Hi from Tasmania!

Hi all my name is George, living in NW Tasmania

My wife and I live on a ~600sqm town block on the edge of town by some forest. We built a small house (5x7m) 1.5 stories The grass was dug up and piled into beds, a variety of trees  were planted and we are 3 years in now. A few cubic meters of biochar was added early on, roughly 15cubic meters of woodchips have been laid on paths, many loads of silage, a few loads of compost, many loads of sea grass, a few loads of kelp. It disappears into the black sandy silty soil a bit but the top soil is building.
There is a 4 bed hydroponic system built from IBC tanks, it's essentially a flood and drain aquaponics system but no fish. I feed her a hand full of blood and bone, a hand full of chicken poo pellets, a hand full of ash, some duck poo, some pee, whatever really lol. If I fed her more the plants would probably be booming but we get a decent handfull of strawberries at the moment. She runs from a solar panel and a single battery, with a light sensor switch so she turns off at night.
There are 5 female muscovy ducks who keep the slugs down and lay eggs and are just the sweetest.
We built a ~3x8m greenhouse from recycled windows and a 1.5m brick wall on the south side. There are some blue drums full of water which keep the temps a little warmer overnight, oh and a banana plant...
Lots of projects on the go but the next is heating for the winter so I'll go over to the rocket stove section and make my post!

Welcome to Permies!

Hello from cold Quebec, Canada! Sounds like you’re going to love it here, lots of information and very nice people!

Hi George
Just wondering if you live near me?
I'm in Elizabethtown with 400m2 of vege gardens and 30 laying hens.
I make all my own compost as we have a horse as well.

Cheers Warren Connors

Warren Connors wrote:Hi George
Just wondering if you live near me?
I'm in Elizabethtown with 400m2 of vege gardens and 30 laying hens.
I make all my own compost as we have a horse as well.

Cheers Warren Connors

Hi Warren I live in Smithton so far NW. A horse helps the compost pile a lot right! I don't have one but I get to collect from some friends horses.

Welcome!  Always glad to see folks from all over the world here.