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How We Do Stuff

Mar 16 2020

Why the THING is not the thing

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

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: How We Do Stuff

Feb 03 2020

The Walking Living: One Day on My Fitness Mission

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 […]

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, Exercise and Fitness, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Life · Tagged: fitness, workout

Jul 09 2018

How we do Stuff: Why you should buy baskets

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, How We Do Stuff, Video

Sep 11 2017

Making Sauerkraut, the Plain and Frugal Way

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.  

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, Food Preservation, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living

Sep 23 2016

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

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.

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living · Tagged: batteries, lights, Mesquite Coffee, Off-Grid, water

Oct 15 2015

How To Make Coffee After The World Ends

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…

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, How To, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid, Off Grid Life, Off Grid Living, Recipes

Jul 30 2015

How We Do Stuff: Staying Cool Beyond Off-Grid

“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 […]

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: How We Do Stuff · Tagged: air-conditioning, Amish, cistern, homesteading, Off-Grid, prepper, root cellar, staying cool, Survival

Jun 29 2015

Harvesting Wheat by Hand

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.

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, How We Do Stuff · Tagged: harvest, homesteading, Off-Grid, prepper, Survival, wheat

May 22 2015

How We Do That… Off-Grid, Part 1

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…

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: How We Do Stuff · Tagged: Amish, Off-Grid, Survival, Technology

May 11 2015

Living Beyond Off-Grid as a Scifi Writer

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 […]

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, Brother Frankenstein, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living, Uncategorized, Writing · Tagged: brother frank, Off-Grid, writing

Jan 28 2015

The Mud Years

 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 […]

Written by Michael Bunker · Categorized: blog, How We Do Stuff, Off Grid Living, Uncategorized

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