Hugo Morvan

No i've not been there with a torch yet.
@ Nancy yeah maybe that's it. Too rich. They were so abundant.

I have a hoophouse, in front of it, my neighbor farmer always dumps a load of biocompost in spring, in which i grow some Pepo's / courgettes during the season. End of season i wheelbarrow the compost in and seed in there. Works very well. This year more worms then ever are in the compost. And what i seeded didn't pop. Mostly salads. But other transplants do work.
I was thinking that the worms maybe ate my seeds.
All suggestions welcome.

There's a whole bunch of French guys doing their French thing with Rocket Mass Heaters somewhere on the interwebzz, building , designing and knowing better. So if you can't find abroad that might be an entry.

R Ranson, how will it be restricted then? Anybody can chime in, Permies does not know the age of the user.
Like you mentioned, people like to speak to similar, which is a good enough reason in itself to me. I guess they like it, because they experienced the world in the same way. They don't have to explain things , saving time and energy, moving things forward quicker. It doesn't have to mean that older people cannot chime into those groups, that might even be welcomed at times as experienced people always have a wise thing to add to the conversation. But letting the young lead themselves without having an authority figure surveilling them can be something that keeps them energized. They've had their whole youth of that already, much more so than we did. We were so free when we were young, we were allowed to make dangerous errors all the time.
It's not that there is another permaculture platform where people come together, neither should we wish for it, especially for the reasons you've mentioned before, they might even stick around a bit longer on here if we provide them a space.. How old is the average active Permies member, i guess you will know?

Although i'm older, i take the freedom to respond, i think it doesn't work like that here, a place for only young people, how to even check that? But it definitely is a good idea to have a section where young people speak of young people stuff.
The problem you will have though and that's that old people really love to advice younger people, so it won't be young people only.. But there could be a Junior Permies and Senior Permies category, why not?

New row of peach trees on a new plot. Facing south, because they can handle anything where I am..

Ponds are great for biodiversity, everybody should have one, they multiply the shelter for so many insects and so on that you have a much greater chance of stabalizing the microclimate around whatever you want to grow. If it's connected to a stream, fish will come i guess. Much depends on size of the pond as well. I would advice against making it gigantic at once, but definitely start a small one to see what happens.

Welcome. Many beans are self pollinating, but to be sure it's best to attract bees indeed. I wouldn't know about climbing plants, but wouldn't a herb like rosemary,  oregano, thyme  or lavender flower at the same time? That attracts bees.
You could also pollinate by yourself, but it ain't easy!

Well done for not giving up! I think i would have with that many predators.
Grow grexes and save the seeds from the survivors, resist to eat the winners. If you have many lettuce varieties, i grow about a hundred from colleages who do similar the survivors will cross and you'll get a superadapted modern landrace in time.

Have you tried perennial kales? Their extensive established root system permits them to outwait attacks.

I doubt they'll devour medicinal herbs that can safe you money to use for veggies from elsewhere.

More bitter localized varieties might help too then these juicy fresh veggies. Like Endives and a more bitter lettuce. You've gotto adapt your taste buds and cooking style to that, which can be hard, but maybe less hard than this incredible fight against horrible critters.

Good luck!

Jealous making property sir.
That's a great way of fencing, but deer jump very high. Any wolve packs around?
Water works are like a line of ponds, one flowing into the other, it creates differing niches, which boost biodiversity, and giving a living space to keep pest eating insects, so plagues get less of a chance.
You could help block the wind by planting water loving trees there. With these kind of things i'd try first and see if it works. With the droughts and floods, bureaucrats should turn around in a couple of years.
Did you check out Sepp Holzer's work? He's like on this big scale farming.
I'll just bounce some ideas for you, key line tree planting, syntropic farming techniques. perennial varieties of veggies, because they get big roots and will be easier bouncing back from attacks from any eater, localized seeds always do better, even better safe your own seeds and mix varieties in a modern landrace style, grow wheat like rye and oats and what have you for bread in future and to surpress the nettles and unwanted local plants taking over too much if nobody is there herding..
But whatever you do, start small, feel if it works, observe and then scale up a level, don't invest like mad in one thing you're sure about that it's going to work, because many times it doesn't, better many things at first and fail, fail, fail and keep going and learn, learn, learn and then win ,win,win.
And keep telling us about it, bacause many times people come on here with big things and then you don't hear whatever happened, which is not social, because this is a hive mind registry where people put time into. So i won't write any more and start my gardening meselves.
Ciao, all the best!