Environment
The Good Life
31/01/23 08:56 Filed in: Garden | Environment
Some of you will remember the TV series "The Good Life' in which a professional couple gave up the rat race to turn their (admittedly large) garden into a self sufficiency smallholding. With the lockdown, and then retirement, we finally have time to turnover over a part of our garden to vegetable growing. Here I'll capture some of the lessons we learn on the way. Read More…
Solar Energy nerdiness
We were keen to reduce our carbon footprint, and have installed a solar generation system with solar panels, an inverter and 12 kWh of battery storage. This system is backed up with a lot of data, and I may revert to nerd mode and talk about this system from time to time. For now, an observation. In the first 12 months of operation, we generate over six megawatts of electricity. Read More…