It’s been an amazing year – rich, surprising and humbling by turns – and we have lots of stories to tell… next year. We will catch up on the progress of this incredible house project, so thanks for your patience. But for now, we’d just like to thank everyone who’s helped us get this far, whether humping hempcrete, plastering walls, oiling doors, giving us light and hot water, or sharing with us delicious meals and great conversations. Happy new year!
Wildflower time in the garden…
breaking this large, sometimes daunting process into small steps brings our focus to what we can do now to advance the project. it makes consistent progress easy. remembering to do that,…
simplicity is key.…
It’s been a bit quiet here on the blog partly because we’ve been so engrossed for a while in plastering the interior hempcrete walls with hemp lime plaster. We’re far from…
we often find ourselves rushing to get tasks done rather than taking our time to make sure we get the job done to the best of our abilities. really, how long…
Butterflies in our new garden. In Native American mythology, butterflies are a symbol of change and joy… photo: Chuck East…
The stud walls are going up! As we have quite a bit of hemp and lime left over from hempcreting the external walls, we’ve decided to go for a ‘stabilised’ hemp-filled…
“The snow has not yet left the earth, but spring is already asking to enter your heart.”…
The strangest winter we’ve ever experienced, the locals are saying, and it seems a fitting end to what has been a strange old year out there in the big wide world.…
