch Our Fish Trap Success!

Why Self-Sufficiency in Food Isn't the Real Goal #shorts

How to Make Buildings Last 100 Years

How We're Growing Our Selfsufficient Food (Step by Step & Tips and Tricks)

Closed cycle of nutrients means everything taken, must be returned.

This way human waste can be used as compostvin garden!

Neutralize all roots and add nutrients to the bottom of the field.Long & deep roots = big vegetables

Efficient weeding technique for manual tools and #selfsufficient #offgrid gardening #offgrid

#Fishing will play important role on #selfsufficient food. #selfreliance #offgrid

How We’re Expanding Our Self-Sufficient Food System (Step by Step & Tips and Tricks)

Will our seedlings survive under the snow? #selfsufficiency

When Machinery Fails You Can Depend on Manual Tools. #survival #offgrid #diy

Salvaging second hand logs to easily make walls for our log cabin extension

Timing your work to the cycle of nature can radically make things easier!

How I'm Going To Build an Off Grid Log Cabin Extension For Cheap (Part 1)

When the Ice Finally Breaks | Spring Life on a Self-Sufficient Island

Weak ice isolates us twice a year. This is always a great opportunity to enjoy how life slows down.

Disconnected by Thin Ice — Spring Work on Our Off Grid Island

The Cheapest Way to Build a Self-Sufficient Homestead

Nutritious soil is the foundation of growing your own food. 🌱 #offgrid #masonryoven #firewood