Starting in the 1840s, brave pioneers embarked on a perilous 2000 mile journey across the vast American frontier known as the Oregon Trail. An estimated half million people traveled the treacherous trail,

Howdy pardners 🤠 I have been a busy bee here in Arizona as I expand my search for beautiful gemstones and minerals! This is an abandoned fluorite mine in southern Arizona. I found it on an old map and

Learn primitive fire starting techniques with me! Starting a fire from sparks using rocks is one of the most valuable primitive fire starting methods. In this video, I teach you how to identify spark creating

We are getting hit by a tidal wave of so much media, that we are beginning to lose our true paths in this world. The Age of Content Supersaturation is here. The amount of content we are consuming is reaching

Here in the USA, we have these huge stores such as Lowe's, Home Depot, and Walmart that are packed full of products. Everything has gotten super expensive with inflation, so I try to find deals when and

Welcome to Café en la Granja (Coffee on the Farm)! This is my coffee shop holiday with an off-grid twist! There aren't any human visitors except for me here at Café en la Granja, but there are plenty of

Its been an intense month, with over 200 hours of my blood, sweat, and tears being poured into my homestead garden. Everything had to be moved, redone, dug, installed, repaired, planted within a short

Join me on my journey to getting my garden all cleaned up for an awesome Arizona homestead gardening season! This is an epic cleanup, my entire garden is in complete shambles. I had to put the pedal to

When I became a solo homesteader one and a half years ago, I moved into my 9x12' (2.75x3.6m) shed and did not have much time to really plan things out because of my situation. I did not think I would still

Welcome to the Maximum Off Grid Podcast! Today, I am talking about 15 minute cities in a way that nobody else is. I did major research into active and proposed 15 minute cities to bring you the facts.

Phew. I have been thru the ringer, but it really was all of my own accord. I have had a rough go at the homesteading lifestyle, to the point where I actually left my property for the better part of the

I was off to a rough start when I started the shed life, but now that I am growing accustom to the lifestyle, I am really starting to enjoy it. If you have been following me, you will know that my partner

Nightmares of never waking up due to carbon monoxide poisoning, and peeing all over myself in the middle of the night. Ugh. Alright, so I have officially moved into my Tiny House aka the 9x12 shed. I made

I am the proud parent of power tools! As I am working thru this break up with my partner, I am left with NO TOOLS, and that doesn't work very well with homesteading. Tools are extremely valuable when you

When going off grid, living in the woods, desert, snow, or whatever your environment is, there is one constant, and that is yourself. The landscape around you may change. The seasons will most definitely

This last Sunday, there was an incident between my partner and I. We had been drinking and we got into an alcohol fueled fight - over money, of all things. It did not end well for me, or for him. We decided

With the advent of LED grow lights, it doesn't take much cost to grow produce indoors anymore. I always prefer to grow my produce outside, as it is the most natural state for a plant to thrive in. Outdoor

For this Christmas podcast episode, we are asking you all what you want for Christmas! You can participate by joining our live stream event, which will actually be right on Christmas, Saturday December

I am getting a really early start on prepping the garden this year, as there is so much work to be done and April will be sneaking up on us quickly! We built a 40x30 ft crop cage last year - I like to

I want to share with you guys a really crappy situation we have been with our solar power system. This has been a continuing saga for months now, and it has greatly affected our off grid situation and