I want to paint a picture for you, and it’s not a pretty one. It’s 30 degrees, and lightly snowing with a crisp, 15-mile-per-hour wind blowing in my face. For the last hour, I’ve been kneeling next to ...

Starting an off-grid adventure with a self-built composting toilet in the wilderness.

We left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain to live off-grid. After two years of renovating an old stone house and restoring abandoned land, our toilet experience has ...