LobsterPond
06-26-2008, 01:02 PM
Hi Everyone!
We're on our second survival house and this time we bought the farm. We wanted to expand our chickens and add rabbits, a few hogs (maybe pot belly piggies?), for sure meat / dairy goats (and angoras!) and expand our crayfish tanks, so our lake house is going up for sale. The thing is - we thought we'd be doing our "survival" farming there and I had everything set up - hidden storage, composter toilets (the Centrex 300 ac/dc for 5-8 people), gardens, fields planted with clover & alfalfa (to feed chickens and goats). . which weren't our fields but no one else is using the land. . go figure.
We are trying to go nearly all Zero Energy on our farm, same as with the other place. And I want to use the thermo-shield paint additive on all my buildings here since I found it worked so well on the other house. I'm not sure I'll get as much solar exposure on the farm as I did at the lake house - particularly since the frozen lake bounced soooo much sun into the house. But we are going to do our best to duplicate the green living we had going on there with wood heat and orchards. I'll also be planting low growing No Mow Grass on our farm like we did on the lake house but there's a lot more lawn here than there!
If anyone knows of someone wanting a survival place on a lake south of the Twin Cities - give me a holler! You can see what our farm is doing on: MyBackAchers.com Or if anyone has some livestock in need of good home in southern MN- Again - Give Me A Holler.
From the looks of things . . 2008-2009 is going to be a long cold winter - the first of many we will be seeing if Global Warming heads the way some people say it will. Sorry - Everyone -- > Enjoy your summer first!
Warm Regards,
LobsterPond
We're on our second survival house and this time we bought the farm. We wanted to expand our chickens and add rabbits, a few hogs (maybe pot belly piggies?), for sure meat / dairy goats (and angoras!) and expand our crayfish tanks, so our lake house is going up for sale. The thing is - we thought we'd be doing our "survival" farming there and I had everything set up - hidden storage, composter toilets (the Centrex 300 ac/dc for 5-8 people), gardens, fields planted with clover & alfalfa (to feed chickens and goats). . which weren't our fields but no one else is using the land. . go figure.
We are trying to go nearly all Zero Energy on our farm, same as with the other place. And I want to use the thermo-shield paint additive on all my buildings here since I found it worked so well on the other house. I'm not sure I'll get as much solar exposure on the farm as I did at the lake house - particularly since the frozen lake bounced soooo much sun into the house. But we are going to do our best to duplicate the green living we had going on there with wood heat and orchards. I'll also be planting low growing No Mow Grass on our farm like we did on the lake house but there's a lot more lawn here than there!
If anyone knows of someone wanting a survival place on a lake south of the Twin Cities - give me a holler! You can see what our farm is doing on: MyBackAchers.com Or if anyone has some livestock in need of good home in southern MN- Again - Give Me A Holler.
From the looks of things . . 2008-2009 is going to be a long cold winter - the first of many we will be seeing if Global Warming heads the way some people say it will. Sorry - Everyone -- > Enjoy your summer first!
Warm Regards,
LobsterPond