alt Hacker NewsI 100% believe you! We're planning on doing a custom build for our next home, and I'm going to budget for solar. Like you said, it's gotten so much easier these days and I think that we don't take advantage of this because it requires budgeting/saving and because paying a monthly bill can be so much easier in the short-term. But I'm 100% going to do this.
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polairscience • today at 4:52 PM
Great, it's a life changing thing being fully independent of external chaos. If you are able to DIY it pays back in less than 5 years.
If you're building a place, consider how you could arrange some of your basement for effective food storage.
This family[0] appears to be 90% agriculturally self-sufficient: they occasionally eat out, but grow most of what they eat. They store a lot of food in their basement, critically, with a DIY ventilation system. If you're building a home from scratch, and you're independently minded, it's the ideal time to build in some food storage and ventilation access in your floor plan.
When I showed this video to a coworker who also eats mostly off her own land, she recommended beginning by experimenting with preserving store-bought produce before planting an ambitious garden that yields more food than you know how to store.
[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz7OVfaYeSA