Plans A, B & C are all in various stages of research and development:
Plan A – Stay in Vancouver – Plan A
- Continue to develop guerrilla and community gardens
- Create a non-profit to facilitate the creation of city sponsored community gardens
- Start an urban permaculture school to train low-income, disadvantaged, at risk populations alongside anyone interested in the subject
- Work with the city to create urban farms employing people who have graduated from the urban permaculture school
Plan B – Ecovillage in BC
- Looking at property in Lillooet with plenty of sun, long growing season and access to fresh water
- Work with city of Lillooet to create a methane digester facility for composting municipal food stuffs while generating electricity and fertilizer
- Purchase diesel vehicle and get a Plant Drive kit so I can run on used veggie oil, dino diesel and biodiesel
- Start building a huge garden & orchard – enough to be self-sufficient with a surplus to sell/trade
- Begin keeping livestock for meat and dairy
- Continue developing soap making skills
- Start a permaculture school within the next five years
- Continue to create micro-enterprise focused on relocalizing our economy
Plan C – Head for the Hills
- Retreat to Manitoulin Island – work with friends and family to build self-sufficient infrastructure there