This document provides recommendations for critical tools and technology for permaculture homesteads, including cookstoves, axes, bicycles, housing, food processing and preservation equipment, machinery, and sources for supplies. Key recommendations include portable rocket cookstoves for around $130, a good quality axe, a bicycle equipped with internal gears and other features for around $3,800, evaluating and retrofitting existing housing structures, installing minimum solar power, food dehydrators, chainsaws around $500-800, Austrian scythes for $260, hay rakes and mulching equipment, and purchasing supplies from websites like NewFarmSupply.com.

1. Tools & Technology for
Permaculture Homesteads

2. share with #maxpermo

3. Know Your Climate
Context & Analogue

4. Transition

5. Globalized
Robust
Controlled
Declining Economy

6. Localized
Resilient
Open Source
Ascending Economy

7. What’s Critical?

8. What’s Everyone Need?
HOME STORECOOP
HARVESTPICKUP TRAVEL

9. Critical Tools
• Cookstove
• Axe
• A Great Bike
• Skills - No Substitute for
Experience

10. Biolite or
Portable
Rocket
Cookstove
$130 or less
Local fuel sources
charge electronic
devices rain or shine

12. Wood Cookstove
& Hot Water
photos: Ben Falk/Whole Systems Design

13. Axe
BaileysOnline.com

14. A Really Good Bike

15. #maxpermo bike
magneto hub
magneto-powered
LED headlight
internal gear
Rohloff rear hub
racks
frame bag
USB port

16. Priorities
What’s your car worth?
$3,600
20 MPG
$3,800
∞ MPG

17. glide the clyde
Quality
What do you NEED?

18. Tony's Trailers

22. thelazyrando

24. Cycle Farm

25. Cycle Farm

26. Rising Pheasant Farm
Swiss Army
Farm Bike Plans
Farm Hack / Green Tractor Farm
FarmHack.net/Tools
http://www.atomiczombie.com/
http://www.instructables.com/

27. Housing

28. Evaluate Your Vernacular

29. Sometimes The
Vernacular Sucks
Retrofit when able

30. Get Minimum Solar

31. Food Processing & Preservation

32. Solar Dehydrator

34. Dried Mushrooms

35. Dried EVERYTHING

37. Food Processing & Preservation

38. 25lbs/hour $20/hr+ $$$$+???
Find Process Efficiencies

39. Permaculture Machinery
Parts Fabrication Automation+ =

40. FarmHack.net/tools

41. Production Systems

42. Design is in the Details
ergonomics
quality
resilience

43. Tree Bar
$30-50 new
3,000 trees/day one person

44. Tree Planter
TOUGH TO LOSE MONEY ON THESE
$800-2,500 usedsearchtempest.com
borrow, rent, or buy and resell

45. Chainsaws
Stihl, Husqvarna, Jonsered
$500-800 new16-20” bar
spend $$$ on chaps, wedges, chain,
sharpening tools, helmet, safety gear

46. Austrian Scythe
$260 complete new
snath, blade,
stone, stoneholder
1 acre/day one person
www.onescytherevolution.com

47. Stack Functions:
Double Spear
Bale Fork
Pallet forks + hay fork in one
$600-800 new

48. 3 pt Rotary Hay Rake
$900-4,000 used
$2,500-5,500 new
ideally 3 pt mounted, NOT trailed
Kuhn GA 300 GM

49. Farmscale Mulching
Search it on YouTube

50. MAKE AN IMPACT!
Farmscale Permaculture Course
4 Days - October 1-4th, 2015
www.Versaland.com

51. NewFarmSupply.com
100 Chestnut Trees
for
$297

53. NewFarmSupply.com
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