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Storing our home-grown power!

Steve — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:55:00 +0100

It’s been some time in the planning, but the end of May saw a major milestone in the ‘organic growth’ of our energy system at East Cambusmoon Farm with the addition of battery storage to store our excess solar power during the day to use at night! Thanks to our electrician, a day with a digger to lay 50m of new cable and a perfect install of the 3 x Tesla Powerwalls, we’ve brought our 22kW of PV across 3 separate system into single ‘hub’ where power is collected, stored and distributed across our all-electric farm.

EV update...!

Steve — Fri, 30 Jun 2017 22:14:00 +0100

We've just made it even more convenient for guests with super-efficient plug-in hybrid and pure electric vehicles to stay at East Cambusmoon with the addition of another two wall chargers!

Lambing update...

Steve — Thu, 06 Apr 2017 22:13:00 +0100

It's been a busy week so far with four new arrivals on the lambing front to date, and both mums and the two sets of twins are doing well!

A fresh look

Steve — Wed, 05 Apr 2017 17:00:00 +0100

Lambing time

Steve — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 17:30:00 +0100

Our 'mini flock' of Lleyn ewes are almost bursting (!) at the seams, so we're on lambing standby again for the Easter holidays, albeit a week or so later than in 2016. Rearing sheep isn't our 'daytime job' by any stretch of the imagination, but is an incredibly rewarding pastime which keeps the fields in good condition and adds some diversity to our smallholding, yet can be quite a stressful rollercoaster ride at this time of year!

Charge your car with the sun!

Steve — Mon, 20 Feb 2017 16:33:00 +0000

We've recently boosted our green energy production with a further 60 solar panels on the two 'hangars', so we now produce almost as much electricity as we use over a year at the farm!

Another year on....!

Steve — Fri, 27 Jun 2014 21:45:00 +0100

Ok, so when we set up this blog the intention was to do 'regular'ish' new posts on developments at East Cambusmoon....the last year blog wise was rather infrequent, and it is now just over a year since our last post! Well, there's been much happening here in the last 12 months, so much so that we've had little time to report it!

1st Birthday!

Steve — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:12:00 +0100

It's nearly 12 months since we welcomed our first guests to Curlew Cottage and The Old Dairy. It's been great fun and we've met lots of really lovely people from all over the world.

Festivals in and around Loch Lomond

Steve — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:09:00 +0100

Coming up in May we have Booked which, as you might guess, is a literature festival. Organised by West Dunbartonshire Council library service this festival is just a few years old but already has a loyal local following and has an interesting programme with a great variety of authors speaking.