So have been giving some thought to what would be needed for creating a commuity... 1) housing of some sort ( yurt, tipi, log cabin, house, etc 2) Greenhouse ( to grow plants etc) 3) Recreation Hall 4) Barn ( for those of you who would want animals) 5) Cold Storage ( for keeping veggies in the winter) 6) Work shop ( for communities who are having home based businesses) Are they any other ideas?
if you are planning on being there year round as i can see by your cold storage ,you will have to plan on your lodgings .especially for the long winter months.is wood available to heat it?if not do you have an alternative to heat with and can you pay for it ...electricity?? because in winter the daylight doesn't last very long ..usually dark by 430........you will need some sort of lighting .......another thing is ,that if you build a workshop,build 2 or at least build a seperation because if someone likes to do woodworking and another is doing welding or metal cutting ,etc ..the two don't mix
You just need the minimum accommodation sorted out first... all the other stuff can come later. Cold storage could be as simple as a lean-to onto any dwelling. For me, the first non-habitation structure would be a workshop but that's only because I'm an engineering type person rather than farming. To be entirely self sufficient in the food department seems to be a much bigger undertaking, and certainly you would need more than just a handful of animals and a greenhouse - therefore this would come last. A communal recreation hall can be implemented by everybody simply piling into a single dwelling or just going outside.
