Living off the grid - homesteading and self-sufficiency

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For anyone interested or already living off the grid, anywhere in the world.

Homesteading
Solar systems
Water management
Animal husbandry

And how to live and thrive off the grid

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foxtrot

hey, welcome! let's introduce ourselves (self.off_grid)

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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 :)

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[–] dmb 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What do you do for water? Is it mostly rainwater collection? I spent a couple of years looking at land and the first requirement was always water availability

[–] foxtrot 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the only part of Europe we could afford was dry af so we only have rainwater, and in the past couple of years it's hardly rained at all. We do collect from every single roof we have, we can store just over 11.000 litres (~3000 gallons) but if it doesn't rain there's nothing to store. after 5 years we're just about ready to dig a well or move but we can't afford either :) we're doing okay though, we have water in the house and all our animals have enough to drink - the one thing we're missing is irrigation for a veggie garden. so mostly we grow vegetables in winter.