They adjusted their schedules to work in the early morning hours when it was cooler. They’ve figured out different methods of providing shade when outside, or planting trees that would grow up and eventually shade their house. After they made it through that first summer they figured they could do anything. The first year they moved to their land there was a drought and it didn’t go below 85 degrees for about a month. Her response was that not having air-conditioning was one of the most difficult things to get used to.
I had the opportunity to ask Stacy what the biggest challenge was when transitioning from “on-grid” to “off-grid” living. Image courtesy of Off-Grid with Doug & Stacy The Biggest Challenge of Living Off-Grid They also regularly got exposed to a minimum of 20 minutes of midday sun each day for proper vitamin D production. Stacy especially noticed that getting outside before 9 AM to get early morning sunlight was helpful in regulating hormones. Their lifestyle is such that they’re outside in nature on a daily basis. Hormone RegulationĪnother benefit of living off-grid is that they’re outside many more hours than when they lived in the city. Something that Stacy recommends for people who seem to have a difficult time losing weight, despite a healthy diet and adequate physical activity, is to focus on achieving solid deep sleep each night. If you don’t get adequate sleep, especially deep sleep, then your cortisol levels are higher than they should be which affects hormone balance and all sorts of other issues. In order to achieve deep sleep, it’s important to remove electronic devices from your bedroom and eliminate artificial light a few hours before bedtime. I can't stand fakes.Image courtesy of Off-Grid with Doug & Stacy Better Sleepĭeep sleep is essential for your health. If not, go away< If you've got calloused hands, show us what you know. But this is a sore spot with me, the whole "homesteading" thing. Then he and his wife did a video about why they're leaving the homesteading thing, followed by a stupid presentation a few months later about how they didn't mean they're actually leaving, followed by an entirely new set of "how to" videos in which he does little or no actual physical labor and yet he's got all this supposed knowledge and skill. In the early months he generated interest because he had a series of witty interviews with an accountant friend where they bantered about the feasibility of whether raising chickens or whatever, would actually be cost effective, then his account friend would approve or disapprove based on the numbers. But he's no more able to run a homestead than Ronald McDonald. He has all kinds of videos on "how to" regarding supposed successful homesteading. Time to sell his sweet little calf, you can see the torment in his eyes. He's worked his farm for a long time, raises his kids and brings them along on daily chores, shows you if he's got a dead chicken or a sick animal, what his family actually eats daily, and when it's time for processing his livestock, he hides nothing. Justin Rhodes is another example of the real deal. Art & Bri are an example of "hey we've never done this before and here's what's working or not working". I want to see people are a really trying and not pretending they have all this experience if they don't. Just because they look good and have a lovely log home does not make them true homesteaders. Doug & Stacey strike me as not authentic. If you watch a few episodes of each host, ie Doug & Stacey, Justin Rhodes, Art & Bri, Homesteady, SkillCult etc, you probably notice which ones are genuine-either in terms of actual skill or at least sincere effort in acquiring needed skills-and which ones are trying to come off as something they're not.
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