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Old 02-12-2002, 06:04 PM
len brauer
 
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Default Advice on land plot (long)

g'day david,

perma-c aside what sort of aspects do you have available? for me
aspect plays an important part in the production of food plants, and
how you situate your house so as to incorporate some environmental
friendliness into the design.

so my experieces to date are you need and aspect that will allow for
the house to be on a true north facing attitude, and you need from
north to east aspect for growing your food plants. we have recently
moved to rural in qld, and the aspect for those factors was the thing
that decided which block we bought. the degree of winter sun you get
determines how soon you can plant your summer crops and what if
anything you can grow through winter.

we then designed and had constructed our eco' friendly house built
along the 'warm-house, cool-house' principal. to me taking all this
into consideration is also part of following pc principals. we need to
make as small a foot print as possible. not any good at working out
where you might be using degrees are you able to say? at a guess could
it be northern nsw?

but again buy land that offers the right aspects.

my thoughts

len

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