Working On Our Beautiful 18 Acre Nearly Off Grid homestead

We are striving to become self sufficient and fully off the grid on a budget. We are nearly fully off the grid now by using the power of the sun for most of our needs from cooking, to heating water to powering our home.

We are still connected to the power grid for some necessities like the water pump and occasional washing machine use.

We hope to eliminate even those energy needs soon as well by improving our solar power production.

We are working hard on the homestead, beautifying the property.

We are growing a lot of vegetables in our gardens in hope of providing most of our food needs in a year.

I got my riding lawn mower fixed up and running, which you have seen in previous posts, and mowed the lawn in comfort for once. This machine is way better than using a push mower for our huge lawn.

We have been picking blueberries every day for an hour or two while they are in season. We are putting away food for the winter. And blueberries are packed full of nutrition.

We baked blueberry muffins in our GoSun solar oven. It somehow tastes better when cooked with the free power of the sun.

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We continued working on our yard and garden plots. Melanie was picking more blueberries as I mowed the lawn. I also mowed pathways for us to walk through our large property. We have 2.8 acres up front and 15 acres of wild forest out back. Our homestead is surrounded by wild State land so we have a nice place to build up our homestead.

I used the last of the free mulch I had received by spreading it on the garden pathways. This gives us a clean place to walk and sit while working in the garden. And it keeps the weeds out so we have less work overall.

Melanie planted some onions that we got for free in our new garden plot.

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