Off-Grid HEATING 🔥: Woodstoves and Fireless Alternatives

You had a burning question: what are some different ways to heat the off-grid home? Find out all about wood stoves, earth-sheltered homes, passive solar heating, compost heating, and more! Heating the off-grid home is a lot more detailed and complicated than we can get into today, but hopefully we light a spark in you to research further. Have you tried any of the methods we mentioned today? What off-grid heating technique works for you? Comment down below!


Resources:

Finding Free Firewood: https://insteading.com/blog/free-fire...
Wood-stoves: How to Make and Use Them: https://www.amazon.com/Wood-Stoves-Ho...
Masonry Heaters: https://insteading.com/blog/masonry-h...
Rocket Mass Heaters: https://insteading.com/blog/rocket-ma...
Geothermal Heating and Cooling: https://www.epa.gov/rhc/geothermal-he...
Earth-Sheltered Homes: https://insteading.com/blog/earth-she...
Passive Solar Heating: https://www.heatwhiz.com/what-is-pass...
The Passive Solar Energy Book: https://archive.org/details/passiveso...
DIY in-Ground Greenhouse: https://insteading.com/blog/diy-in-gr...


Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:55 Heating the Off-Grid Home
2:21 Woodstove
2:55 Masonry Stove
3:35 Rocket Mass Heater
4:11 Geothermal Heating
5:23 Earth-Sheltered Homes
6:06 Passive Solar
6:54 Greenhouses
7:49 Floating Row Covers and Cold Frames
8:20 Compost
8:37 Southern Orientation and Stone Walls
9:03 Buried Greenhouses
9:24 Cold Tolerant Vegetables
9:57 Conclusion