How technological debt builds up on the property and how I am planning to deal with some of it.
PS I mention a video about the sewer system. It exists, but I am not going to publish it. After I made it, I realized that it is out of scope. I want to talk about reforestation, improving soil health, and the water adsorbing capacity of the land. Not about all the big and little projects that are going on to make the house work as a house.
THE FLIP FLOP LIFE 
We have started using the cut off branches to make ”fences” – i don’t have words for this in English – but we hammer down two opposing larger, taller sticks about one and a half meters apart and fill it with other branches. It creates lee (lä in Swedish) – we have raised beds on the sunny, lee side of the ”fence ” and the insects thrive there too.
Earlier we would burn everything (as you might recall, Frank) but this is a much more environmentally sustainable approach. The ”fence ” shrinks over time and we can fill it with more sticks and branches. We also create compost heaps with these fences and we don’t add poop – just spent soil, weeds and dead leaves. We haven’t done it yet but the new high beds will have a metal net sat in a tube for food scraps so the composting will be done ”on the spot ”.
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Ooh, that’s a great idea. We have some sticks that don’t fit in the shreder, and we could make a lee from those, or perhaps even some other sort of fences. I was thinking of a kind of box to make bigger and better-shaped compost heaps.
Still, I don’t ‘see’ how it all comes together. Could you send me a picture please via email, please?
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interessant 🤔
just a thought , could the option of having multiple compost heaps in strategic places help ‘paying’ of the dept ?
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Thanks for your comment, : mangopleasantly519854b8bc! Well, in multiple places would be more practical than all in one place. I mean the easiest would be to make the heaps in the places where you find the branches and leaves, and where you can also use the compost. But that is not always the case. Also compost heaps need warmth, but putting them in the sun would not be good – they get too warm. And they need to be moist, but not too wet. So, if the place where you get the material or want to use the compost is too sunny or too wet, it’s in the end not a good idea to place it there. I guess, I will discover some optimal places and some less optimal, and there will always be some carrying or dragging around of material.
But all that still means I need to do the shredding and the mixing ( with Resistencio’s pooh for example ), which means the paying off still needs to go first. Unfortunately.
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