Category: Zone 1 Projects
Electrical Branch Circuit Design Guide
Overcurrent Protection Device, Wiring, and End-Use Equipment Design and Selection for AC and DC Circuits Electrical branch circuits? What does that have to do with the design and development of sustainable human habitats?!? In our Introduction to Appropriate Energy, we present a process for designing efficient (and thus cheaper and more ecologically-sound) energy systems for…
Moving Electricity
Appropriate electrical energy systems for moving water, people, animals, materials, refrigerant, and air around a homestead.
Moving Things
Appropriate energy systems for moving water, people, animals, materials, refrigerant, and air around a homestead.
Living with Fire – Part 3: Home Construction And Retrofitting For Fire Survivability
Living with Fire – Part 3: Home Construction and Retrofitting for Survivability. How to design or a retrofit a home for survival in a wildfire ecology.
Living with Fire – Part 2 Regenerative Firescaping – Protecting Your Home With Good Design
Regenerative Firescaping principles and methods for creating a fire-safe oasis around your home.
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 4: Thermophilic Composting
Simple DIY thermophilic composting instructions for homestead scale composters. 18 Day Berklee Hot Compost method for quick compost.
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 3: Compost Tea
Welcome to Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads! This post series covers the many ways you can build fertility, create soil, cycle nutrients and take responsibility for “waste” streams on your property. These systems all integrate with one another to increase resilience, improve nutrition (for soil and humans) and save dollars. The posts are written from our…
Nutrient Cycling For Homesteads – Part 1: Vermicompost
Vermicomposting methods for the homestead and farm. Build soil fertility, process waste streams on site, and create a resilient ecosystem at home!
DIY Air Prune Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Healthy-Rooted Trees In A Tiny Footprint
DIY Air Pruning Beds – Grow Hundreds Of Trees With Well-Formed Root Structures In A Tiny Footprint What Is Air Pruning? Air pruning is a technique for developing healthy, fibrous, non-circling and non-girdling root structures in trees and and plants raised in a nursery setting that uses air to prune and shape root systems. Trees…
Creating Places: Four Corner Tree Hammock
When I was a kid summer was all about building forts. Tree forts, earth forts, pillow forts, bark houses – you name it, I built it. I’ve always loved creating spaces that I loved to be in, and interestingly enough, other people loved those spaces too. Much like the forts of childhood, these spaces are…
DIY: Build Your Own Automated Misting Bed
So you’ve finally gotten that piece of land to start your homestead, you’ve done your site plan and installed your mainframe earthworks. Now its time to plant! But wait, all of those plants cost money! And not just pocket change, but some serious dough! If each fruit tree you plant also needs a comfrey, two…
Strawbnado
Strawberries + Tornado = Strawbnado! Want to maximize how much you can grow in a small space? If so, you’ve got to consider going vertical. Here’s a simple description and materials list for a very productive and fun space-maximizing element in your home garden.
