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My pad in No Name
Key, Florida
| I'm thirty miles from Key West. We have a model community
here--strictly solar power and cistern water--and I've lead a successful
fight to keep the power grid out of our area. I have the biggest such
system on the island. It's probably also the largest in Florida and may be
the biggest in any house in the country. Off this system I run a central
electric air conditioner, two freezers (required for bait and the stone
crab I trap), and a fancy schmancy coffee maker that grinds the beans,
makes the brew, and spits out the waste. We're a sanctuary with several
endangered species--key deer and marsh rabbit--and have enjoyed a housing
moratorium. We intend to keep it that way to avoid the standard Florida
keys scenario of squalor and shoulder-to-shoulder neighbors. |
My covered fence garden -- initial construction
| This is what one has to do if he's going to garden in the
midst of a neighborhood population of deer, coons, and iguanas. We've
nearly a thousand deer, probably ten times as many coons, and the iguanas
are multiplying like rabbits. |
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