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    Another year

    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…

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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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    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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    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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    Hempcrete walls are going up!

    The hempcrete walls are going up! With some expert guidance and a fantastic group of volunteers, the ground floor walls are done and the second floor is underway. What started off as a…

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    What have we been smoking?

    Start of a long journey – on our way to a hemp workshop back in September 2014 So we’re going to build with hemp and lime and let’s just get one…