Mike is a homesteader, gardener, engineer, wood worker, blacksmith and most recently a greenhouse designer. He heard about permaculture in 2015 and has been learning ever since.
I was the $1 GAMCOD person above. I used seeds I saved myself which saved money. Without a previous garden a person could have saved some of those seeds from their groceries. I did use a pitchfork that I already owned and a wagon I built years ago. The area of crappy soil (dirt) I used was luckily inside a fenced area so I didn't have to build a deer fence. I did start seedlings inside without plastic or cardboard pots as part of my experimentation.
It would be interesting to see how cheap the GAMCOD plots would be if we accounted for everything we're using/borrowing that a total newbie might need to source to copy us.
I'm not sure if everyone puts roofs on them but looking at my pics above you can see that most of the water runs off them and doesn't really hit the sides. If slanting rain hits the side, it would run into the pile at times, but it's a pretty small amount of rain compared to the volume of wood it's going to touch.
I could imagine one name for the contest and a different name for a future kickstarter or movie title...
Victory Garden Challenge
Yard to Food Challenge
Grow Food Instead of Grass Contest
Grass meh, Food good challenge
Grow $500 of food with $50 and 5 hours (500/50/5 challenge)
Grow 50,000 calories with $50 and 5 hours (50k/50/5 challenge)
Dirt to Garden as easy as possible
Humidity is a number that people have gotten used to using but it is hard to compare air masses of vastly different temperatures based on the % humidity.
I think Dew Point is a much better measure. Your outside dew point was around 31 degrees. Inside was 44 degrees. So it's not terribly different in actual humidity. If you didn't have the windows open, you'd keep more of that dry outside air out and the interior moisture generation (sink, shower, breath, etc) could help keep up the humidity a bit.
Mike is a homesteader, gardener, engineer, wood worker, blacksmith and most recently a greenhouse designer. He heard about permaculture in 2015 and has been learning ever since.
