I will be updating this page with more information on this exciting project, dirty water comes in, clean water comes out! This and a compost toilet, and bio-degradable washing materials, and you don’t need central sewage! Thousands saved, and so much less damage to the environment!
They have a great website with videos here.

My little garden is shaping up, planted a boy and girl Sea Buckthorn, with one pathetic yellow berry. We will see how they take.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippophae_rhamnoides

Found some bastard Peonies growing by the road on the remains of a demolished garden. Tore the roots out and planted them as well, they do say Peonies sulk for 3 years after you tear them out.

Some great ideas to replace decorative japanese garden plants with edible.

http://balconyofdreams.blogspot.com/

Replace Bamboo with Asparagus

Replace clipped pine with clipped rosemary

Naturally, I am atracted to permaculture.
Sepp Holzer and Fukuoka and

http://www.richsoil.com/sepp-holzer/sepp-holzer-permaculture.jsp

We have very little soil on our mountain, but we do have 7000 square meters of it.

One slope has accumulated quite a lot of oak leaves over the years, that have turned into mulched/ composted leaves.

I have made two raised beds, one out of wood and one by laying earth over a long dead and rotten birch.

Potatoes and
jerusalem artichokes / Helianthus tuberosus

and some beets, pumpkins and wildflowers to fix nitrogen.
are the start of our garden, planted in July so not hoping for any crop this year.

Need to find more local swedish tubers, but also thinking about the North American Ground Nut /
Apios Americana dutch seller
One can only learn anything by doing it, so this is simply starting now as opposed to waiting for the perfect conditions in the future that does not exist.

Anna got the potatoes for free, and the Jerusalem artichokes cost 12 crowns.
I bought a mix of heritage seeds on ebay for 17 dollars, and will try to get as many local permaculture compatible plants as possible.

Dont know if I should bring earth to the mountain for raised platform beds, as there is literally no earth, just rock covered with a thin layer of grass and roots.

Now I will go harvest some willow and plant it around our outhouse, if it takes, next year maybe I will convert it into a treebog.

http://www.ee7drs.org.uk/bog/treebog.html

http://permaculture.wikia.com/wiki/Tree_bog

One couple’s journey to independence with a green house and motel.

Papercrete, reuse and recycle, and a lot of great ideas.

http://blog.holyscraphotsprings.com/

Found via Ryan Is Hungry

http://ryanishungry.com/2007/04/26/green-acre-the-40-yr-old-mobile-gets-a-green-re-do/

something like this maybe but out of metal or regular wood.

<img src=”http://carryfreedom.com/images/P_Bamboo_FL_Line.gif”>

<a href=”http://carryfreedom.com/bamboo.html”>http://carryfreedom.com/bamboo.html</a>

<a href=”http://www.motherearthnews.com/Do-It-Yourself/1981-07-01/Dime-on-the-Dollar-Bicycle-Trailer.aspx”>mother earth bike plans</a>

Maybe with 2 laptops to power and 4 LED lights for the house we will be ok, store food in the basement cellar (will have to cut some rock, it is all rock in Sweden, all the way down)and do laundry in a hand-crank machine.

http://www.velacreations.com/

I have a friend, farmer Paul, that put up a wind turbine on a 30 meter pole, and no wind…. This was in NY. So i am sceptical of alternative energy, no hippie that I am. It’s just that it does seem the only way for independence.

Russian Evgeny Gvozdev sails around world 2 times in home-made boats, that cost him less than $200 – and endless hours- to build.

The third time, he was found off the coast of italy two weeks after pieces of his third boat showed up.
He was 75. And he decided not to call for help. Maybe he wanted to die at sea.
But the most inspiring thing is that he is one of the very few people left that believe in 100-percent complete responcibility for our destiny.
How many people say, I would sail the world if only I had money.
This guy made his boat by hanging it off the side of his apartment’s balcony.
Everything is possible.

And what is the worst that can happen- you’re gonna die.
But then at least you lived.

Gvozdev was a boat mechanic. I can guarantee you that he had no money, just desire.

http://www.mitchellyachts.co.uk/photos/said.html

http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s637590.htm

http://parusa.narod.ru/bib/papers/gvozdev/index.htm

I am thus looking into atmospheric water generators. $1300 and up

white buffalo nation
aquamaker
EcoloBlue
MirageWaterMaker

side note to self
An interesting hydrogen tech as well

http://www.oxy-hydrogen.com/