Megan De la Montagne

Thanks everyone for your suggestions and input!
I suppose I left out a few details;
We have lived here for a bit over a year and have relied on filling up 5 gallon water jugs at a community centre about 10 minutes up the road, and have very low water consumption so this has been sustaining us fine thus far.
Having the well dug here will give us that extra luxury of not driving up the road to fill jugs, and lugging water by hand from our 2 brooks to the gardens and fruit trees.  We are already set up on solar (have 3 Bluetti AC200P power stations, plus a solar fridge and internet motem that run on a separate 400W solar set up and LifePo4 batteries. We do not intend to connect to the grid.
Gas prices are sky rocketing by the day and we do not have a gas generator, nor intend to purchase one either at this point in time.
I know 60W is not a strong panel but thought it may be adequate to power a transfer pump to a water tote by the garden while the battery is charged. Our Bluetti can run AC, but also has a DC car plug port and I have seen some pumps like this one ( https://www.thecabindepot.ca/collections/pumps/products/camplux-seaflo-3gpm-12v-water-pump-kit ) that are able to run via that port or alligator clamps... If anyone has experience with this one please let me know!

Hello!
I have been skimming the internet and am overwhelmed with all of the different types of pumps there are! Hoping someone can enlighten me with their knowledge and experience <3.

I am going to have a shallow well dug (told in this area they are typically 12-16 feet deep), and would like to install both an electric 12v DC pump, with hand-operated back-up. I have a 60W solar panel with battery clamps and a deep-cycle battery I can use. I am going to be pumping my water for irrigation for our gardens that are roughly 60-80 feet from where the well will be (ideally with a hose and nozzle although may just fill barrels and hand water depending on the flow rate). I will also be filling up 19L jugs for use in our yurt.
We are in Nova Scotia: zone 6B, and the winters aren't too crazy cold (-15C at the worst, typically -2C to 5C) with no very deep or long lasting snowfalls.

I am stuck between a submersible pump vs. 12V RV pump, and for the hand pump am looking for something cheap and practical that I can use in the winter without it becoming damaged. I have been suggested a guzzler pump, and the antique style hand pumps.... was intrigued by the Simple and Bison pump but they are out of my budget! The more simple the set up the better for our busy life off grid with our toddler! haha

ANY recommendations would be greatly appreciated; I love to hear others experiences, both positive and negative.

Thanks in advance!!! :)

Hi there!
This is my first post so I hope I do it right!
Calling out to other yurt dwellers: I have a 20' traditional Mongolia ger (yurt) coming in a couple of weeks and am going to make a strawbale and plywood platform. I'm looking for input from others who have made a strawbale platform on tips, tricks, what went right and what you wish you would have done if you did it over... I ordered 12 3/4 inch pine plywood boards (my partner thinks we will need 1 more but on a yurt forum someone else mentioned it took 11.5...) , and have 125 strawbales waiting under tarp. I will be placing the bales inside of a winter pool cover, then the plywood on top. Still open to suggestions for the outer ring of the platform, how to connect the boards securely and really any other input you may have! :)
Also, what are your ingenious space saving tips and tricks? I'll be living in it full time with my partner and our toddler so being tight and organized as possible is a definitely a priority!

P.s. I'm on the south shore of Nova Scotia and would love to connect with others around here who live in yurts!