Tag: Conservation

• Fall in Love for Nature this Autumn

  Here are some tips to grow a great relationship with your yard and local ecosystem, now that summer has finally flipped off the calendar. While you and I are just proverbial drops, our landscape actions accumulate, and then fill the bucket (our local ecology) with a certain flavour – pollution or purity, resilience or climate […]

  Ben Porchuk

  September 19, 2017

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  Autumn, biodiversity, carolinian canada, Climate Change, Conservation, Fall, Healthy Mess, in the zone gardens, nature, World Wildlife Fund

• Ten Life Lessons from Ten+ Years Living Off Grid

  I lived without utility supplied electricity, water, or sanitation for over a decade. Was it all romance, extensive fanfare, and free living? Not a chance. It was time consuming, high maintenance work requiring constant presence. Living off grid means you are a chief maintenance person, head of parts, repairs and the main author and chief responder […]

  Ben Porchuk

  January 6, 2017

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  Climate Change, Comfort, Conservation, Daily Life Cycles, Independent Homesteading, Life Lessons, Little Cabin, nature, Off the Grid Living, Pelee Island, Restorative Nature Experiences, Solar Panels, Water, Water Conservation, Wind Turbines