kitchen lighting

at some point you will have to cook what you grow,
and it sure helps if you can use a kitchen, but what are you going to do when there is no electricity ?
if you are cooking with flame, you likely want to be doing it outside,
even putting your pot on top of 2 bricks with twigs for fuel under your pot works well enough, 
but all the prep work is way easier inside,

just think of making a pie in a survival situation,

and you have to make a mess

to get something great (16% BRIX by the way)

but doing it in the dark, or outside is less than ideal,

there are lots of solar lighting systems, and 12V LED bulbs that will make it cheep and efficient,
it is lots of work to set all that up to get to use your kitchen with the electric light you are use to,
it is likely worth it,
you will have batteries that can eventually wear out (yes you can set up systems that don't use batteries for day running only), and switches and other parts that could break, 

but there is an even easier solution for some houses,
it does not need to have moving parts to wear out,
have a proven track record of reliability,
it is called a window !

and works very well to light a kitchen,
sadly many buildings are now made to require electric light to be useful at all.
but if you can, get a kitchen with a window right over the sink so that you don't have to need lights to use it.

picture of finished pie will show up tomorrow...