Quest Journal

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Write a book. What advice would you give your 25 year old self? I would give myself an emergency education in post-consumer praxis. This started as a blog post and now it’s 45,000 words. It’s on track to publish fall/winter 2023.

Spend $5,000 in a twelve-month period. Just to see what it’s like.

Learn the fundamentals of permaculture design.

Internalize Doing Easy.

Upcoming Quests

Workaway in Japan?

Plant/cultivate a drylands food forest. A la Geoff Lawton’s Greening the Desert projects.

Build a cold frame.

Build a bioshelter for fall/winter/spring crops, with integrated aquaculture.

Build a solar oven.

Build a solar dehydrator.

Completed Quests

Host EREfest September 8-10, 2023. I invited all my ERE friends over for a long weekend of cooperative self sufficiency.

Build a salvaged solar shade structure, September 2023.

Host [my friend] August 27 - September 22, 2023. A friend from my ERE mastermind group is came to live with me for a month. We built stuff, climbed, played in the mountains, and discussed how to build a loosely coupled web of goals with superordinate telos. I hope for this to be a trend-setting pattern.

Bikepack to Bend, OR, May 18 - June 23, 2023.