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Effort post: This is something I have been giving a lot of thought to in the past few years. Strong community helps so much. Both with physical safety, but also labor, food, all your basic needs. Amish people all coming together to build a barn in a day, etc. Neighbor farm with milk cows has excess manure that you can take to grow vegetables. One person's crop failure can be supported by their neighbors so they do not starve. This year (or was it last year) my partner and I purchased 90 acres in a subtropical region where they are a citizen. Long term plans(5-10 years): We plan for solar + nickel iron batteries (non-hazardous). The batteries are heavy, and take up space (in a house it doesn't matter as much vs as in a car), so you just build a shed to store them. They can last 60+ years if well maintained, and uses an electrolyte of potassium. You can dump old batteries on your farm and its literally fertilizer. A well, rain water catchment tanks, and a series of swales and small ponds for drinking water and irrigation. Sand charcoal gravel water filter for drinking?(not sure about that) Plan to stock the ponds with tilapia. Composting toilets, and a septic tank for sewage. Reed beds using biodegradable soap with a grease trap, for kitchen and laundry waste water. Set aside 10+ acres to grow sunflowers for the oil. Use the oil to make biodiesel for a small 4x4 pickup truck to be your transportation. Maybe an electric ATV for shorter travel distances. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rtj6ktUVjac HAM radio, cell phones, satellite internet for communication. Permaculture, food forest, agroforestry for our fruit and vegetable gardens. Integrating livestock to eat and clear weeds, along with their manure to fertilize. Fish that are in the ponds. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEBelPUM8tA e: I forgot, my in-laws have already hung up 20 bee hives in the trees. Can't wait to move there permanently! Fozzy The Bear has issued a correction as of 23:35 on Aug 9, 2022 |
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Weka posted:What sort of magical dairy farm has excess manure? You typically apply nitrogen. No access to utilities, have to deal with human waste somehow, composting is best. The world currently produces enough food to feed 10+ billion people. The problem is transportation, and getting people to eat "non-perfect" food. TONS of food is thrown out in the field every year because the cucumber wasn't perfectly straight, the apple had small bug damage, the cauliflower got too much direct sunlight and turned yellow instead of staying white, etc. Some farms only sell to one or two wholesalers. That wholesaler has too much lettuce this week? Farm just dumps the rest instead of creating large price fluctuations. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8TDfjbpSBE
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