Hello from the Philippines
 

I am English and living in the Southern Philippines where I am building an eco friendly farmhouse and setting up a 6 acre permaculture food forest and vegetable garden, hoping to create a self sustaining environment.

Welcome to ER:)

That sounds like a really cool project, but it'll take lots of time and work. What is already done and how much is left?

The house building should be complete in a month but I still have to make all the kitchen cabinets and most of the furniture. I built a 20 feet square workshop first so I can work on stuff. I built an adjoining car port that doubles as an open workshop and a large wood shed where fresh cut timber is stacked and held straight while it dries.

A shade netted seed raising bed came next.

The land already has hundreds of mature durian, coconut, coffee, rambutan, santol, lanzones, chestnut, marang, camansi, jackfuit trees, etc. During the last six months I have planted hundreds of new fruit trees and planted lots of veggies.

I am currently making a partly submerged catchment tank 11 feet deep and 5 feet square that collects water from a spring. Over and on top of this I am making a 14 feet high steel tower with a 1,500 liter water tank on top. Water will be pumped from the catchment tank up to the top tank with an electric pump activated by float switches. Water from the top tank goes to a pressure tank and then to the kitchen and bathrooms. A hot water tank will be installed in the attic that has an electric heater and thermostat. If the boiler/stove idea works it will keep this hot water tank hot enough so the electric heater is hardly used. If we have no power. water will gravity feed from the top tank. If that runs out we can get low pressure water from the catchment tank or the incoming pipe from the spring.

I haven't started on the dirty kitchen yet. I am trying to educate myself about rocket stoves and get some suggestions from those with some experience before I start.

Sounds like a great place. Any chance we could get some pictures? :)

Welcome to the site!

Welcome im also new here
Jhon

Thanks.

I put a link in my signature to my web site where I keep a log with pictures of most of my projects in case anyone is interested but as a new member I am not allowed to have that link yet.

I have added a few pictures here of things that are most likely to interest you guys.

1. The house floor plan.
2. What the house is supposed to look like when its finished.
3. The workshop building before I added the wood shed.
4, 5 & 6. Views of the inside of the workshop.
7 & 8. The tool cabinet I made to keep things tidy.
9. The 22 feet x 16 feet x 10 feet high wood shed.
10. Two local guys helping me make one of the benches that fit along the workshop walls.

mean spamming??:mad:

It makes sense. I have been running discussion board sites since before the web and spamming is now a massive problem. They are destroying the internet as thousands of people just give up trying and delete their web sites.

I have closed a few sites myself because I got fed up with the spamming.

Same with me,.