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Old Fashioned On Purpose

S4 E4: Creating a Sustainable Off-Grid Homestead with (Amber Bradshaw)

Old Fashioned On Purpose

Jill Winger

Cows, Home & Garden, Education, Cooking, Homesteading, Leisure, Hobbies, Canning, Chickens, Homestead, Farm, Gardening, Farming, How To

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What do you do when the power goes out? For most of us, this is something we never think about and generally take for granted. However, the recent events in Texas and in some other areas of the country have re-enforced my interest in becoming self-sufficient when it comes to electricity. Today I'm thrilled to be joined by Amber Bradshaw. Amber is an author and her family's journey to off-grid living has been featured on the History Channel, Discovery Channel, and the D...

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0:00.4

So what do you do when the power goes out?

0:03.8

I know I have been thinking about this question

0:06.0

a lot more lately,

0:07.8

not only after watching the horrible power outages

0:11.2

that hit Texas a few months ago,

0:13.4

but also after going through our own historic record breaking,

0:18.1

whatever you wanna call it,

0:19.0

snowmageddon a few weeks ago here on our homestead,

0:23.2

where we didn't lose power,

0:24.4

but the neighboring town actually did,

0:26.9

and they were out for 40 plus hours.

0:30.2

So I've been pondering this a lot lately,

0:33.2

thinking about how we can be more prepared

0:35.4

for both short term outages,

0:37.2

but also maybe long term outages too.

0:40.9

However, I am far from an expert on this topic,

0:44.4

so I decided to bring on someone who knows her stuff

0:49.0

when it comes to off-grid living

0:50.8

and holy moly, you are going to love this episode.

0:55.5

Amber Bradshaw lives off-grid in the mountains

0:58.3

of East Tennessee with her family of five.

1:01.8

Her family was actually featured on an episode

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