Paul Fookes

Welcome to Permies Tana.
We hope you are successful in love and are looking forward to seeing photod of  your homesteading journet

I've got my 6 species: apples, potatoes, sunchokes, parsnips, onions, pears. I'm not sure how to show the food obviously not spoiled in any way. How would you show this in a picture, Paul?

- Show the setting up of the storage spaces being set up
- Take a wide photos showing the product on the scales, then stored and a close up of some of the product showing its quality.
My thoughts would be to play to the strengths of the product.
I know that some onions can last 12 months or more hung in a cool, dark, and airy space.  IE, a larder room, where the walls allow for free air movement but exclude vermin and insects.
Research areas could include how to store apples.  Potatoes, chokes and parsnips do well in a root cellar.  There is a 'how to' here on Permies using a large garbage bin with a lid burried in the garage shed.

Pears can be stored on the tree until ready to pick and from my experience last 2 - 3 weeks once picked.  They do not ripen on the tree but go to juice suitable, fermented or otherwise.

Once it is stored and you have completed the BB you will have the opportunity to bottle (can), pickle, or dry the pears and apples.

As discussed, look at what the others have done and select the best bits.
Speak Monday

We have a split system and use our grey water around the house to keep the clay subsoil moist.  If it dries out, we get cracks in the walls.  It keeps the grass green for bush fire mitigation.

wood efficient space heater

Great first meeting.  Looked at different options for submitting BBs and proper labeling of photos to make identification easier.
Parts of a BB submission:
- Intro to BB and discussion points.
- Notes on requirements
- Written proofs
- Photo or video proofs
- Final notes (if required)

PER - Permaculture Experience Rebekah to manage BBs that are too specific to complete outside of the Lab
Prior to submission, Rebekah will need to discuss on forum https://permies.com/t/120/210060/skills-inherit-property/BB-clarification-thread#2435746
Rebekah is a great person to work with.  Loving the experience.

Hi Rebekah,
Remember that one of the rules is that it has to be your work:

and we process them and store them next to our house,

I will look at the requirements so we can discuss on Wednesday (MT)

Will discuss RMH options.  Look at what you have.  I had an acquaintance who always said "you have enough"

This Page is for Rebekah and Paul to grow PEP 2 projects and make notes.

When we lived in Papua New Guinea, the Raskols would steal solar panels and sell them to locals.  We often saw solar panels as tables and walls.  It was easy to get regulators and lights from Australia so there was home lighting.

Panels can be fixed if the wires break. Just a small drill, silver wire and solder to bypass the break.  YouTube has some good information on this.

I did some degradation tables on our solar panels and have similar values to Mark.  Our rate is 0.1% per annum. so, 100%, 99.9%, 99.8%, 99.7  which means in 10 years, our cells will be 98.9% efficient.  Efficiency relies on the type of silicon matrix, construction of the joining material from cell to cell and cleanliness of the glass.  The new wiring is laser cut vertical ribbons so there is less shadow over the photovoltaic silica, unlike the older panels that had wire soldered on top of the silica.  Panels should not wear out in one person's life if purchased new.  The trick is to keep them clean and protect the external wiring from the sun and base your panel capacity on a fine mid-winter's day.  Panels under 25 deg C or over 25 deg C will not perform as well........

As a thought and back to Pearl's suggestion, there is no reason that a greenhouse or room wall cannot be solar panels generating power.  Just make sure that they are tilted the right direction and inclination.  They are also easier to clean than roof mounted ones.  Ours are on dual axis trackers so we can grow sun-sensitive herbs under them because there is light but no direct heat from the sun.
Cheers

Hi Michelle,
Welcome to Permies and for reaching out.  Permies.com is an inspired family trying to make the world a better place to live one relatinship and one backyard at a time.
Here is a page that you may like as it is a bit about this site: https://permies.com/t/209380/

Best wishes for achieving your dreams

We have been off grid since buying the plot in 1974.  Our 20,000 gal concrete tanks installed in 1986 have virtually no sediment on the bottom.  Each of our first pass diverters uses about 20 litres (4 gal) X 8 diverters.  Each down pipe has two filters before the water gets to the diverter.  You can make your own with a 10 mm grid wire and a fine kitchen seive set into a tapered pipe.  Our down pipes are 90 mm, with 1400 mm diverter collectors.
I used both these products :  
This is DIY version which is well put together in my opinion: