What a summer

What a summer

by | Sep 24, 2015 | off grid

As we come to Mabon –  the Autumn equinox, our busy season draws to a close, and the place has quietened down as our band of volunteers head off, and we host the last events before we take a break. Last weekend’s course – ‘Finding You – A...
Solid foundations

Solid foundations

by | Jul 8, 2015 | buildings, smallholding

    Two years ago we built our little stone circle at midsummer. Our home is built from the granite that it sits upon, and the stones are a connection to the mountains they look to, as well as a reflection of the place in which we live. The stones are all...

Our intrepid visitor

by | Nov 29, 2012 | volunteering

Although it has been a quiet week on the blog, here on the farm it’s been all go. Our intrepid WWOOF volunteer Bettina has arrived from Austria, hitch hiking all the way – at one point on a tractor. A terrifyingly long list of things to do exists, and...

Building with waste

by | May 1, 2012 | buildings

ThisTED talk by Dan Philips is fantastic. In it he discusses why consumers, the building industry, and society at large need to break out of the comfortable patterns that lead to massive waste, and how he makes use of that waste to create unusual, and highly personal...

Cob and Cordwood

by | Oct 18, 2011 | buildings

Another extraordinarily wet volunteer day on Monday, but undaunted, the team made a start on the cob and cordwood wall at the front of the roundhouse. In the morning we learned how to cut wine bottles in half, using a glass cutter and hot and cold water, and then...

Our first reciprocal frame roof!

by | Oct 10, 2011 | buildings

Well I never thought we’d do this as quickly, but today the roof frame went on with surprisingly little fuss.  In the morning we completed the henges and finished the wallplate – below and had a practice run with the reciprocal frame at ground level so...