On August 16th Tingrith Farmhouse installed a new solar system, with batteries, which enabled it to go off grid. While there is a switch to connect it to the grid of for some reasons the batteries don’t charge, it is independent of the grid. The grid may be used for the olive oil press or the airconditioner, but we may not be using these very often at all! And Dave has also put a solar pump into the aquifer that the oil company found for us on our property, so we have another source of fresh drinking water….. Steps to self-sufficiency!!
Beyond that, we have put in beautiful smooth gravel roads through the bypass in the bush to the meeting house, and the track leading up past the Food Forest, which has been tidied up considerable…..
