An experiment in owning less and exploring more.
Follow along as a highly-paid lawyer gives up a life of material comfort and unencumbered excess, and embraces the beauty and freedom of simple happiness.
This is our story of our journey to find our true values and apply them to our lives. Watch us change everything about ourselves as we move from the six figure funded ties which bind the American middle class to Cage Free movement toward our true dreams; a farmstead funded healing community in the wild of Vermont.
Escape the 9 to 5 life, anywhere.
Nature, gardening and sustainable community website filled with feature articles!
A website dedicated to our cordwood building adventure and living a more self-sufficient lifestyle.
Online resource for learning all about the practical arts of simple, self-sufficient living!
This site details ways that you can help defeat consumerism, save money, work less and lead a more satisfying and environmentally benign life while helping to restore the economic self-sufficiency of your community.
Read about the detailed account of a family of five living successfully the return to basics philosophy. The site includes produce results (3,300 pounds on 3,900 sq.ft in 11 months for 2002, results of solar cooking, and much much more.
Contains an entire resource directory of information on homesteading (self-sufficiency, small farming, sustainable agriculture, horticulture, permaculture, organic gardening, animal husbandry, etc.), wildlife management (ecology, conservation, stewardship, etc.), alternative and vernacular housing (straw bale, cob, cordwood, adobe, stuccoed sandbags, rammed earth, tire, earth-bermed, sod-roofed, thatch-roofed, underground, tree houses, houseboats, …)
Author of ‘Farewell, my Subaru’. Can a regular American kick his addiction to oil and live more locally while still dancing to thumping subwoofers and not looking like a refugee from a Rainbow Gathering?