We left our city lives behind and moved to the top of a mountain in Spain, to live off-grid. We’ve spent two years alone, renovating an old stone house and restoring the abandoned land.

Since living here, we have relied solely on a mountain spring for all of our water needs. This summer, the spring got dangerously close to stopping completely. With over 150 trees, animals, vegetables and our (Robbie’s) long baths, we need to prepare for the worst.

So with all our great permaculture wisdom (from living in the middle of a city our whole lives 🤦🏻‍♀️) we have decided to try and make a pond!

The goal of the pond is to create a large store of water, approximately 50,000l, to fall back on should the spring run dry, and build a little more resilience into our homestead. After months of dry weather, we are coming into winter, where an entire years worth of rain can fall in 24 hours! We are racing against time to finish the construction of the pond, so we can seize the opportunity to fill the pond right to the top!

This is part 1 of a 3 part series on making this pond.

Join us as we continue to build our off-grid homestead, and become self-sufficient from the land.

0:00 Intro
00:32 Will our spring run dry next year?
00:47 Picking up materials
01:03 Pumping water 100m to the top of the mountain
03:44 Searching our land for a pond location
04:04 Digger - Day 1
06:33 Birthday cake, giant mantis, naughty sheep
08:14 Digger - Day 2
08:59 Emilia discusses “pond construction strategy”
11:01 90km/h winds cause damage
14:23 This project is scaring us
16:16 Wild boar destroy pond?

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