posted 5 years ago
Hello all, I have been living off grid in a yurt with my wife for the last 7 years, and we just welcomed our first daughter to our little adventure last fall. We have been gardening and tending to the trees on an 80 acre property my family owns- but mostly as a hobby. The uncertainty of this last year has left me feeling motivated to start working on getting a resilient food system in place, and really doubling down on a simpler, healthier, more sustainable lifestyle. I am interested in trying to raise some animals, and ultimately I would like to get to a point where I could produce meat without buying feed. I am thinking of starting with rabbits next year.
I am excited to meet people who have some real-world experience, and I hope that by sharing some of the projects I have worked on, I might be of some help to others. I am supplying our household electrical usage off solar and hydro, although I am still buying in half a dozen or so 20lb propane cylinders a year to provide hot water in the winter, and to run a little propane cooktop. I have been working on taming about a quarter of an acre of the jungle that passes for forest around here, with the hope of someday turning it into a productive vegetable garden. I dug a pond, (that leaks), and built a ram pump (that broke), but I did manage to get enough water to get me through this season. I have played around a bit with making charcoal, both to use as biochar, and to run a generator. I have been tinkering on a little pickup that I am planning to convert to electric, but between the pandemic and the garden I have fallen a bit behind schedule on that. I tend to get really excited about new projects, so, I maybe dont get top marks on finishing everything I start in a timely manner. Eventually though, I come back around to those things that have fallen by the wayside. It only took me like a year to finally put those gutters up... :)
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