Off grid since 2014, our family of five used to live in a 314 square foot yurt in the Boise foothills. But we're building our off grid timber frame dream home. "Fouch-o-matic" is the nickname of carpenter and cabinet maker Nick Fouch (rhymes with couch). Videos are mostly made by Mrs. Fouch-o-matic,
Esther Emery, who wrote the memoir "What Falls From the Sky." Esther's mother, Carla Emery, wrote the homesteading and self sufficiency classic, "The Encyclopedia of Country Living."