Things I can’t live without this time of year (mid June in the New Hampshire hills)
Water
It's gardening time and we grow a lot of veggies in order to supply the local soup kitchen as well as our own needs but rain is scarce in later summer and we do not want to run out of water for the garden and the house.
The pump on the well broke last year and we had 4 days with no water! That was so disturbing to live with that I now fear running out of water.
We save it when it rains in rain barrels and 5 gal buckets as it comes off the roof.
No amount of steem can buy water.
I have no plumbing on my place, and haul water in buckets from a natural mountain spring that surfaces a solid 100 feet down a 45 degree mountain side hill from my cabin. It's no picnic, especially in the winter when it hits the low teens daily up here in the Blue Ridge. Water is critical, and I feel your pain. A well would be like city living for me. I did live at a place with a well 4 or 5 years ago renting on a friends land while I shopped for my acreage and our well froze and broke in the winter regularly, no matter how much we insulated it, left it running, etc. Wells are pain in the ass, but I sure wish I had one most days.
I collect rain water too, for gardening, dishes, the dogs and things like that, just to have a source a bit closer to the cabin now and then. Thanks for sharing a thing you didn't know we would end up having in common, and your free follow has been made! See you in the steem!
Even with living in town, I collect as much rain as I can for my garden. When we get a dry spell I can go through a lot of water in a few days of watering. Right now, I can collect and hold about 550 gallons total.
I try not to use any city water for the garden, it costs too much.
Good planning! Keep it up!
Excellent way to live. Takes a lot of energy though and we are now retired and don't have that kind of energy anymore. Just keeping up with our garden and orchards is a lot of work for us.
We have solar panels that provide some of our electricity.
My husband is looking into mining but that will take a lot of electricity.
A goal is to be able to live off our land but unless the crunch comes I don't see it happening until we have to.
How do you have electricty to be on the internet?