The Forgotten Self-Reliance of Early Americans — Still Alive in One Backyard

There was a time when an American family did not need a power company, a grocery chain, or a bank to make it through the winter.

They grew what they ate. They preserved it the way their grandparents did — without electricity. They knew which plants healed. They collected their own water and answered to no one.

Most of that knowledge is gone now. But not all of it.

A couple named Ron and Johanna have lived completely off the grid for forty years — no power bill, growing everything they need on a small backyard plot. Now in their sixties, they wrote down everything they learned before it disappears with their generation.

How to preserve a full harvest with no refrigerator. The seven plants that replace a medicine cabinet. How to collect your own water. The same skills early Americans relied on every single day.

There is a short presentation where they show how they did it. If you have ever wondered what the old generation knew that we have forgotten — it is worth your time.