I'm fond of "Rube Goldberg" contraptions that might be overly complex, but if its made from fairly free junk and "sort of works", why not?
I don't see any reason it wouldn't be possible to take something like the old farm high torque/low RPM water pumping windmills and have it wind-up a large watch-style coil spring. When it reaches a certain number of turns, it trips a latch, and the spring unwinds fast enough to generate some decent battery charging.
If an hours worth of sporatic wind gave you 5 minutes of charging, the cost effectiveness would be an equation concerning the free-junk/spare-time/patient-wife ratio.
If you have a site with a significant hill of perhaps 60 ft or more above a pond, it "might" be worth while to use wind to pump water up into a hilltop cistern. This would provide gravity feed water into the cabin, and on occasion, you could open a valve to downflow some of the water through a Pelton or Turgo thats right next to the pond.
One of the odd benefits of hydro is that if you have a significant amount of stored water at the head, you could throttle the flow to directly generate 110 or 220 VAC. And of course you could always charge a battery if desired.
Rocking horse pumps in oil fields can lift oil quite an elevation with an ocillating sucker pump (a check valve at the foot of the pipe, and a check valve built into the piston just above the foot).
Each wells depth varies, and if the counter weight on the other end of the rocker is well matched to the weight of the column of fluid being lifted, it doesn't take much energy to run it.
I worked at a landfill where wells were bored to draw out methane from decaying trash. it was burned to generate electricity for the city (~50% landfill gas, 50% municipal gas) The wells had moisture condense in them and clog the gas suction tubes, so sucker pumps were installed to keep the fluid low. Small copies of crude oil rocker pumps, but driven by air motors.
My job included occasionally replacing worn piston seals. Most wells were about 200 feet deep, so I know the idea would work. Of course with my luck, I'd dig a big pond, build this elaborate and complex system, and there wouldn't be enough wind to spin a VAWT, much less pump water.
Where I am now, I don't have a hill or a pond, and my grid electricity is cheap...
"Surely you must be kidding...
I'm not kidding, and stop calling me Shirley" -Airplane