Channel: paul wheaton

Category: Science & Technology

Description: Paul sits back down with Kyle and Mark to continue talking about how to buy land, although Mark takes a while to show up so they spend the time talking about residual income streams. Whenever Paul brings up residual income streams he gets looked at like a snake oil salesman as people seem to default to thinking of get-rich-quick schemes whenever finances get brought up. Kyle, being a musician, gets the idea much better – he put out a bunch of music and every couple of months he gets $20 from the sales. Not much, but a start. Whilst Paul has a few hundred different things out that all bring in a little and it totals up to over $1k per month. Getting back on topic, both Paul and Sepp both advocate getting some slope, either for water retention or extending the growing season soil building in a cold climate. A cold climate is better for soil building due to the bacteria that make the soil being inactive during the winter and slower in general, so if you build a hugelkultur bed in a cool climate it’ll last 10-30 years, but only 1-2 years in a tropical climate. As for how much slope you want, a 45 degree would be a bit much simply because it’s steeper than most soils angle of repose (the maximum angle that it can be without collapsing) so it’ll be unstable. A terrace can be used to flatten the land, but the problem is that they create flat land at the cost of even steeper walls that need a strong retaining wall, lest the terrace just flow down the hill. 10 to 15 degrees is quite comfortable and can just about support a straight road up in winter time, although 10 or less is safer for roads. For other purposes, a range of slopes is good but if the land is mostly over 30 degrees, it’s probably not worth it. Thanks to my patreon peeps for pushing me into making videos again patreon.com/pwvids Dr. Hugh Gill Kultur Kyle Neath Mehron Kugler Kerry Rodgers Bill Crim Dolius Lisa Goodspeed Jocelyn Campbell jocelyncampbell.com Greg Martin Bill Erickson Vention Bartell Ashley Taylor G Cooper Kevin Perry Eric Tolbert Bryan Beck Paula Creevy Denzil crews danita neu Polly Jayne Smyth Ash Jackson My new book! Building a Better World in Your Backyard - instead of being angry at bad guys permies.com/bwb Better Wood Heat: DIY Rocket Mass Heaters 4-DVD set richsoil.com/wood-heat.jsp 177 hours of Permaculture Design Course and Appropriate Technology Course pdcvid.com Permaculture Playing Cards richsoil.com/cards.jsp World Domination Gardening 3-DVD set richsoil.com/wd-gardening.jsp Rocket Ovens DVD permies.com/ovens Permaculture Bootcamp permies.com/wiki/bootcamp Podcasts, daily-ish email, forums, come visit, workshops, affiliate programs, consulting, etc. permies.com/stuff