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Dawncloack posted:The garden This seems sensible. If you're in a climate where herbs can survive the winter, I'd be thinking about getting your zone 1 herb garden up as one of the first things. You'd also want to be finding out what the soil is like. Again, depending on where you are, there's a high chance that anywhere you can afford land will have quite marginal soil. (That's definitely the case in the Pacific Northwest -- most of our land is a thing veneer of old forest floor over hard volcanic bedrock.) Even if you manage to somehow get land somewhere really fertile, you'll need to do a lot of soil building to start, ie bring in a whole lot of compost, and/or plant a lot of soil-building cover crops, and either till or lasagne. Three sisters is, in my experience, quite a bit more fiddly than it's made out to be. You really have to get the timing (and spacing) right for all three of the plants, which itself requires fairly intimate knowledge of both the strains you're growing and your local growing conditions. (At least I'd guess this -- as I've said, I haven't had much luck!) Also don't forget deer fencing if you're anywhere that has them.
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Runoff from the roof is what usually goes into rain barrels. It's rainwater, I'm pretty sure it's fine for plants. And are they honestly banned by your HOA? In a lot of places they're incentivized. Something else you could think of for water is a greywater pond/swamp. That does involve plumbing, though, and the HOA would probably have a fit if they figured out what it was. But you can probably just disguise it as a pond.
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Huh. I can see why poo poo is so expensive in Vermont. Stowe is just a two hour drive from Montreal, and there's an Amtrak line 40 minutes away. Oh and it's basically a ski town, surrounded by state parks? Like, have you considered running a B&B on the side once you've gotten set up? Super excited for you, though. Also hyped to see photos of the site. What's your plan for stewardship of those wetlands?
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You can buy bee cocoons. You leave them next to a bee house, and they keep coming back.
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Yeah really, that's very elegant. I've something similar-ish (bench not wall), but the janky hippie version: https://permies.com/wiki/57365/Rocket-Mass-Heater-Builder-Guide  
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'm putting some thought into a greenhouse dome large enough to build a house within. I want a comfortable patch of grass my dog can poo poo on in relative warmth in a high alpine valley. Also a tree or two I'll have to bitch about pruning a few times a year after a decade of untended growth. Rig up something to open windows at the top and have a bunch hinged so they can open in arms' reach. Slap a little 600 sq ft cabin inside and enjoy low heating costs. I'm thinking a 60ft diameter would get me what I'm looking for, and possibly make the county scratch their heads over approving anything I bring them. Have other people done this before? I'd be worried about humidity/moisture, but maybe you can manage that with the windows?
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:I'll be picking an engineers mind at some point, because the county is probably going to want stamped plans for it. I'll generally take their advice on this. peanut posted:Pre-cut lumber frames, subfloor, and subroof are assembled in one day
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