Tips about and stories of~Off-grid Living:Tell us what interests you!

[Beekissed]

If you were to be interested in an SS book written about actual happenings, what part would interest you the most?

How to get started?
How to do certain chores without electricity?
How to grow things?
Raise animals?
How to cope without the world?
How to cook on a wood stove(can, bake, etc.)?
A typical day?
How kids fare with no conveniences?


Anything else you can think of....just let me know what you would be interested in if you were to choose this book off the library shelf. Would you be interested in the story or the details or both, like in Farmer Boy? Would you want it to be filled with personal details or only the facts about the actual life/living in a sustainable way off-grid?

 

[redhen]

If you were to be interested in an SS book written about actual happenings, what part would interest you the most?

How to get started?
How to do certain chores without electricity?
How to grow things?
Raise animals?
How to cope without the world?
How to cook on a wood stove(can, bake, etc.)?
A typical day?
How kids fare with no conveniences?


Anything else you can think of....just let me know what you would be interested in if you were to choose this book off the library shelf. Would you be interested in the story or the details or both, like in Farmer Boy? Would you want it to be filled with personal details or only the facts about the actual life/living in a sustainable way off-grid?

I'd be interested in:
How to get started
How to grow things
How to raise animals
Cooking/canning on a wood stove
A typical day

 

[SKR8PN]

I'd be interested in: How to get started?
How to do certain chores without electricity?
How to grow things?
Raise animals?
How to cope without the world?
How to cook on a wood stove(can, bake, etc.)?
A typical day?

 

[punkin]

How to can/cook on a woodstove would get my money any day.

 

[Quail_Antwerp]

I'd mostly be intrested in true, yet humorous, ancedotes about actually living that way.

Follow that up with the following:
How to do certain chores without electricity?
How to cope without the world?
How to cook on a wood stove(can, bake, etc.)?
A typical day?

 

[FarmerChick]

If you were to be interested in an SS book written about actual happenings, what part would interest you the most?

How to get started?
How to do certain chores without electricity?
How to grow things?
Raise animals?
How to cope without the world?
How to cook on a wood stove(can, bake, etc.)?
A typical day?
How kids fare with no conveniences?


Anything else you can think of....just let me know what you would be interested in if you were to choose this book off the library shelf. Would you be interested in the story or the details or both, like in Farmer Boy? Would you want it to be filled with personal details or only the facts about the actual life/living in a sustainable way off-grid?

All of the above and more probably......but I would want true facts and lessons on how to do it all.....and have the funny story of true life combined.

alot of work to do that but would be a great read.

 

[freemotion]

I really like Carla Emery's book, lots of instructions with stories mixed throughout. But I'd like more stories, actually. Maybe Carla Emery meets Laura Ingalls Wilder.

 

[FarmerChick]

You could think 2 ways

just a factual how to book

then as you are writing that technical type manual----at the same time write a side bit about how it worked for the family, funny disaster stuff, good outcomes etc. etc. and combine all that into a second book

write the factual how to book first, then the extra stuff you wrote separate can be combined later into another book and you could take your time by splitting them instead of tackling a big hard monster book at one time

make sense...LOL-LOL

I sure couldn't tackle one. I can't write a lick or wouldn't even try..LOL

 

[2dream]

I would love to know all that stuff Bee. Especially how to do it while working full time. LOL

Most of the books out there seem to be geared to people who for some reason or other don't need jobs.

 

[freemotion]

I suspect many of these people work up to the point where they no longer need jobs, or just take outside work on occasion. That is probably why they have time to write the books!

Or maybe they have a secret trust fund, left to them by a wealthy relative....