Living Off Grid: 50 Steps to Unplug, Become Self-Sufficient, and Build the Homestead of Your Dreams by Ryan Mitchell Transylvania (Romania) She studied music composition at

She studied music composition at University of Minnesota-Duluth

the smallest snowflake finds her home

creates a work that is nothing short of enchanting

was named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus and a New York Times/New York Public Library Best Illustrated Children’s Book

This collection of Berry's essays and poems--all written outdoors on the Sabbath--"[shines] with the gentle wisdom of a craftsman who has thought deeply about the paradoxical strangeness and wonder of life" (The Christian Science Monitor)

Living Off Grid: 50 Steps to Unplug, Become Self-Sufficient, and Build the Homestead of Your Dreams by Ryan Mitchell Transylvania (Romania) She studied music composition atRyan Mitchell never thought he would go off the grid. Yet this self described desk jockey with no carpentry skills today lives on 11 acres in a house he designed and powers with solar, gets his water from a well, has a composting toilet and septic system, eats from his garden, raises baby quail, and runs his own business. His bills are a fraction of what they were when he paid rent and utilities, and he has infinitely more free time to pursue the