Category:Land
We have seven acres of land near Canela which we'll be moving on to soon. In the mean time we're accumulating various links and resources about independent off-grid sustainable living in this category which will help us to formulate ideas for what to build and the best and most sustainable ways to go about it.
The longer-term plan is to have a thriving agroforest and a number of small dwellings surrounding a common area so that we can have a small community of like-minded people living there and working together on various related projects. As usual with the OD approach we'd like to run this community in a very systematic way that exhibits a corresponding organic template that can be used to establish other instances of the same kind of community on other land.
The move
First we have to move from our flat in Curitiba which was a slight problem since we're in a lease contract until March 2013. Our contract allows us to terminate early but would cost the remainder of the rent. Also we'd need to sell all our furniture and there's also an obligation to have the place fully painted, all this would total about R$3000 minus around R$700 we'd get for the furniture, oven and fridge. But luckily for us we saw some people looking at the place for rent next to us and we said to them that our place here is available if they wanted to sign over the contract - we said if they did this they could keep all the furniture, because if we can sign over the contract we don't need to pay the penalty or get the place painted!
We needed to get a lot of tools for building our new place and putting a fence around our vegetables.
Day 1
Day 2
Day two was off to an excellent start, we had a nice breakfast and got on the road early, crossing the border into Santa Catarina before 9am. The engine was getting a bit hot up the many steep and winding mountain roads so we had to stop every couple of hours to let the car cool off a bit, but there were many nice places to stop and take in the scenery and do a bit of stretching and meditation.
After we got about 250km into the journey disaster struck! the clutch stopped working and we had to roll into a gas station (luckily there was one nearby when this started!) after we stopped in the gas station we couldn't start again as there was no way to get it into gear. We looked under the car and saw that there was fluid leaking, and then we saw that the clutch fluid container was empty! There was mechanic there, but he seemed really dodgy and was talking about there being many expensive things to take out and check so we thought it best to avoid him. The guys at the gas station said the only other option was to get the car towed to the nearest mechanic about 10km away.
I decided to do some on-the-fly learning from our numerous Lada Niva manuals on the laptop, and soon found a potential solution which was to "bleed" the hydraulics of the clutch system by unscrewing the hose leading out of the master cylinder barrel and then pumping the clutch pedal for a few minutes to clear all the air out of the system. Then when the pushing the pedal responded with some pressure again, we put it all back together and topped up the fluid reservoir. We also needed to do a temporary solution on the leaking hose which was causing the problem, so we put some insulation tape around the leaky bit and fasten it in place with a twistie from a bag of seeds. This solution enabled us to get about 20km to the next decent mechanic who's replacing the hose now (and also had to flush out the system again because it turned out the guys at the gas station gave us the wrong stuff!). Here's a picture of our first DIY repair job, called "gambiarra" in Portuguese - or in my "portenglaise" spelling, "gumbiaha" :-)
Documentaries
Books & Libraries
- Caminos sostenibles - huge library with topics such as: agriculture, permaculture, construction, water treatment, etc.
- Permacoletivo - huge library covering: organic gardens, agroforest, permaculture, water treatment, medicinal herbs, etc. Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, English.
- Ebah - library containing academic and hands on texts and books. There's a huge variety of topics, such as: agroforest, agroecology, herbal plants, ecotecture. In Portuguese only.
- Permear - another library
- Awesome 2000 page PDF on many different free and renewable energy designs from free-energy-info.co.uk
Links
- Off Grid Living
- Useful resources at frugallysustainable.com
- Lots of good info from permaculture and soil to cooking and oven design
- Simple Sand Hydroponics
- How to make ethanol from compost
- Video intro by the guys from the Living Off The Grid face channel
- Fair Companies - community and access to tools on sustainable culture
- cd3wd - huge (34GB) DIY resource for 3rd world countries
Subcategories
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Pages in category "Land"
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