Family profiled living off-the-grid in the U.P.

A lot of people now call it living off the grid. A few generations ago, residents of the U.P. would have just called it living. A couple who does it in the modern U.P. is a big part of this article.

Excerpt: This summer, my two boys and I spent a few days with a couple who live off the grid in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, 17 miles from the nearest paved road.

Victor and Claudia build canoes by hand for museum collections, using local cedar for ribs, birch-bark for the covering and a mix of spruce pitch, charcoal and bear fat to seal the seams.

For the whole story, go here.

Source: The Nature Conservancy