Re:Atlantic Ocean currents weaken, signalling big weather ch...
by madaxe_again on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:03AM
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I’m in the mountains of the north of portugal - cold winters, warm summers, and massive rural depopulation - a lot of places here are abandoned or on their way. There’s good LTE infrastructure nearby, which is how we connect - with a home-made relay mast.
No, the land was dirt cheap (less than €0.10 per m2), and we’re only working a small orchard garden - we’ll likely expand that a little in time, and add some glasshouses for winter produce. Relying heavily on automation, as farming is a faff. It’s all a learning experience - both the forestry and rewilding processes, as well as the small agricultural experiments we’re doing.
Living in the city feels really more and more repulsive to me, so hearing about people who have moved off-grid or to a rural location sounds super interesting. I have so many questions now, sorry.
Where are you located roughly geographically? (Trying to map your story into places close to me. I'm in Sweden and trying to form a picture of everything you described, and judging from the biome with ash and oak you're likely to the south of my location, latitude-wise.)
Was the farmland a big investment? Do you have prior professional experience with what you do there -- I mean, what you've done sounds successful, how did you know what has to be done? Do you work from your farm? Do you have a blog or something?