by Shionagh | Dec 29, 2017 | Erosion, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living |
We grow our own food as much as possible, but with the restricted water here lately as well as the fact that we are still getting established, we’ve found that we need to source food grown locally. Buying from local food stands, we find there is less packaging, we know the food is fresh, we pick it up on our way in or out of town with no special trips necessary.
We’ve gotten so good at keeping food in stock at home now, we only go into town once or maybe twice a week.
by Dave | Dec 12, 2017 | Construction, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Sustainable Living |
With the Compost Wall finished, we set about building our new large Compost bins. The fun part was always going to be the digging the 8 post hole needed to make the bin.
The ground here is like rock!
by Dave | Sep 4, 2017 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Solar Power, Sustainable Living |
We have one of our new adjustable Solar Racks in place now supporting some of the new panels. This will allow us to adjust our Solar Panels for maximum efficiency based on the time of year and the angle of the sun.
We also now have a set dates for adjusting the panels. These are based on the Summer/Winter Solstice times and the adjust-ability of our Solar Racks
by Dave | Aug 25, 2017 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Sustainable Living, Weather |
Water has always been an issue here.
Partly due to the steepness of our property(No flat land for tanks), and partly due to the intermittent nature of rain on the western side of the coastal ranges.
by Shionagh | Aug 10, 2017 | Growing Food, Native Birds, Native Plants, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living, Weather |
By our estimations, the house here at Arborlon was built about 20 years ago.We don’t know who built it, but as we’ve lived here now for two years, we’ve noticed how well they designed the aspects of the house to achieve natural heating and cooling. We have no need for heating or air-conditioning!
by Dave | Jul 31, 2017 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Solar Power |
Lately the stored power in our Solar Batteries has not been performing well.
The power stored for overnight use had not been good since we got here, but lately had become an issue as we would come very close to running out of power overnight.
by Dave | Jul 30, 2017 | Construction, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Solar Power, Sustainable Living |
We built the Solar Box, for the batteries and components of our new Solar System, soon after we got here almost 2 years ago.
The initial build was always temporary as we knew we would be relocating and /or rewiring this system once we got settled.
by Dave | Jul 28, 2017 | Construction, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living |
In lots of photos you may have seen the ‘blue snake’ across the lawn on the plot level. That was the Plot hose connected to the Plot irrigation…
Well we finally got it ‘buried’ and completed.
by Shionagh | May 5, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Recipes, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living |
What do you do when nature throws you too much spinach, you make Spanikopita!
Growing your own food is one thing, but eating the food you grow is a whole other thing. You have to be prepared with recipes and ideas of how to use the abundance of food that nature gives you, which prompted me to start posting some recipes to help us all use our home grown veg. So,
by Dave | Mar 30, 2017 | Bush Restoration, Erosion, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Weather |
Heavy rain continued to fall through Thursday morning and we could hear and see water pouring down the mountain in lots of places.
We knew there would be more ‘damage’ to the road, and possibly to areas of our property too… so ventured out again when the rain eased.
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