\nThe barn is getting a make over, ready for chook shed\nThe silt on the ground is 6 inches thick, nice fertilizer soil here.
\nThe barn is getting a make over, ready for chook shed\nThe silt on the ground is 6 inches thick, nice fertilizer soil here.
The half yearly rates for this place is AUD 157,000. The Cost of the concrete foot paths alone would be hundreds of thousands. The 2 metre wide paths are nice. Golf buggy laundry 48 volt electric vehicles move along them. Some say the gardens reminds them of botanic gardens. It's nice during spring. God does all the hard work of growing them, I am just a gardener giving the plants a hair cut.
My job as a gardener has wonderful things for the eyes, and harder things for the muscles.
\nToday on cutting this citrus hedge, I see that after a while plants are conditioned to remain is the shape you want them to be? I wonder if you can do that with humans too? Conditional programming using Ipads?
A garden problem
This old 100 year barn, horse/cattle stables was used by the Coy Family many years ago. I thinking of making part of it a chook pen, but I have to stabilize the leaning over first.
Part of Off Grid Living, is dealing with birds that flog your fruit. Like grapes. I love grapes, and do not want birds stealing them. Alas my make shift bird netting is a poor ugly structure, but it works.
The only way to grow veggies for Off Grid Living, is under wire to keep birds and rabbits out. I need to make this one bigger.
Do you use Sigil to make your own e-books?
In our new country house, we have a 70 year old pecan nut tree, and after burning a few dry sticks near the tree, the canopy got heat stressed, triggering a few flower buds just before autumn winds set in, removing the new flowers and leaves. Tribulation sure does make fruits start.
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in your text box?
Shalom
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The steroid "pulmicort" is cheap, and offer a 100% cure for Cov19 patients, came to a texas Doctor after praying to GOD for help with patients. Not spoken about on TV is it?
One more thing Off-Grid -Living needs is a good water source. In a dry place like Australia, if you can't afford a river, and your bore is poor, storing rain water is good. Here is the cheapest idea for tanks, one large tank, 10m in diameter, a storage capacity of 160,000 litres.
The arch leads to the fruit tree room from the veggie room.
A view of the roof details and metal beams.
A different view of the garden shed, this time showing a feature arch of bricks, the shed is divided into different rooms.
A view of the grassy mulched floor, I was going to use tiles, but natural dried grass is nice to walk on, decays to soil and allows root food to eat as well. The grass comes from our lawns, so the garden shed concentrates the nutrients from the whole land plot we have.
Another view of the same garden beds, showing compost bins and the natural grass mulched floor.
Another thing I did was make two garden beds on concrete suspended off the floor. No more aching backs digging soil. The beds are 4m by 2m
Here I grow garlic , garlic chives and mint. What makes garlic difficult to grow, is getting a plant corm that I alive and healthy. Otherwise garlic seems to grow normally like other herbs.
Some plant cuttings growing in foam boxes. I am round about 80% successful with most cuttings, except Privet, Lilly Pilly and Moray plants, seems the air too dry inside my foam box, covered plastic top.
In our third year, every week we had problems with the fridge battery bank. I now know the AGM batteries are no good. The chemistry is gone, even though they were never discharged below 85% on any one day. I remember one rainy day the fridge bank went down to 65%, and this happened only once. We didn't get much sunshine for over 4 days.
On the first year everything went smoothly, both banks dropped to around to 85% of full charge, most days it was 90%, and the banks were fully 100% charged within 20 minutes of solar. So were not using the AGM batteries much, and trying to look after them.
A similar problem at the positive post also, but this only ever happened for the 24 volt DC fridge bank. The fridge draws only 1.6 amps to 2.0 amps when running, but for some reason the post terminals, while touching and tight, the controller said the terminals were bad. This second bank of storage only ran one appliance, the fridge.
My weekly problem was what I called dry socket connections at the post, they were touching, but the controlled said it wasn't touching. Rubbing with steel wool, of graphite powder helped the controller reading go from error to 100% in a few seconds of cleaning this one connection.
The negative the same. I think the bolt is stainless steel? I never had any problem with the connections here.
On the general household bank, all the power wires are connected by a brass bolt, rather than spend $300 on a brass terminal. It works OK, but look messy.
The batteries are wired in series, giving 24 volts, they are 220 Amp Hour each, giving the total storage of 220 Amp/hr. That doesn't sound much does it? The cost of each AGM battery made in china was $330 each.
Here are the controllers, for each bank. The bank allows redundancy, so having two batteries of storage allows you peace of mind should one storage fail, until you fix it.
Let's talk a little about solar power. Here are two banks of panels, 4 each of 220 watts, giving each bank a total of about 800 watts, or for 5 hours of sunshine, about 4 units of power generation. Each panel has wire connectors cut off, saves money, and soldered into parallel, making the input 30Volts and 20 Amps maximum.
The tentpeg is a special Hebrew symbol from Ancient Hebrew, and here is a useful demonstration of its ability to secure things. I use the fork of the peg to secure a hose from slipping off. Saves me time going looking for plastic clip. Works a treat :)
The geese put their poop in a cement featured garden pond, with drain, pump and filter, you recycle the water through gravel, with plant garden vegies growing in it. All natural, not quite aquaculture, but an OFF grid animal process to growing your vegies, using water and gravel and geese poo as your medium. Again 100% natural and the complex system gets better with time, the gravel medium takes on a community that helps roots in gravel grow better.
Another approach is take some geese, who eat grass lawns mostly.
Well this may look different to your industrial food, but its 100% naturally processed, fresh using all the ingredients from your own garden.
Here is a typical sample of leafy greens eaten daily used to remove cancer cells from your system and keep your immune system strong. A small hand full every day, is all you need, eaten raw, straight from your garden. Notice my chopping board is plain timber, and old 200 yr old rosewood tree to be exact.
More examples of organic food harvest.
These are all OFF Grid FOODS, grow using the permaculture system from our gardens.
The plastic lids stops the stem cuttings from dying until roots get going. Water normally. Remove lids after a while. No need to purchase seedlings.
What do you do with some problems?
Another garden example in full swing, no pesticides, no fertilizers, all natural.
In side the gardens grow madly.
The chooks and duck inside your food system, eat your weeds and supply your fertilizer, making nothing much for you to do. One paddock is open for destruction to chooks, one paddock is growing, the final paddock is harvested for food. Simply sow seeds and water.
Here is a OFF Grid concept of growing food, the concept explores not just getting off industry power, but getting off industry food practices as well. In fact the term refers to getting back to doing all things yourself, like Grassroots mag. alludes. This picture has a vermin proof chook and vegie garden enclosure, divided into 3 paddocks 6m by 6m, two sheds either end, so the picture is about 24m long/
Living off Grid is also about caring for our planet.