This is my dream: To live as my forefathers once did - in harmony with the land that sustains us. A project to investigate and innovate the creation of a low impact home with methods of living in a form of permaculture designed to sustain my family and improve biodiversity. To leave the land richer than before and in doing so enable others to do so.
Keeping your cool
Posted 19/04/08 by Matt B in the Feeding Yourself category
off all the challenges of my dream of a back to nature lifestyle the set of problems provided by "replacing the things we take for granted" has vexed me the most. For example fridges and freezers are hungry beasts and don't sit so well with the idea of living off grid. Get a few hot but cloudy days and there might not be enough juice to keep the food cool.Actually this has never been a problem for me as I have had a solution based on unglazed pots in my head for a long time. The theory is this - you fill an unglazed pot with water and put it in the shade. The water will seap through and eveperate and the remaining water will be very cold as a result. That should adapt to storing food nicely.
Apparently I'm not the only one that has been thinking these thoughts. The people that need it most are now benefiting from the idea. The idea is not mine - I picked it up from a tutorial on what the Bible was on about when it spoke about giving someone a "cup of cold water". So now you know too.
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