by Steve Byrne | Jul 19, 2017 | buildings, natural building
One of the last existing buildings that we took down here was the old wooden garage outside the cottage, and the time has come to replace it with another useful structure that will be used to store garden produce and tools. We want to build it on a tiny budget using reclaimed or local materials to create a natural looking structure that has minimal visual impact.
by Steve Byrne | Jul 8, 2015 | buildings, natural building
Another excellent video from Permaculture Magazine, produced by Permaculture People and narrated by Kevin McCloud. Many, many good reasons in there why natural building is the way to go. More info here
by Steve Byrne | Jun 12, 2015 | natural building
As you can see, the new room is coming on now, and we are on the final layers of clay paint, having gone through progressively finer mixes until we are now using just clay, fine sand, wheat paste, and occasionally some colouring – in this case tumeric....
by Steve Byrne | May 22, 2015 | buildings, natural building, off grid
After two weeks of hard graft, our latest wwoofers, Â Brodie and Molly are on their way, but what a difference they’ve made. We promised them building work, and our first task was fitting out battens and wood-wool board in the little cottage. Â Then they moved on...
by Steve Byrne | Jun 8, 2014 | crowdfunding, natural building
It was great to meet the bus full of people who arrived today with Tom Woolley, who has been running an introduction to eco building course. Some great stories, wonderful plans, and glimpses of old buildings that will hopefully be reawakened by the amazing enthusiasm...
by Steve Byrne | Apr 13, 2013 | composting toilets, low impact living, natural building, smallholding, the farm
Something that we’ve desperately needed since arriving is a decent outside composting loo, if only to save muddy hordes coming in and out of the house in the depths of winter. We inherited an old tin hut of an outside loo, that had the particularly...
