NB Offgrid Living

Sharing is caring! There are arguably many necessities of life. Food, water, oxygen, light, shelter, clothing, etc. Some will argue we need love, companionship, physical activity, and so on. However, when reduced to the absolute basic needs of life, we find there are actually just four. Food, Water, Shelter, and Clothing We already get sunlight […]

Sharing is caring! 22 Foods That Last Forever! There are many foods that, if stored properly, will last forever, or at least longer than you will. The following list of 22 foods are the most popular we have found and we believe at least a few of these should be in your emergency food storage.

Sharing is caring! If you’ve never seen this epic fail of wood splitting danger it’s a must see. Basically it’s a spinning wheel of death and dismemberment. It’s an accident waiting to happen. It appears to be made of a tractor trailer rim, filled with concrete to give it mass and weight, with a giant

Sharing is caring! Here’s a quick video from Household Hacker showing how to make an oil lamp in less than a minute from an orange and some olive oil. This is a cool homesteading hack that you can do quickly and easily to produce emergency light. I’ve seen a few versions of this orange oil

Sharing is caring! Want to know how to choose a good knife? That’s easy. Don’t buy crap! Here are some good knife brands by type, quality and price. This is a quick “short list” of brands I would go with when choosing a good knife. Brands I’ve personally used in the field, and brands I

Sharing is caring! Image Source: Rappler.com The Philippines was hit with the Mother of all Typhoons in November of 2013. With death tolls in the thousands and over a million people displaced from their homes, Typhoon Yolanda was one of the worst typhoons ever recorded. From Wikipedia: Typhoon Haiyan, known in the Philippines as Typhoon

Sharing is caring! This shelter is built directly from the land with bare hands and pure knowledge of primitive building skills. The best part is it’s built for free, and anyone can build it with simple primitive skills as demonstrated here by Primitive Technology on YouTube. Not only does this young man build the shelter,

Sharing is caring! It could happen to you… you might have to drink water from a source you don’t trust like the pond down the road or a barrel of rainwater. You might be forced to drink water from a lake or creek near your home. Is it safe? I don’t know, but I would

Sharing is caring! The most basic of human needs is clean drinking water. Water is what, at least here on Earth, makes life possible and helps it thrive. Unfortunately, there are many areas of the world that lack access to a reliable and clean source of drinking water. There are various companies producing a variety

Sharing is caring! Earth batteries have been used off and on for various purposes since at least the 1840s with one version or another dating back a few centuries. So what is an earth battery? Well, it is basically taking two dissimilar metals, such as iron and copper, burying them in the ground, or in