Solar dryer
At last! It may be pouring wolves and leopards – and very welcome it is too, after so many drought years – but we finally have a solar dryer. I […]
Category Archives: Off-grid
How to use less water
In which we are solvent… Finally, our water supply system is up and running. It’s wonderful (but unreal) to have water on tap again. …but wondering why water isn’t rationed […]
Seasons greetings and the short view
Here’s wishing all my friends on WordPress a Merry Christmas and/or a happy Vaikuntha Ekadasi, and a wonderful New Year. Let’s hope 2021 is better than 2020. Did you see […]
Stove-top baking
As we are off grid, I’m always experimenting with alternate cooking methods. On sunny days, of course, the solar cooker is the best option. And it does double duty – […]
Old stones: My trusty kalloral
Also known as an aattukal, the kalloral or wet grinding stone used to be an indispensable tool in every south Indian home. Then there was the flat ammi kal, which […]
Enjoying summer without fridge or fan
Until I was about ten, we had no fridge in our house. And again, when I got married, we couldn’t afford one, so we did without for the first four […]
Off the grid
They went to sea in a Sieve, they did, In a Sieve they went to sea: In spite of all their friends could say, On a winter’s morn, on a […]
The Long View 