Energy
Solar power is part of our independence. It helps us keep important systems running and makes daily life less dependent on the grid. For us, solar isn't only about saving money — it's about comfort, continuity, and resilience.
🏡 Life at De Klomp
A home designed to provide.
Our homestead is built as a living system. Each part supports another: water, energy, plants, animals, soil, food, skills, and family.
Life on the land
Gardens, goats, and solar — the visible parts of a living system.
Photo coming: solar panels
How the systems connect
Each part supports another — energy, water, food, animals, and skills.
Photo coming: water system
Water
Water is one of the foundations of the homestead. A deep well and filtration system give us clean drinking water every day — and that matters even more during disruptions, shortages, or emergencies.
Food production
We grow food because food is security. Vegetables, fruit, herbs, and future crops all reduce dependence on outside supply chains. Every harvest has value, whether we eat it, preserve it, share it, or sell the surplus.
Animals
Goats are part of the homestead system. They give us milk, manure, and in the future possibly meat. Milk becomes yogurt, cheese, and other dairy products. Manure supports the soil. The animals aren't separate from the land — they're part of the cycle.
Skills
Skills are just as important as land. Baking bread, making cheese, preserving harvests, making sausages, smoking meat, saving seeds, and understanding animals — that's practical wealth.
Want to see how it all fits together?
Start with our story, or dive into the goats and the feeding forest we're building.