Forum: Designing, building, making and powering your life

Do all cordless phones need power? Our phone socket on a tree about 100m from our house.We would like the phone in the house. Cant find that...

Im looking to be pointed in the direction of making a methane gas converter. Using mainly humanure . please send me links to good systems

Couldn't find much on the web about using Eucalypt in Hugelkuture.:think: With Australia filled with so much of it, I hope someone out there has some...

I posted this over for ask the experts, but I wanted to get all the input I can get. I have already built one swale and it has worked to hold up to...

Hi! So I'm looking for some advice on earthworks, swales and irrigation for our community supported agriculture (CSA) project here in the UK...

This may help someone. It certainly helped us a great deal. Thanks to my lovely brother in law we have a solar hot water sytstem which cost us all of...

Brad Lancaster (author of "Rainwater Harvesting for Drylands and Beyond") is the focus of a new video, which is in competition for prize money which...

It is my understanding that a Trompe is one of the most useful, yet under rated energy device available too those of financial hardship. As such I...

Try as i might, i just don't understand how these work http://lowimpact.org/factsheet_ground_source_heat_pumps.html

Hello all, We're trying to set up our property in the Adelaide Hills for an agrarian life where we can meet as many of our needs directly as...

I was wondering if anyone had some information on using a greenhouse as a food dehydrator. Also, is it viable to use a trombe wall to heat the...

When building natural capital (including beef or wool), increased potosynthesis is the goal of any land manager. Available moisture is, of course, a...

There is no longer any excuse to remain ignorant of the vast peer-to-peer landscape that is slowly but surely replacing the obsolete, monopolistic,...

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has any advice on getting a permit for a dwelling on farming zoned land that's around 3.5ha in Victoria (we're...

Hello All, I am wishing to grow some grass around the house on our 5 acre bush block for the kids & myself to roll around on. We would...

Hi everyone! Thanks for all you do in this world! I just wanted to let you know about this tropical permaculture film we are working on called...

Anyone know if building a Root Cellar in warmer climes will be ok? Got the Root Cellaring book, but its all about Temperate climates. Our winter...

My son's very own version of the Micro Climate Chaser Can also be used as a recliner. Or even a wheelbarrow! ;)

Thought some of you here would be interested in traditional kayak building techniques. Here are two links of people building them:...