"len brauer" wrote in message
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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.


The house and main gardens would go on the gentler slopes at the bottom
of the South hill, ie basically facing North, there are enough wiggles
in the hills to align the house anything from about 30 degrees W of N to
10 degrees E of N.

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.


It is the shadow of the N hill that concerns me in that respect. As it
is nearly the longest day now it is hard to judge what the sunlight will
be like nearer the shortest day.

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?


Correct guess.

but again buy land that offers the right aspects.

my thoughts

len

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Thanks for your thoughts

David