Garden Wellness Studio

OUTDOOR GARDEN

Vertical Farming
French Intensive, BioDynamic, BioIntensive
Bio-Integrated, ie Perma-Aqua-Bio-Culture
Aquaculture - fish

Duck Eggs
Dogs
Rabbits

Compost Pile
Worms
Gas Collection
Mushrooms
Mycelium

Noal farm

French Intensive Garden

French Garden

vert farm

vertical farm

Herb Garden

COMMERCIAL KITCHEN

Cooking
Preserves
fermented foods
Cheese, butter
Vegetarian cooking, Ethnic foods
Smoothies
Coffee
Baking, bread, muffins
- grains, Flour


- Salted meats
- Smoked Fish
good cookware, cast iron, stainless steel
Hand-press Orange Juicer
Cold Press Juicer
Pressure Cooker
Outdoor BBQ grill
Food Processor
Steel Vats
Blue Plastic Barrels
Espresso Machine, to make extracts
Pizza Oven
Toaster
Cast Iron Griddle
white 5 gallon buckets, lids

Sealed containers, store rice, garbanzo beans, pasta, granola.


Fruit Preserves
mason jars
charcoal, grill
distillation equipment
large blue barrels, stainless steel vats


Goat Milk, Cheese, Butter
Cow's Milk, Cheese Butter

Skin-care Products
Herbs
Vegetables
Fruit Skins
Skin creams
Dried herbs
Essential oils

Ganja Products
Ganja Cookies
Whole-grain bread, dense, old-fashioned Japanese/German/French
Oatmeal raisin, nut muffins

Water purification filters
Distillation Equipment
Dehydrator
Gas Pizza Oven to bake powders for safety

FERMENT

Supercheng
Cleansers
Pest Control
Skin-Care
Vinegar
Pickles
Saurkraut
Kimchi

WELLNESS SPA

Sauna, Hot Tub, Mud Baths
Isolation Tank
Face, hand, and foot Massage

Facials

SKIN-CARE PRODUCTS

Ganja, herbs
Clays
Oils
Masks
Cleansers
Scrubs
Rehydrators
Restorers, Rejuvenators
Whiteners

WORKSHOP

Woodshop
Metal Working
Glass
Bathrooms
Natural building methods
Salvaged materials
Rammed earth
mixed earth and cement
Bathrooms

TOOLS
Truck Tools
Farm Tools
sharpening stone
shovels
string, fishing line
thread
tin snips, wire cutters
vise grips
washers, nuts and bolts
WD40 spray
good screwdrivers
hacksaw blades
green or black netting, blocks sun for crops
hand axe
hand saw
heavyduty knife, hunting knife
hoes
hose clamps
plastic tarps
duct tape
larger crescent wrench
lighters
lubricating oil
matches, convex lens
metal rod, or crowbar
nails, screws
pick, awl
pieces of hose, belts, rubber
plastic safety glasses

EQUIPMENT, MACHINERY
safe-to-operate machinery to produce useful products
small backhoe, good size to dig foundations
old, used tractor
Cement Mixer Interlocking-Block Maker
Shuttle Van or Small Bus
Flat Trailer, Hand-winch, Salvage

ARTS & CRAFTS
Natural Soap
Scented Candles
Pillows
Miniatures, doll-houses
Teddy bears wearing fashion, and accessories
Print Making
Wall Hangings
Potting Wheel

RENTING

Rent a place with large roof-area that accommodates a few people in the sunny mornings, and nice windows, to work with natural lighting. Large rooms with wood flooring for video, can install wall mirrors. good to practice fitness, yoga, singing, counseling groups. If rent home with land, or townhouse with roof or large balcony, can hang double-size mosquito netting, or build simple structure and screen it. Parking, with a gate. English-speaking university students. Further, if unfortunate circumstances arise, would be trapped in the location, or like our land, own but not be living there.

Consider renting a quiet place, and spending time in the forest or visiting large temples. Bring mosquito nets and string if going to forests, or must keep walking. Beware prior or current mining or factories, as there may be polluted groundwater, noise, smells, or air pollution.

Expect the first days and even weeks, months to be lonely, and a challenge. Always compare with homeless (which is also lonely), and with no money. Anticipate the difficulties of starting fresh, to meet the requirements of successful transition. Treat ourselves to good food, and easy living at first. Balance the loss of routine, ease, and familiarity, with the potential for improvement.

Locate at the end of the road, against a hill. If living too far out, I’m potentially exposed as a target. Choose a community with forest temples around, surrounded by nature, perhaps hills or mountains that discourage development. Sole access, no road to rear property or shared. No undeveloped land nearby that a factory or pig farm might come in. Quiet, low-crime, food-producing area with clean water and air. Important to me to have community and girls, even if not dating, as just seeing and being around their energy is vitalizing.

Must use the third eye and second sight to see the magic in the surroundings. Meditate and be still. Drink in the message through your being. Dream the answer. Study the achievers and follow their example, in order to recognize the right place, even while looking at it or being there. Tibetans and native peoples have a tradition of appraising events by the signs that accompany them.

Long-term value of locating near a Wat with hills around. If the Wat has a large hill next to it, can hike early in the morning for sunrise, or mountain bike, as well as ride dirt-bike trails in afternoon. Great addition to my environment, and attractive for the center. Can put up small structure at top, or carry backpack with speaker, mosquito net, water, food, light weight down blanket. Note mosquitos in forested areas. Even during virus, can get outside in larger temple or forest if walking, sit practicing guitar, or bring mosquito net to take a nap outside, tucking edges beneath my mats. Mushrooms growing wild in forests. Less bother of insects walking or running, or riding a bicycle or motorcycle.

Consider the location of forest temples, for even if not able to study directly with the monks, their presence will cause emanations due to their practice. Located in an auspicious location, the natural surroundings will amplify the effect.

Easier to build and work in the cold, rather than the heat. Don't fear the cold winters in the mountains. It is exactly the difficulties and elevation, isolation, that keep the areas free from over-development, and attract nature-loving people. Don't judge the cold while having nothing to do, currently. Once started, there will be plenty of work to do, keeping warm through activity and yogic breathing practice. Also, can build a small fire in the mornings and evenings, staring into the flames, perhaps practicing singing.

Note that all places on earth are only projections of your senses. Regain your sense of place, and know that safety, warmth, affection, bliss and other factors determine a good spot to sit, and sleep through the night. Resting more deeply, that you may not be as tired as you imagine yourself to be. Perhaps you are just tired of ignorance, and meagre association. Is it a home you seek, or a place to exist? Beware that your land purchase doesn't end up owning you, just as the land that you've already acquired competes for your time, depth of concentration, and peace of mind.

Rather than build, if open after lockdown, consider spending days in old, larger wats, as these magnificent spaces would be virtually impossible to recreate. Sitting silently, working on posture, breathing, and mind-control. India and other places also, much easier to visit than to imagine carving stone to make elaborate temples, rooms, and sculptures.

Lucky to find monks that wish to sit quietly and not get overly caught up in mundane affairs. You can't both have companions as well as sit quietly alone, focusing on awareness.

Consider creating temporary but well-sealed shelters, built out of thick plastic tarps with heavy zippers, mosquito netting. Can also make assembled snap-together structures, that provide protection from insects, and squat in less-developed places until asked to leave.

OLD WAYS, 1800s (THEME)

Focus on the 'old ways,' as if the center were set 150 years ago, in fashion, machinery, buildings, tools, utensils, and kitchen. No diesel, no electricity, no running water, no heathcare, need animals and bicycle, also passive solar, steam. Use examples of how people survived the great depression on little money, and how they live in post-war Yugoslavia, post-crash Venezuela.

Immediate grid down, no electricity, no water pumps (install solar), warmth, food supply, remote farming community, next 10 years.

Start learning ‘old ways’ of doing things. many examples of how people survived the depression on little money. also, research ways to create income streams both online, as well as in the community. Herbal medicines, massage, tutoring, buy tractor, other tools, machinery to make products and food, like espresso machine, dehydrator, fermentation barrels, make soap, candles, etc.

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION (THEME)

Recycling
Repurposing
Salvaged materials
Home-made everything
Water Purification
Water Recycling
Water Energization
Water Ionization
Soil Restoration
Composting, Biogas
Worms
Biointensive, vertical gardening
Hydroponics
No pesticides, no hormones
Organic Fertilizer
Mycelium

FOREST PRODUCTS

Forest products, herbs, bark, plant matter, mulch, bamboo, saplings, mushrooms, can hire native people. not in reserved areas.

Native herbs locally, sourcing seeds or shoots
Wildcrafting and Foraging
Survival Skills, dependence on supply chains, electricity, and technology

ROCK HUNTING

Rockhound clubs, hire locals to tour, look at caves and rivers, exposed cliff faces. look for rock quarries or backhoes digging rock. prospecting for colored stones, have girl sell at markets directly, get exercise and are outdoors at a minimum.

Semi-precious stones and colored crystal, in correct places. not the most rare stones, but easier to find in bulk. good outdoor business. must learn how to locate, where to sell either online, or relationships with rock shops or dealers. ie, agate, amethyst, quartz, jade, beryllium?

MAE SOT

Overseas Irrawaddy Association website, phone in Mae Sot. Phoe Thingyan says his group sends 1,000 boxes of rice each morning and evening to the refugees, but that he has had to ask the Thai military for permission to accept donations.

police cards – unofficial documents that allow displaced people to avoid arrest or deportation -- are purchased through middlemen for an average cost of 350 Thai baht/month. Cards are marked with a photo or symbol showing that the holders have paid.

Amnart Nantaharn, chairman of the Tak Special Economic Development Zone Office

BUILDING PLAN