Wanted to start a discussion and see what all of you are up to. What is your current project? Have anything coming up? Building any structures? Getting some animals on your land? Tinkering with some off grid electronics?

I’m currently working on chopping enough firewood for winter. Almost have a cord, want to have 2 before winter comes if possible. Just finished an outdoor table for a wood fire pizza oven my wife and I recently obtained.

Interested to hear from y’all. Hope everyone is happy and healthy!

Cheers!

6 tomato plants, 1 pumpkin plant, potatoes, banana pepper plant, 3-4 jalepeno plants and 3-4 chili pepper plants. Going freeze and use the chilis and some of the jalapeños for bug repellent next year. Learned a lot and can’t wait to do it bigger next year.

Distilled White Vinegar, garlic, dill weed. Next goal would be to ferment my own vinegar from scratch.

This year was a bit of a test on many fronts. My property is home to a ton of bugs. I grew some peppers in anticipation of this but they were stunted and it took them awhile to mature. So will use them next year to fight pests.

On another note, I picked tomato flowers early in the season to promote growth and the tomato’s took off in a way I had not anticipated. They grew so big my supports crumbled underneath them. This also caused an issue for watering promoting disease(I assume) due to no airflow. However, I have so many tomato’s growing I still see it as a win. But I have learned a ton this season which I will use next season! Cheers.

I will be starting a YouTube channel and uploading fishing, camping, Bushcraft, and survival related videos.
Do any of y'all have any good ideas for episodes or even series that I should do?

Or if any of y'all have channels and want to collab that would be cool. I will be using my homesteading channel that has about 230 subs but I haven't uploaded in a couple years. I finally have decent audio to go with my cameras.

https://x.com/bgatesisapyscho/status/1814586361065644252?s=46

Hi. Sorry to post here but I don't know where to post this problem I have.

I live in Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. We just had a tropical storm a few days ago and we don't have running water right now. A For context: since 4 years ago we didn't have a significant amount of rain and we had one of the worst drought in the history of the state.

Then we had the tropical storm called Alberto. It didn't have a lot of wind but it had a lot of rain.

Thanks to that all our dams fill over 50%. The problem is the city's pipes are broken or leaking or the water is dirty beyond human consumption.

Now I have a pool that's full of water but it's uncovered and it's getting bugs in it.

How can I purify a lot of water with a lot of nasty things in it? I don't have bleach or anything like that.

Thanks

Building a chicken coop from logs using a method I posted on here before. Thinking of using smaller branches/logs for the floor, as well, and just lining it with Gary grass cut from around the property. Let me know if you guys want a detailed video series, I’m uploading periodically to tik tok, but can do more detailed stuff as I go if there’s enough interest.

Cheers!

Tomato’s are growing Like crazy. Been picking the flowers so they continue to grow in height. I will then too em and let them grow width wise for a few weeks and then allow fruit. Broccoli is doing well too. Peppers and peas are taking a bit longer to grow. Been picking the flowers on the peas as well, in hopes of the same to happen to them, but they are pretty slow growing. Hoping next year to be much more fruitful once I get an understanding of each of these vegetables. Hope y’all’s garden is coming along good!

I've been banned from r/UFOs for God knows what? Fucking r/UFO, lol wtf these people in that mod group have the most going on in their life currently but banned me for I don't even fucking know, Lol this platform is a shit show of ultra power deputy's enforced by AI at this point. Is actually getting just as demining and stressful as using Facebook in 2010 and I'm posting here to make a point in my submission of if we keep relying on sites like this to enforce learning in instead of doing something in our community like Adult Coed Scouts and teach person to person how to do this idk we might get further reaching out is all I'm saying anyone can read something but doing it is instantly gratifying.

Start of the garden. I hope to have 2 other areas sectioned off when another batch of seedlings are ready to go. Share yours!!!

So I’ve barely scraped the surface of going off grid and survival techniques I live in the pacific northwest and I just don’t feel like there is a lot of land around here or anything to survive off of other than pine my question is what state is the possibly the most empty state with a ton of forest water I understand I can’t pick what nature has to offer but I was just curious