Spring - when a young man's fancies turn to thoughts of What The Hell to do with the garden. Plenty of things like cutting down dead trees, putting new things in. The Aloe Vera has been propagating like mad, it can definitely go into the dry area in the garden.
Fortunately, I have three weeks of annual leave saved up, so now is the time to take it, getting gardening done before everything explodes in a frenzy of growth. Sometime over the weeks, I will get the chance to find the recycling centre, see what there is in the way of adaptable equipment...
Have been looking into algae as a crop. There are a few different things various types can be used for - food, fuel... Spirulina is quite nutritious; Algin from some seaweeds can be fairly easily polymerised and coloured, so has uses as a fabric, as well as for a few industrial purposes.
Of course, I still need an off-sider, or a couple of people, to help me with gettting some of these projects off the ground... Many hands, as they say, make light work...