Hello! There’s something to be said about that feeling of learning a skill that sets you ahead of your former self. Looking back one week, a day or maybe a year; realising that you have grown and improved. I could not help but think about this again over the last weekend. We had a quiet(er)…
Hello friends of Simple-Earth. It feels good to reach out and write another post again after several weeks of having my hands full. We have been working on the sale of our small, fertile little homestead in the Tulbagh area. At the same time we’ve been grafting through the purchase of our 80ha piece of…
I think it is about time to revisit this topic casually. There is a lot of misunderstanding and, frankly, weirdness, when we have visitors outside of the off-grid/simplicity/subsistence community. Opinions and interpretations are like beards. Not everyone’s got it, but those who do won’t admit that theirs frequently has some pastry crumbs in it. So…
There is a tale worth sharing by almost everyone, if that tale defines a purpose in life, inspires a soul to unshackle itself and resolves the lifelong problem of figuring out where we all belong. This, which you are reading here, will be my rendition of one, a true one too. Ironically, it starts with…
It is not just in tough times that we need to look after ourselves. Self-reliance is a means, a way of life that ensures a supply of needed (and in today’s example, wanted) things. Relying on shops, currency, health and other dastardly things like supply chains leaves a very vulnerable area of attack to anyone.…