In the Kitchen:
- baking/cooking from
scratch
- yogurtmaking
- breadmaking
- cheesemaking
- sprouting
- cast iron cookware
- no dishwasher or
microwave
Composting Methods:
- making/using EM Bokashi
- vermicomposting
- composting food, garden
and green waste
Fuel:
- homebrewing biodiesel
- running diesel car on
biodiesel(~4,000 miles a yr)
Energy Conservation:
- "powering down"
- cut daily energy use in 1/2
12 kwh to 6 kwh a day
- 12 solar panels
- "green" power
- rechargeable batteries
- line drying clothes
Energy Efficient Appliances:
- washing machine
- refridgerator
- water heater(gas)
Energy Efficient Electronics:
- computer/printer/copier
- TV(no cable)/VCR/ DVD
Energy Efficient Lighting:
- compact fluorescent bulbs
- olive oil lamps
- oil lamps filled with
biodiesel
- homemade soy & beeswax
candles
- daylighting
- solar tube
Living Simply:
- making use or do without
- bartering
- monthly shopping trips
- reduce, reuse & recycle
- second hand clothes
- salvage/thrift store
- consume less
Passive Cooling:
- no AC
- wood floors
- blinds
- windows
- screen doors
- edible forest
- "living" screens
- solar attic fan
Heating:
- no central heat
- woodstove that uses
scrap wood
- dress in layers
Walking the old paths:
- tithing
- day of rest
- stewardship
Saving seeds Unschooling Beekeeping
DIY Projects:
- solar oven
- cob oven
- solar outdoor shower
- depaved driveway/patio
- installed solar panels
- roofing
- sheds, etc
- animal enclosure, etc
- this website
- urban homesteading
Using canvas bags on
shopping trips / no plastic
Transportation:
- biodiesel "veggie" vehicle
- 4 "car free" days a week
- walk
- bike
- carpool
- mass transit
- cross country train trips
- 2 airplane trips in 25 years
"Green" Home Upgrades:
- metal roof
Outreach/helping others
along the path
CURRENT TRAILS
Growing 10k on 1/10
Rainwater
Waste water recovery
“The Good Life” takes you to a chance meeting between an MBA and a fisherman on a small island. As the MBA tries to teach the fisherman about business, the fisherman teaches him about life.
The husband, Tommy Waller, left the hustle and bustle behind and took his family to live in the Amish country of Tennessee (near The West Ladies whom I know you know who they are). They eventually left that community and are now serving in Israel. All because the husband led his family through faith to be where God was leading them.
You can find a documentary on them through Netflix titled “A Journey Home.” Check it out some time if you haven’t already.
When Rose Wilder Land was grown and making good money traveling the world and writing for big New York magazines, she had that conversation with her mother. She wanted her parents to move to the city and work city jobs so they could earn more money and have a better life and then retire and enjoy their sunset years. Laura replied that she already had her retirement home in the country, long lazy lanes to walk and time to spend with neighbors and friends. She was living the life that her daughter wanted her to work in the city to have later.
Thanks for posting this video! I looked at Free Range Studios and watched several more of their films. One more voice in the fight for our right to real food and to live a life of simplicity.
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July 22nd, 2009 at 5:45 am
Beautiful Simplicity!
July 22nd, 2009 at 8:58 am
Great story!
Have you ever heard of The Waller Family?
The husband, Tommy Waller, left the hustle and bustle behind and took his family to live in the Amish country of Tennessee (near The West Ladies whom I know you know who they are). They eventually left that community and are now serving in Israel. All because the husband led his family through faith to be where God was leading them.
You can find a documentary on them through Netflix titled “A Journey Home.” Check it out some time if you haven’t already.
July 22nd, 2009 at 10:18 am
thank you for sharing this!
July 22nd, 2009 at 12:26 pm
When Rose Wilder Land was grown and making good money traveling the world and writing for big New York magazines, she had that conversation with her mother. She wanted her parents to move to the city and work city jobs so they could earn more money and have a better life and then retire and enjoy their sunset years. Laura replied that she already had her retirement home in the country, long lazy lanes to walk and time to spend with neighbors and friends. She was living the life that her daughter wanted her to work in the city to have later.
July 23rd, 2009 at 6:48 am
Why don’t more people understand this concept? Thank you for posting this!
July 23rd, 2009 at 7:33 am
Thanks for posting this video! I looked at Free Range Studios and watched several more of their films. One more voice in the fight for our right to real food and to live a life of simplicity.
July 23rd, 2009 at 12:51 pm
thanks for sharing this! once upon a time, i was caught in that corporate hamster wheel too
July 24th, 2009 at 5:38 am
It took me about 30 yrs to become a “fisherman”… better late than never. Thanks for sharing this video. You and your family are truely an inspiration!
And btw, in the post above(July 23), you have a picture of dirty feet. Yes, they are dirty, but they are healthy!
Sincerely,
GarlicMan76458 at http://www.FreedomGardens.org