This is great for a homesteader on 10 acres, but I'm looking for
something that works on a 1/4 acre lot that already has a bunch of
stuff on it like food forests, house and garage (for co-housing),
compost, vermicompost, rain catchment, etc. On a lot that size, you
need most or all of the coppiced wood for fertility if you don't
want to import it. You gotta have something that goes on the roof,
like PV, or something really small.
This is a design problem that is not handled or solved that I know
of. If everyone on the planet moved to 20 acre homesteads, or 5 acres
or even 1 acre and grew wood for fuel, it wouldn't be the highest use
for trees or wood on this planet, and therefore not sustainable. It's
all well and good to talk about how others aren't really applying
permaculture, but how many of us are fully off grid and using fully
renewable (over the long term) energy sources that could work
anywhere on the planet - particularly in US suburbs? What would
happen if we as a group put our collective genius to the task of
solving this one?
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