A Glimpse Into the First Winter on Our Off-Grid Homestead (with Video)

Reader Contribution by Alyssa Craft
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Last year, in September of 2015, we had the opportunity to finally pursue our dream of starting an off grid homestead from scratch. After our Realtor gave us a call to let us know that the land was officially ours, we found ourselves hitting the road, cargo in tow, just five days later to begin our new life.

It’s easy to dream of starting a homestead, and we had all sorts of ideas about what it would be like. We knew that we wanted to build a home and do so affordably, so it wasn’t going to happen right away. We were okay with this and decided that we could put up some sort of temporary housing to get us by in the meantime, such as a yurt or a travel trailer. We ultimately decided on a travel trailer.

Because we moved to the Pacific Northwest, we knew that winters were going to be more hash than what we were accustomed to in Southern Oregon. Originally, we had planned on having a small barn built by winter so that we would have something to heat with a wood stove and to park our travel trailer in.

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