Chris Blomeley

Brand is important and buying local. Think about distance of travel and how much weight. 500w I would say is max if you go higher watts your battery capacity will reduce.
Ebike and a trailer is possible, be realistic about the weight of cargo and size weight of rider. Happy to advise more. Christopher

I think you may have hit on something very interesting. The caring industry is exactly that 'an industry' my experience of working backs up what you say about isolation, the segregation of groups of people goes against all aspect of permaculture (interdependant and interactive zones/people). all that said the solution can be worked out in the problem, first we need to observe what is going on then we can see quick and sustainable wins. By that i mean if you can find out what people want to grow/do you then have a starting point. Growing plants/food is such a great achievement, nurturing and looking after, sharing the joy and the falls. Who ever you are you can deepen your relationship with extended family/friends choose some plants and grow together...

Thank you both, that's probably saved me a lot of time and resources. I need to go away and work on the thread you mentioned and draw up some plans. I chose sub terrainian RMH as as already have a second year of salad crops etc. First things first I also need to build my first RMH I've played with designs (on paper) from clips on permies. I would like to buy some plans or one of your books but I don't know which one, any advice please.

Big thanks

Chris

Hi, my location is in Essex UK. Raised bed sounds like a construction job which will take the weight of cob/soil. is it possible to sink the RMH and have the pipe work in the soil?

Hi, I have the same problem to work out, our community farm has 2 poly tunnels 4x16 yards perhaps we could scrtch each others heads!

Hi Erica, thank you sooo much for the inspiring work and thanks to Paul for bringing all this together.