Emergency Power Question
This week's question comes from Laura in Cincinnati Ohio.
I wanted to ask you if you have a
generator for your deep freeze? I got to thinking about this
after the storm a few weeks ago. A lot of people in the tri-state
area here would have lost their harvest without one.
I have had the same concern since I started seriously freezing food
last year. A couple of months ago I started doing some research on how
much a generator would cost us and what type we should get. 
We settled on a Champion 3000 watt generator from Home
Depot.com. It sells for 349 dollars plus 40 bucks for shipping. I
tried calling the local Home Depot store to see if I could order it and
pick it up there. The woman informed me that they only carry Coleman
generators in the store and online items had to be shipped to your
house. We placed the order 10 days ago and if everything goes as
scheduled it should show up sometime next week. Once it's here we will
fully test it and post a review to let everyone know how it performed.
It is possible to make your own generator from an old lawn mower engine
and a car or truck alternator. I found this site that provides
some advanced tips on such a project. I considered giving it a try a
few years back and decided it would cost just a bit more money to buy a
new one.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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