[Posting in Permaculture as it includes it, though another subreddit (that I couldn't find) may be more adept for it]
So I'm looking to socialize an internal challenge I've been having. Let's leave aside for now the woes that come with creating community if it's not well structured from the get go.
The financial structures as we know them are about to fold. They may be continuing just fine thereafter with more money printing, but I'm noticing that many don't want to be part of it anymore. Which is why over the last 1.5 years, I've been working on a system for building scalable communities nation wide and eventually international. Over the last 2 years, We have been living a couple hundred dollar a month lifestyle with the family to get used to not needing anything except for basic water (not even running), food (agriculture) and shelter (simple). Life has been nothing short of AWESOME this way. Having some chickens and a garden while buying the bare necessities from the fresh local market has been nothing short of a liberation.
The Challenge - one of many
As I can't seem to sit still and world events are bringing people to a point where they all express their interest in my now rigorously changed lifestyle, we will be working on scaling community models of 50 to 200 acre plots of land. The lands each have abundant water, some don't have any electricity connection yet, and the climate is incredibly fertile. A stable 50-68 degrees pretty much year round.
Now the main question here is, if we are going to host anywhere between 15 to 40 families on each, what resources can point me to optimal layouts for these types of plots? I would LOVE your suggestions and input. What type of expertise (the name of it) can potentially help us so we can all get educated on it? I believe it may be very hard for me to structure and plan a layout as I need to learn a variety of skills, while someone else could visit and help us with this.
Building Types
Barring the usage for electricity and other requirements, we are looking to build solely in harmony in nature, which means that no cement will be used. In this climate, working with the soil and doing super adobe/regular adobe could work, but I'm not happy with how much plastics are used for super adobe. We would like the buildings to be circular so the energy can flow. Any thoughts/suggestions? Our thought was to start out with a yurt of sorts so we can plant ourselves there, until the buildings/houses are up.
Agriculture
Given where the plot is situated in the mountains it is often used for coffee. Considering we would like to be fully self sustainable in case of supply chain disruption or other calamities, what types of foods should we think of to keep a nutritious diet up at all times?
Animals
The nature in these areas is generally WILD. This means that if we keep chickens, we better make sure it's a solidified structure that doesn't allow predators to snack on them. Besides chickens and a cow for milk (yogurts, labneh and so on), what would you identify as recommendable animals to keep in this type of climate?
Big fan of the work of Joel Salatin, truly a spokesperson for having a scaled farm that respects nature's cycles!
I would absolutely love your insights, and I hope that it's OK that my questions are quite mixed between different fields.
[wow this sub has the coolest people!!!!]
[Couple edits for clarification]
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I have written about 60 pages for consideration on the above issues. I kept it simple for the sake of getting uncomplicated feedback on the larger challenge. That doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. I have been studying and practicing permaculture and more for about 1.5 years now.
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If you don't believe I'm a millionaire, that's ok. The title of the post is pretty blatant and I can understand how this honesty can rub the wrong way. I still appreciate your feedback at all times, thank you.
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I'm a bit surprised about some of the attack comments, suggesting I don't go through with it, leave it with people that know etc. I suppose this comes with the reddit territory. I hope we can keep it cool. I assure you this post comes from a good place even if I haven't written what I know thus far in it extensively.
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I have learned an incredible amount already from those that contributed to this thread, I thank you so very much!