Off-Grid and Free: Siting a House and Elements of Our New Homestead

Reader Contribution by Ron Melchiore
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The Off-Grid and Free series recounts one homesteading couple’s journey to build a new homestead in Nova Scotia.Read the full series here. Find the author’s book, Off-Grid and Free: My Path to the Wilderness, at Moon Willow Press.

In our last installment, we built the road in to the new homestead and did the land clearing with our trusty chainsaw. Now that we had an area cleared for the new homestead, it was time to site the house and from there, lay out the rest of the elements. Where would the garden, herb garden, woodshed, compost bins, solar panels, septic system, water well and orchard go in relation to the house? Where were the best paths to access views of the ocean and branch out for firewood gathering as well as walking paths?

House Location is Priority

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