A stab at house design

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Originally Posted by Old Mechanic

South facing mountain side with a significant spring fed creek that never runs dry.
Water power for electricity, fresh water, and solar heat collection. I think you will find that these locations are being grabbed up fairly rapidly.

regards
Mech

The right property is self-sufficient in important ways. I'd live in a jacal or a decrepit single wide to have it.

Here's a snip from Gene Logsdon:

" . . I wanted a place that would contain habitat for a complete food chain, (a complete set of ecological music-makers), that is, a section for woodlot, another each for pasture, garden, orchard, pond and creek."

Do some digging around in his books or blog posts for more depth on what is not obvious about what is seemingly obvious.

For the pleasure of it, here is a post on an unrelated topic. I can't have been the only one with tears in my eyes.

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