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New Permaculture Project Mohave County AZ

 
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Hi!  Our non profit in on 330 acres in Mohave county near Alamo Lake. In February, a volunteer hydrologist is coming to help construct a site plan to slow and sink rainwater. If anyone would like some hands on learning about desert hydrology and permaculture “slow and sink” construction please join us!
 
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Jen Anderson wrote:Hi!  Our non profit in on 330 acres in Mohave county near Alamo Lake. In February, a volunteer hydrologist is coming to help construct a site plan to slow and sink rainwater. If anyone would like some hands on learning about desert hydrology and permaculture “slow and sink” construction please join us!



Hi - heading from Cottonwood to Quartzsite over the course of 2 weeks, starting in a couple days. My gf and I are full-timers in a truck camper. Have been looking at various lands in Mojave & Yavapai counties for potential permacuture-type experiments & off-grid living. Very interested in desert rainwater sinking. What's your timing looking like?
 
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Hi David!  We will be working on this project through the end of February if you both would like to join in. I can offer free camping with water and septic hook up. I also have a restroom at the campsite with a flush toilet. The shower heater just broke…

What is your experience/background?
 
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Jen Anderson wrote:Hi David!  We will be working on this project through the end of February if you both would like to join in. I can offer free camping with water and septic hook up. I also have a restroom at the campsite with a flush toilet. The shower heater just broke…

What is your experience/background?



Your amenities sound perfectly suitable. We've been in the camper (on and off) since we graduated college in 2020. I do remote editing & writing work, and make music on the side. I'm fairly handy, and enjoy fixing the things that break in our camper & truck. My girlfriend does art & energy healing. We've done a couple work-trade type deals, one in Port Angeles where we helped a couple do setup tasks for their new farm-business-incubator, and another in Portland where we pulled invasive blackberries.

Idk exactly what type of work your project entails or what the details would be, but we're flexible people and love to learn new things, so we'd be down to help out with a wide range of activities.
 
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It sounds like you two have the dream mobile lifestyle!  Nice!

This month our focus is on capturing and sinking rainwater. This entails building lots of small earthen features like small check dams and berms.

The second project is packing and relocating all of the tools and supplies from one work area to the new workshop.

There is a lot of stuff to do here. If you enjoy the area and the project, I am happy to trade free amenities. There is also a lake here to fish and I have about 30 chickens.  All the free eggs you can eat! About to plant a big vegetable garden. I’m trying to make this place self sufficient.

 
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Also…I would not expect you to help out all day.  A couple hours a day would be great. If you want to help out more that is up to you
 
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Ok that sounds great! All right up our alley. I'll PM you my phone number so we can exchange on details
 
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Great!
 
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