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    Hemp lime plastering

    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…

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    Butterflies

    Butterflies in our new garden. In Native American mythology, butterflies are a symbol of change and joy… photo: Chuck East…

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    Studs up

    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…

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    Spring

    “The snow has not yet left the earth, but spring is already asking to enter your heart.”…

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    Getting ready for winter

    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.…

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    A dream team

    Learning Korean, watching the Euros while eating cheese fondue, birthday celebrations, climbing sessions, jamming on the guitar, génépi-fuelled card games, hiking Mont Joly (twice, in Suzi’s case), ridiculously delicious curries, Hungarian Lecso, Polish…

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    This land

    So happy we waited five years and got lucky enough to be able to buy this beautiful piece of land. Digging on a much smaller scale than what was to follow,…