forest. I am now convinced that it is completerly practical in terms of the production of food stuffs. We then need to address the problem of living there. We really need to do much better in all that. The truth is that we have no problem building competant housing in the from of three story buildings on top of a working ground floor and cellar. we do it all the time in the form of apartment blocks. what we have not engineered into all thjis is the whole commu-nity, ,let alone the working whole community. Yet that is the original plan in european villages in the first instance. the only thing truly different is much cheaper housing costs. so imagine building a southward facing stack of housing with their own decks. The back wall is a continous cinder block type construct able to absorb and hold heat. this is all good by itself. now add a large shed construct along the back side ro allow animal retention and fodder storage as well and still well separated from living qua