Bishop Whitewind<p>This is what I've learned this year. Suit it to taste/#climate.<br>Fava beans, lentils and/or Scarlet runners depending on the temperatures. <br>Swiss chard, figs and blackberries, woodland or alpine strawberries depending on climate. <br>Mulberry trees, hazelnuts, and chives. There is also something called tree kale or purple tree collard.<br>Amaranth grows where it's very hot. Use the beans and <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/composting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>composting</span></a> to nurture the soil.<br>3-4 Kilowatt hour incoming <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>solar</span></a> charge, and about 9 to 10 KW hours of lithium phosphorus batteries.<br>Run nothing but 48 volt systems or you're wasting your time.<br>This radiant installation pictured below has given me a 20° variance between external and internal temperatures. <br>I use the lights from some cloning chambers I built into the house to stabilize the temperatures through the winter. Vent heat from LED light fixtures into the house. If you need more heat, use a wood burning stove.<br>It gets a little chilly but it can drop below 20° f and it stays habitable inside.<br>This is one layer of the insulation, my math called for two. Halfway done I will still make it through this winter.<br>I use the water storage to further stabilize the temperature. <br>I made it 80% of the year with just this pitiful water catchment system I installed in a hurry. <br>It is two small tarps going into a shady 30 gallon water bucket.<br>The upgrade will be an 8x8 tarp headed into a 50 gallon rain barrel.<br>The gardens take more water than humans. For months sometimes it's simply will refuse to rain.<br>When it does rain, the power takes a hit thus of the batteries.<br>Expect to put the farm ahead of everything else. <br>Cut down invasive trees. Use them for firewood and to hide you from the outside. <br>Do not bulldoze Fern Gully. Any clearing you create will then have to be managed.<br>A composting toilet that separates the liquid is essential. <br>Be mindful of bugs at all times in all places or eventually they will remind you forcefully that they exist.<br>An <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/ecosystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ecosystem</span></a> of dragonflies, lizards, and bats has sprung up to deal with endless swarms of insects. <br>Yellow jackets live nearby and outnumber the bees 50 to one. The yellow jackets and wasp do most of the pollinating as unfortunate as that is. <br>In this new world you have forbidden bees or nothing. <br>Birds are a double-edged sword, but there is nothing worse than an unchecked bug swarm being your existence for the rest of your life.<br>Squirrels, chipmunks, woodchucks, All manner of groundhog, hedgehogs, larger animals such as deer join the crows. <br>Work something out with the birds, work something out with a yellow jackets, work something out with the animals and the trees.<br>You are building an ecosystem, a small world.<br>The condensation from the leaves creates a rain every morning. <br>I'm not sure what tipping point stops this, but I have no plans to find out. <br>This kind of depends on going <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/vegan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vegan</span></a>, I'm not going to lie. Supplement it with textured vegetable protein, nutritional yeast, and multivitamins. <br>A simple thing is to glob peanut butter into a bowl of course cut oats, then sprinkle with cinnamon.<br>You should plan on some sort of internet connection, recreation, and a shower or two at least every week, or you will quickly go mad.<br>Time your heavy labor for shower days. That way you won't be stuck gross. <br>Keep peroxide, witch hazel, creams, and health and beauty aides of course on hand. <br>Wash your clothes in a bustub and rinse them out in the storms. <br>Learn to build fences and barriers both living and material. Grow blackberry up a deer fence made of t-post, these posts can be driven to anchor a row of cinder blocks to the ground. This will also deter vehicles. A layer of barbed wire deters humans. <br>Create walls of hazel and figs. Learn to work the <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/hedge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hedge</span></a>.<br><a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/ClimateDiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateDiary</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/Permaculture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Permaculture</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/Homestead" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Homestead</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/Anarchy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchy</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/Solar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Solar</span></a> <a href="https://regenerate.social/tags/SolarPunk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolarPunk</span></a></p>