Living Off Grid – An Average Winter Day

Reader Contribution by Ed Essex
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Our winter lifestyle here is different from where we came from so we thought we should share what a typical day is like. When I say winter, I really mean sometime in October to sometime in April — that’s how long we have snow.

We typically have snow here that averages about 3 feet deep once it builds up to that. We don’t usually get more than a few inches at a time. It settles and then snows a little more but it stays around 3 feet deep.

Like summer time, Laurie and I work from 7AM to 5PM seven days a week.

Animals: Laurie does most of the animal work. She takes care of the dog, cats, chickens, and horses. The horses graze on our acreage in the summer but need hay in the winter. We have some beautiful and affordable river bottom hay from a friend of ours. Plus the water needs to have the ice broken twice a day so they can drink.

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