F. Anton

Jay Smithy wrote:Another video showing possibilities.
This video has one technical error - I would not call a wood-burning device "Endless". However, otherwise the device clearly works. If one successfully uses solar heat for heating the water, it also shows that without any electricity, pump, mechanical means or moving parts, water can be lifted at least 3-4 feet up and automatically circulated with only a check valve to make it function.  (Some might try to classify a check valve as a moving part, lol)
Personally, I would add that this gentleman could improve his device by adding a coil around the outside of the chimney as a pre-heater before going into the inside directly heated coil.

The technical question remains how high can water be lifted through this general method, which might be quite high, or at least as high as needed to make the system work practically or better.

The challenge is then how best to cool the water to a temperature favorable to the fish.

a simple ram pump would work in your project, a friend have one working years without stop! maintenance only when something get stuck and/or block the filter mesh.

The idea is pretty cool, but as many here stated, you need to check the legal side of this idea.
I myself living in Asia last time bought some exotic seeds from US, ALL my seeds was confiscated at customs.
What I wanna say, it is uncertain globally trading seeds online. You have to resource all countries and all seeds you intended to work before go online with a platform like that.
OR
Just use tor hidden service without caring of any legal aspect. But you have to warn your traders that, seeds or plant parts can be confiscated by authorities in some countries.

Anyway, the idea is cool, you just need to work out the legal part of the business.

Never to late to contribute, I think.
I own 10 ha of land that I can't manage on my own and I'm looking for sell it as soon I find someone to pay what I'm asking for.
Besides I have another property, small, only 1 acre in size, where right now I'm planing to develop my homestead with my family.
The best advice I can give you, go small for it, then you can manage the land properly, remember that in this specific issue, quality speaks higher than quantity. 50 acres is a lot of land to whom willing to live out in the boonies.
Anyway good luck and my best wishes with your decision.

Miles Flansburg wrote: Howdy Anton, welcome to permies!
Have you heard of the work of Masanoba fukuoka?
Here is a permies thread that might have some interesting answers for you.

https://permies.com/t/2214/masanobu-fukuoka

Hi and thanks for the referred link.
I had never heard about Fukuoka, it is all new to me. But I did learn how to make seed ball when I was a yong boy, my granpa taught me it all he also told me, that was the easiest way to plant something, interesting I was reading about Fukuoka's seed ball and it all remembered my infancy! Great things are simple. Thank you, I will read more about Fukuoka.

Hello folks! It is my first post, if its not the right place, please mod, fell free to move.

I have a specific question about land and soil.

My wife and me, we own an acre of land and we are looking to permanently to move there as soon as we can.

Our land is located in central Thailand in the middle of the rice fields, it is a very hot climate(tropical), about 3 or 4 months per year we have the raining season as well we have the dry season, the we have to manage the water very well.

My question is, Is that possible to transform this plot of land in a permaculture project, I know permaculture mimic nature, but I have only rice around, lol..

More details about the land, it is flat, no river, no water(perhaps we need a pond for catches from rainfall, but there is Chanel used to flood fields), soil is clay(rice is planted in flooded field).

That's all info I have, if you need more details let me know please.

In my house today, in the back yard, I have hundreds of fruit trees with a year or so, done to be planted definitively in the land, but as I put the land is a rice field, then what kind of work do I need to do in the land before I plant those trees?
Sorry, but I do not have any picture of the place, but it is easy to imagine a rice field. Another useful info, we do not plant rice there more than 2 years now, the soil is hard, compact and dry.


Thank you for any input.

Regards,
Anton