Welcome everyone. Are you already homesteading/working on self sufficiency or just interested? I live off grid in Spain on 3 hectares, with a small house and a few animals :)

  • dmb@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I do have a well, yes. It provides quite a bit of output when I turn it all the way on, but my city limits the total quantity of water that I use. I don’t have any irrigation set up, so my focus right now is soil building, doing a lot of sheet mulching, and digging swales so that I can keep more rainwater on and into the land. It’s really nice to have a well for the house and other normal water needs, or if I want/need to do some spot irrigation, but I’m hoping to keep irrigation pretty limited and get to the point where the land is mostly self-maintaining with it’s water.

    • foxtrot@lemmy.worldOPM
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      1 year ago

      Jealous :) A well would cost more than we paid for the entire land but it’d be so worth it!