Nick Dire

The pickings have been pretty slim (or our timing is just off!)

Anybody around Coeur d'Alene have seed potatoes for sale? We're not having much luck this Spring..

Cheers

Well, we're finally moving there after having bought the property a few years back. I'll be boots down in N Idaho after 1 July (2016), so for anyone in the area, why don't we do coffee sometime after the 4th?

Morning all!

I've got just shy of 6 acres in North Kootenai County, about 25 miles S of Sand Point. Looking at a long term development, off grid, probably log house. Really interested in heritage breed livestock (poultry, sheep, waterfowl, and if I can get away with it, a yak!) and maximizing the space with a food forest and hugelculture mounds. If you need to get rid of excess hardwoods or brush, let me know. You can feel free to drop it on my property, just drop me a line. We live full time outside of Seattle right now, but can cross over whenever if others in the area want to get together for a meet and greet this spring or summer.

Nick

CdA - Couer D'Alene. You're 6 or 7 hours south of me..... not too feasable. Good luck!

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Nick

Sorry if this has been covered already, but the best thing that I've found for the price and general resilience to environmental issues are container houses. There is a company in Seattle - ShelterKraft Werks - www.http://shelterkraft.com/ that has stock plans that can be modified to fit your needs. I've spoken with them on the phone, and hope to get to their office/factory this spring to tour their demo units. These are single story, steel structures that are as weather proof as you can get. The only thing I've found close (and way pricier) are the concrete monolithic domes. If you sing steel anchor plates into a concrete foundation, then weld the structure to those plates, you should be fine. These things do cross the ocean in some of the worst conditions outside of Antarctica.

Good luck,

NickV

Eric - how close are you to CdA? If you are in the area +/- 25 miles, I'd be interested in as much as would fit into my truck (chevy colorado) for a h-mound starter.

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Nick

So, besides black walnut and mature black locust, are there any other tree types that just shouldn't be in a h-kulture bed?

Great recommendation on the test trees; hadn't thought about that. As far as sheep/goats to contribute, I'm not sure about that as we do have predator signs (as well as plenty of deer and elk lay-down areas). Even with a caretaker swinging by, I don't think that they'd last too long. It'd probably be more efficient to hit the local zoos when they do their stall muck-outs (Zoo Poo sales). A couple of bushels of elephant apples and blammo, plenty of material to work with!

We're about 300 feet above the aquifer, on almost completely level ground. I'd end up needing to figure out how to lay out the pond to best water that area, then dig it out. I'm already looking at a grey water pond once the house is in, so I'm not sure if two pools on the property would best maximize the output of the land. When it's all said and done, we want to support a small flock of Dorset Horned Sheep, heritage turkeys and ducks, a small flock of chickens, and a sizable rabbit population. Not to mention the H Mound gardens and orchard. Self sufficient and able to generate enough revenue to turn a profit, no matter how small.