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Nelle's Homesteading Workshops - with a make-and-take

Living Off-the-Grid: Basics ...and Luxuries

Meet Nelle. She is a living schoolroom of everything you need to know to thrive on your own homestead. Each class will teach you a different hands-on homestead experience. Meets on the 4th Tuesday.

Nell will talk about different levels of Off-Grid living and her personal experiences in reaching off-grid goals. Get ideas, find out costs and equipment needed, and consider local ordinances.

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  Roughing it is an extreme form of off-grid living. This is the cheapest way to live off-grid, but as you can imagine, it’s also the most challenging. If you decide to have electricity, then you will likely have a generator or solar panels. Cooking is usually done in and around the hearth, wood stove, or fire pit.
• Partial Off-Grid Living is the easiest for most people. It consists of significantly reducing dependence on municipal resources while increasing self-sufficiency. You might have some chickens for eggs and grow about half of your own food. You will likely have a cold cellar full of preserves like jams, pickled vegetables, and root vegetables, and hang their laundry on the line instead of using a clothes dryer.
• Comfortable, Fully Off-Grid Living requires a lot of money to set up, but if done well it can be incredibly comfortable and rewarding. Furthermore, you won’t be so dependent upon any outside resources to keep you warm, fed, and hydrated. People who live fully off-grid are completely self-sufficient. They have several different power sources and plenty of clean water, but they’ll also have tons of modern conveniences. They may have a solar-powered septic system, for example, and electric vehicles that they can charge up themselves.

This workshop is limited to 40 participants.

Advance registration with payment required by June 22.

Fee: $10 includes materials.

You may pay on-line or at the library.

Open to tweens, teens and adults.

Nelle's Workshops are sponsored in part by Community Library Friends.

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