Sorry for not giving more news last week. We are totally busy because we are thinking about our farm sustainability. We bought an organic farm because of our conviction but that is not enough! We want to be proud of our farm and to have a clear conscience. We know that we have only one planet for us and our children; we have to do all we can to keep it in good condition for future. Nearly all resources we use are limited and because of the rise of the world population we must save all our resources. So we were thinking about plan like a set up solar panels or wind turbines to get the electric autonomy or to use our organic waste to make biogas.

On the farm we have buildings with large root surface. We can use those roofs to make power. If we set up solar panels we can easily meet the energy requirement to heat our houses. If we do that we’ll need 60 000€ to pay the panels and the work and that only for our houses. We could also warm the piglet that will be a beat more expensive. We counted at least 100 000€ for them so we’ll need 160 000€. Hitch of us paid nearly 1 000€/ year of electricity and we need 10 000€ to warm piglets. With this system we save 12 000€/ year so it’ll be paid back in 13 years.

We also were thinking about recycling our organic waste in biogas. That will reduce the amount of waste. We could use the town waste to to pay back the project faster. We don’t really know the cost of this project because it depend on how many waste we use.

We are still thinking about that!
Have a nice week.I must go, today I have a lot to do