"I feels ya bro."
With the savings from your diesel power, you'll want to prep your living space. The optimal space for environmental control is a hemisphere with an oculus at the zenith, with the same proportion as the eye's retina to it's diameter (& coincidentally the Pantheon in Rome). Structure should be living wood, worked by
pleaching.
http://inhabitat.com/100-mile-house-competition-challenges-architects-to-build-a-home-using-only-local-materials/100-mile-challenge-willow-pleaching/
Wind to compressed air, flywheel shaft driven power tools, electricity on demand from air stored in 55-gallon drums buried under a concrete slab. Passive solar.
Fencing (
horse-high, pig-tight and bull-strong) by Hawthorne brambles.