We keep our chickens on rotating pastures with the help of electrical fences. Find out why and how we do it - and what we really think of the mobile chicken coop known as a Chickshaw.

Simple living means making time for what's really important, putting yourself and your family first and going back to basics. Everybody can do it - will you? 

If you are planning to move off the grid, here are a few things you might want to do while you still have access to them... 

I love my life; I choose what I do when, I live in an beautiful place, and I share this life with the love of my life. However... Every day is the same, and there's always more work waiting. It's time to take a day off - to take a Sunday. 

I had big dreams of self-sufficiency: generating our own power, catching rain water, growing our vegetables and fruit, and keeping chickens and goats. We'd be all self-reliant and have no need for anybody else. I couldn't have been more wrong. 

We live in a free world, yet we are made to believe that our path is cleared for us, as long as we're willing to work for it. All it takes is the right inspiration at the right time to take a different turn though...