Livin' off THE GRID

[cathleeninnh]

This is the one we are building.

http://www.sunplans.com/html/houseDisplay.php3?house=Katrina_Cottage&page=misc_drawings

[Lloyd Danforth]

Still, well worth building passive solar.  I helped build one in Alstead, NH in 1981.  After the building was closed in, even in early Winter, when you came in from the outside dressed for outside and the sun came out, it got warm!

[Pat K]

This is the one we are building.

http://www.sunplans.com/html/houseDisplay.php3?house=Katrina_Cottage&page=misc_drawings

[Raineyrocks]

This is the one we are building.

http://www.sunplans.com/html/houseDisplay.php3?house=Katrina_Cottage&page=misc_drawings

Wow, that's nice!   Where are you moving? 

[cathleeninnh]

A little closer to you, Rainey. We bought a place in Barnstead. Should break ground in November.

[jaqeboy]

Wow, that's soon! How'd the land-clearing go?

[Lloyd Danforth]

Looks like a nice house.
Plant some dwarf fruit trees, blueberries, raspberries,Blackberries and grapes as soon as you can.  We're not getting any younger and a year jump on those things will mean a lot.

[Riddler]

Yes, I suppose I did. I orig. was talking about hot water. PV is too expensive to justify the benefits here in N.E. Passive hot water doesn't work here either in winter

Passive solar meaning to heat a building via the sun coming into windows on the south side...

Yeah...I've got hydronics on the brain, don't you know.

[cathleeninnh]

Looks like a nice house.
Plant some dwarf fruit trees, blueberries, raspberries,Blackberries and grapes as soon as you can.  We're not getting any younger and a year jump on those things will mean a lot.

Do you think the berries will come back on thier own? There were loads already, but too much earthmoving has me worried. I am tempted to leave everything bare at the end and see what nature does next growing season. I would like to have plants around that want to be there.

Cathleen

[Tom Sawyer]

Looks like a nice house.
Plant some dwarf fruit trees, blueberries, raspberries,Blackberries and grapes as soon as you can.  We're not getting any younger and a year jump on those things will mean a lot.

Do you think the berries will come back on thier own? There were loads already, but too much earthmoving has me worried. I am tempted to leave everything bare at the end and see what nature does next growing season. I would like to have plants around that want to be there.

Cathleen

Cultivars are better than the wild plants ie. yield, fruit size etc

[Lloyd Danforth]

And if you start out right with the berries, you get rows you can work both sides of

[Pat K]

I would like some BEER trees planted please.

[porcupine kate]

Pat you need grain and hops.  Hops are vines not trees.

[Pat K]

Pat you need grain and hops.  Hops are vines not trees.

Hey stop raining on my parade, a guy can dream cant he.

[Kat Kanning]

If they can have lunchbox trees in Oz, then they can have beer trees in the shire.  For you, PatK, we're going to start growing these: