How much snow do you get? If you can get into ice producing maybe you can prove up a heating system that i have had in the back of my mind for years. The logging trucks used to come down the Sierras to the mill near me and in those days brakes needed all the help they could get, before jake brakes on the diesels they had a water tank behind the cab with "paddel wheels" inside chain driven off of the drive shaft.
When they arrived at my level there was only a steamy mist left of the tank of water. In a freezing situation with wind I think oil could be heated and pumped through a circulation loop that could provide controlled melting in cold times for household use and which might allow snow melt enough to make ice if you need it to go into summer. All depending on amount of snow available.
Sounds like you don't have much water winter or summer if so and there is a high spot out in the wind area you could set up an ice barn/shed with wind mills of appropriate type attached and use the heated oil [homegrown?] to melt the snow enough to make ice for storing and melt for house hold while saving enough ice for summer in the highly insulated ice barn all gravity feed.
Feel free to question parts of this as I am known to be oblique without seeing it.
