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How We Do Stuff

Why the THING is not the thing

March 16, 2020 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Michael Bunker chats about the Coronavirus, Unintended Consequences, and why the THING is not the thing.

Filed Under: How We Do Stuff

The Walking Living: One Day on My Fitness Mission

February 3, 2020 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Sunday (Yesterday) was the beginning of my fourth week on my 5 month fitness mission, so I thought I’d keep a short journal of the day to share here. I mentioned in my original post on this mission that I weighed 224lbs fifteen years ago when I was in my 30s and we had just […]

Filed Under: blog, Exercise and Fitness, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Life Tagged With: fitness, workout

How we do Stuff: Why you should buy baskets

July 9, 2018 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Filed Under: blog, How We Do Stuff, Video

Making Sauerkraut, the Plain and Frugal Way

September 11, 2017 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

I made a video for you! This is making sauerkraut the old school way, with the philosophy behind fermentation rather than a focus on ingredients and recipes.  

Filed Under: blog, Food Preservation, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living

A Day in the Life of an Off-Grid Author, Part 1

September 23, 2016 by Michael Bunker 2 Comments

That’s something you have to think about in this life – another thing that makes life deliberate – you can’t just flip a switch and expect light to miraculously appear. Light is something you have to think about beforehand.

Filed Under: blog, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living Tagged With: batteries, lights, Mesquite Coffee, Off-Grid, water

How To Make Coffee After The World Ends

October 15, 2015 by Michael Bunker 22 Comments

Mesquite Coffee became very popular in Texas during the war years 1861-1865 when coffee made from coffee beans became unavailable. And the thing is, Mesquite Coffee is not a “sacrifice.” It is actually a fantastic coffee beverage, and doesn’t at all taste like a coffee substitute…

Filed Under: blog, How To, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid, Off Grid Life, Off Grid Living, Recipes

How We Do Stuff: Staying Cool Beyond Off-Grid

July 30, 2015 by Michael Bunker 6 Comments

“I find your lifestyle very compelling, but I could never live without air-conditioning.” This is probably the statement I have heard the most over the last ten years from people who cannot believe that we are able to live, and thrive, without most of the modern conveniences that 1st world humans take for granted. I […]

Filed Under: How We Do Stuff Tagged With: air-conditioning, Amish, cistern, homesteading, Off-Grid, prepper, root cellar, staying cool, Survival

Harvesting Wheat by Hand

June 29, 2015 by Michael Bunker 13 Comments

I promised several people I’d do a post wherein I share our process of harvesting wheat by hand. Harvesting is actually a small part of the whole process of taking wheat from the field to a usable final product, so although I named this post “Harvesting” Wheat by Hand, I’ll actually include the post-harvest steps of threshing and winnowing.

Filed Under: blog, How We Do Stuff Tagged With: harvest, homesteading, Off-Grid, prepper, Survival, wheat

How We Do That… Off-Grid, Part 1

May 22, 2015 by Michael Bunker 12 Comments

About ten days ago I penned a blog post here entitled Living Beyond Off-Grid as a Sci-fi Writer, and it seemed to resonate with a lot of people because it got some attention and was shared around the Internets quite a bit. It also raised a substantial number of questions…

Filed Under: How We Do Stuff Tagged With: Amish, Off-Grid, Survival, Technology

Living Beyond Off-Grid as a Scifi Writer

May 11, 2015 by Michael Bunker 4 Comments

Not long ago I was in a hardware store in a small town not far from our farm. I was with my son buying plumbing parts for a water project for the farm. Robert and I were at the register with our PVC valves, couplers, and adapters when the clerk, a friendly local fellow named Buck, started […]

Filed Under: blog, Brother Frankenstein, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living, Uncategorized, Writing Tagged With: brother frank, Off-Grid, writing

The Mud Years

January 28, 2015 by Michael Bunker 2 Comments

 This whole thing is a metaphor. It still works and is true the way it’s written, but sometimes I’m too subtle so… this whole thing is a metaphor. We live completely off-grid on an off-grid farm in an off-grid community. The grid really doesn’t have much to do with my topic today, but I thought […]

Filed Under: blog, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living, Uncategorized

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