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observations on building a house – simplicity

Posted on May 5, 2018

simplicity is key.

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Not so long ago, having done our fair share of big city living around the world, we upped sticks and moved to a small village and resort in the French Alps. This is a blog about life in the mountains and trying to tread as lightly as we can on this beautiful, wild land. We're building a home with hempcrete and as many natural materials as we can and starting to grow our own food, mixing permaculture techniques and local wisdom. "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe." John Muir

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If you can keep your wildflowers when all around y If you can keep your wildflowers when all around you are strimming theirs to bits (sorry, Kipling)… Love the profusion of life in the garden at this time of year - the flowers, insects, butterflies and bees, lizards, slow worms, frogs… ok, love the slugs and snails a bit less but still
PV panels up and running at last! ☀️⚡️ No PV panels up and running at last! ☀️⚡️ Now glued to the app seeing how much we’re producing, even late on a cloudy day in November. #photovoltaic #hempcretehome #ecochalet
Still working hard on finishing the house and gard Still working hard on finishing the house and gardens with help from amazing individuals joining us from time to time through Workaway or word of mouth. But weekends are for getting out and up into the mountains. #workawayweekends #hempcretehome #ecochalet #naturalbuilding
“True action, good and radiant action, my friend “True action, good and radiant action, my friends, does not spring from activity, from busy bustling, it does not spring from industrious hammering. It grows in the solitude of the mountains, it grows on the summits where silence and danger dwell.” — Herman Hesse #mountains #autumn #hiking #workawayweekends
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