Gene Rivera

david pittaway wrote:Hi good people.

I live in an area with "a subtropical climate with abundant sunshine" - it never frosts, and never snows.

The ground onto which I am thinking about placing earthbags is also very very hard. It's the type of ground that one never wants to dig into!

The specific site I have in mind for a small earth-bag project will be completely protected from moisture and water. Like this:



Also, the earth-bag component of this project (should it go ahead) will only be about one metre high max, possibly only half a metre. Straw bales might constitute the walls thereafter, or even timber framing and cladding.

Considering the specific conditions I have listed, do I need to make a rubble-gravel trench, or can I get away without it?  

Thanks,
Dave  

I think that you would be ok skipping it, if is as dry as you said. How is your average humidity? Subtropical? Does it rain? Subtropical arid?

Ben Skiba wrote:Hello I live in Northwest arizona.Was wondering if you know of any permaculture workshops events in your area?

Unfortunately, I have not heard anything about permaculture around here. 😕

To be honest with you I think this is the first time I have ever heard about that (fracking) around here. Not that is not happening, only, that I never heard anyone mentioning it until now, but I am interested. Wow, there's a lot of fracking,  1,314 wells!! And 27 in Apache County.

Joe Danielek wrote:Sounds like you're in the area north of St Johns, south of Witch Wells off of 191. Medium elevation averaging 5800' or so depending where you are. We have 36 acres in Sierra Mountain Ranch that is at 6300' and heavily wooded with old growth Pinion and Juniper. The community well is on our section that will provide a solid backup to our well being drilled this summer. Joe

Yeah! Good description! Thanks! I almost bought land there but decided on Red Sky Ranch...

Miles Flansburg wrote:Howdy Gene, I was wondering if there might be other parcels of land next to yours that are for sale ? I always thought it would be nice to have permie neighbors but have always wanted my own place too. What is your place like? Any trees, seasonal water flow, weather, etc. Any pictures of the area?

Oh, if I find any land deals I will let you know, there are always land deals around here. Thanks!

"What is your place like? Any trees, seasonal water flow, weather, etc. Any pictures of the area?"

We have 36 acres and the only trees around here are pinion, junipers and cedars, the weather is northeastern Arizona weather, it rains little here and humidity is very low. It is sunny for most of the year, we get water from a community well.

Thanks for your interest!

We are a middle-aged couple looking for liked, and like-minded individuals to share our land with. We are off-grid in 36 acres in Northeastern Arizona and aiming for self sustainability and security. We aim for 2 couples - musicians, starving artists, and creative souls... Interested? Let's communicate.

Amanda Hernandez-Ruiz wrote:Hello

My name is Amanda and I really don’t know how I stumbled upon this site but me and my family have been interested in buying land or becoming part of a community. I’m 34 years old married for 16 years and have 3 children and one child on the way. Maybe some one could help me out if you community is not accepting new people are there any other communities or how could I go about starting one. We are Hispanic (Puerto Rican) and wanting to get away from the busy American life. We would like to focus

Thank you

We have land and we are looking for friends to come join us...

Travis Johnson wrote:My father is moving in this direction, and he is elderly and has Alzheimer's. The man was like my Grandmother and coud grow veggies on ledgerock it seems. He wants to convert some of his land into a raised bed strawberry U=Pick farm, and I am okay with that, and will help him out.

Our recent plans of getting out of sheep, selling two of our houses, really have to do with my aging parents. My Mom is really bad, and I expect a call at any minute saying she has died. Katie and i are in a position to not only care for my father, but also my two adopted isters who live at home who have Down Snydrome. It really is going to be hard because I have three people who cannot really function with a lot of change in their lives, but we are family, and that is what we do here.

We differ a bit in that our family does not use nursing homes. As I tye this, I am sitting in the exact spot where my Grandmother took her last breath, and my Grandfather, and my Great grandmother. It is also where my father was born, and that of my uncle. I mean that literally; they came out of my Grandmother here in a home-birth. We are a farm family in rural Maine, we literally are born and die in the same spot. We have been here for 9 generations, and I really do not see that changing. Homesteading, farming and permiculture are just a huge part of that next-generational transfer.

My respects to you! I wish we could all do it like you, but sometimes intentions are all there is...

Ben Gorski wrote:Whats up Gene.    How has it been for you and your partner thus far??    How far off from a 'Bigger' City are you?    Just curious as I am a Teacher as well of the job oppurtuinties.

What kind of 'help' are you looking for? home building? Earthworks? GArdening? TRee planting?  

DO you have any pictures of your place?

How is your Water supply/quality?

We are a bit younger than what you seek (in our early 30s) but it woud be nice to know for other potential people.

Good Luck.

Hi, boy are we late answering you, hi Ben! Sorry about that long delay, my apologies, we have been doing fine thank you! We are a couple of hours from Gallup New Mexico but we are in Arizona, close to the northeastborder to NM. The reason in our attempt to build a community is to have others around, to enjoy company,  and to build an small community of good and decent people who together enjoy the safety that it provides.

As far as the type of help, there's no specific need of, but rather, that ideally we could build a community that its members provided for "everything" that the community needed, be it, building, growing or animal husbandry.

The water is good to great quality and it comes from a community well, we eventually would like to dig our own water well.

Thank you!