The following ideas are parts of an integral approach to a beautiful, easy to keep, acreage plan that enables food, water, and power from organic sources. This is the basis for a primary course in Landcrafting and Life force living designed for land owners, coaches, and key members of the youth movement. It promotes a creative and adaptive way of thinking ...like Bill Mollisons ...use everything for something mindset.
BASIC SURVIVAL THINKING
∑ Use old Cardboard for weed-block
∑ Dried green-waste trimmings for kindling
∑ Have multiple water catchment systems
∑ Bottles can be support in the middle of old stone walls
∑ Create compost bin for soil creation ... turning it is the secret
∑ Use plastic food cartons and egg crates for seedlings
∑ Use clothesline versus dryer
∑ Bike with backpack for groceries
∑ Use stone mix on driveway don’t pave with asphalt or concrete
∑ Save fireplace ashes for soil amendment
∑ Have a scooter at 97 mpg for alternate transport
∑ Get a solar hot water system now
PEACEFUL SANCTUARY IDEAS
∑ Create aromatic pathways to come through to the home
∑ Journaling by the pond requires a writing pod
∑ Long winding roadways create harmony and story interest
∑ Whispering trees create sweet sounds ... variety helps
∑ Groundcovers reduce mowing ...noises/gasoline
∑ A contemplation zone is a priority w/stones, grass and pond
∑ Move an old bathtub outdoors fill with long hot gardenhose
∑ Carve out grass furniture on mounded land
∑ Create an outdoor shower for a real sunbath
∑ Build soft dirt mounds/hillocks for pure charm
∑ Design small sound making waterfalls
MAKE YOUR LAND PRODUCE FOR YOU
∑ Multi-purpose nursery buildings
∑ Build an outdoor stove
∑ Position firewood near where it falls
∑ Create multiple water catchment solutions
∑ Baby pools and 5 gallon buckets= all-purpose carriers
∑ Create multi-purpose ponds
∑ Fashion bio islands as practical landcrafting
∑ Design perma-clusters for companion plantings
∑ Arrange for sun-tiering in your foraging zone
∑ Create versatile medicine gardens
∑ Use windbreaks for beauty and protection
HAVE YOUR LAND BECOME A PLAYSPACE
∑ Build treehouses for adventure
∑ Create a cabaret table for food and a small stage
∑ Organize hottubs and steambath rooms
∑ Have a star gazing zone or kiva
∑ Add a performance stage and solar lights
∑ Arrange a dance area
∑ Set up campfires with great stones
∑ Build a bandstand
∑ Have tables and chairs for discussion zones
∑ Include outdoor art boards that show ohana where to plant next
∑ Leave open space for games
HAVE A RECYCLING PLAN
∑ Know about the used goods stores
∑ Have neighbors share their resources
∑ Charged water pick-up
∑ Try to eliminate trash drop off by reusing everything
∑ Use green waste, paper and cardboard
∑ Create Animal feeding zone
MAKE GOOD FRIENDS WITH YOUR LAND
∑ Listen to the land
∑ Land has heart center
∑ Have a land purpose
∑ Understand land’s best uses/practices
∑ Know wind and sun path and gravity drainage potential
∑ Understand terra-forming to build interest
∑ Provide animal sanctuary and habitat
∑ Know road net scheme winding pathways and truck access
∑ Understand 60 day emergency supplies and get them
∑ Arrange gardens for best access
∑ Have places that serve you and make you happy
∑ Create sanctuaries for rest and prayer
BE SAAVY ABOUT BUILDING OPTIONS
∑ Build for value
∑ Have some buildings be portable
∑ Understand Polynesian compound style living
∑ Create one structure from surplus materials
∑ Use nursery buildings to get a foothold on the land
∑ Be flexible with layout
∑ Know real needs of a 21 cent home
∑ Understand and protect the long-range view-scape
∑ Have surplus areas
∑ Have timber stand and wild zone
∑ Use tree areas as storage area
NAMING AREAS,THE HOME, THE LAND ITSELF
∑ Create a story for your presence with the land, the lands idea of itself, and all the key land marks on the acreage so you have a shorthand to describe where things are. Make signage and artistic statuary to mark these zones.
