Marc Dube

The last couple years we have managed to grow and keep enough to keep eating our own for 9-10 months.

We have been doing ten 30' rows every year mulched heavily with the deep bedding from the chicken coop. They store from October to June in a cold room in the basement.

I've spent a bit of time thinking about TEG's but never thought of combining it with a rocket stove.

It might be well suited to putting the TEG on a mass that is heated, the other side of the TEG needs to be kept as cool as possible as electricity is made by a temperature difference from one side of it to the other.

So one side would be thermally attached to the heated mass and the other side needs to be cooled as efficiently as possible. Possible ideas are large heat sinks with fins to catch airflow, possibly in contact with the ground to let the ground cool it. Pump cool water over it,

Hops might fit your parameters.

I use the same technique but I use pure tallow and completely saturate the boots or leather paying special attention to all seams.

The 85 year Olds as hopefully I would learn more in that tour than they did. Turn each focal point into a conversation.

I have a small shallow pond on my property that is thick with cattails. I cut the green cattails in mid summer let it dry and run it over with a mower and can make huge amounts of mulch in short order.

I also have and grow wild dock like some grow comfrey and I use it in similar ways.

Mk Neal wrote:I’ll go for the plains. Flat is flexible and easy. Things stay put. Water soaks in instead of running off. Two dimensional maps match reality.

Haha things don't stay put in the plains where I live 25 mph is a calm dalm.

I live on the plains and wish I had more contours to work with.

I always plan exactly what I want and have to buy because I am extremely frugal and don't want to spend a penny more than necessary.

In my head I am thinking 1 protion of old stuff to 6 protion of new stuff? or maybe you do equal amounts? Obviously this would be an art not an exact science.  


It's the other way around 6 parts stay in the bucket and 1 part gets taken out and replaced daily.