Offgrid for 18 May: Flood Safe Toilet Setup, Foundation Shift Tradeoff, Desert Camp Routine

Offgrid is a daily audio summary of the latest ideas, innovations, products, and hard-won lessons for living autonomously and becoming more self-sufficient in energy, tech, food, water, shelter, and everyday systems. This 3-story episode draws from OffGridCabins, OffGridLiving, OffGrid and moves through flood safe toilet setup, foundation shift tradeoff, desert camp routine. 1. Flood Safe Toilet Setup The story is a request for a low-maintenance composting toilet for a small lakeside cabin used by one or two people most of the year. The cabin has water and power, but it sits on posts and the ground underneath can flood in spring, so anything mounted below the cabin is a bad fit. Source link Discussion thread Source subreddit: OffGridCabins 2. Foundation Shift Tradeoff A reader is asking whether to put a new 12-by-16 bedroom and bathroom addition on sonotube piers or match the existing cabin, which sits on blocks. The cabin is on 40 acres in Maine, so frost heave is the big concern. Source link Discussion thread Source subreddit: OffGridLiving 3. Desert Camp Routine The story is about a man who says he has lived off-grid and rent-free in the Sonoran Desert for almost three years, using his own solar system, pumped water, a small camper, and a shipping container for storage. He says the container cost about what he used to pay in monthly bills, which is part of why the setup feels so manageable to him. Source link Discussion thread Source subreddit: OffGrid