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Off Grid Living

Destroying some myths and encouraging reason

March 9, 2020 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Michael Bunker discusses the current myth of “panic” buying, anti-prepper snark, mental colonization, and how to think properly.

Filed Under: Off Grid Living

CORONAVIRUS Hoarding RANT

March 8, 2020 by Michael Bunker Leave a Comment

Michael Bunker goes on a rant about Coronavirus insta-experts and social media clowns who want to shame people about “hoarding” or buying toilet paper. Do what you want with your own money, it’s ok by me.

Filed Under: Off Grid Living

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

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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