Wood – chopping, stacking & drying
Earthy shit – The humble practice of composting

Composting our poo & wee is largely about self-responsibility. Our choice to use composting systems for our build was simple. In terms of the environment our choice to compost alleviates dependency on an ever increasing demand for council infrastructure, which still use archaic systems of wastewater management. That rely on…
Building a Roundhouse in New Zealand

Our roundhouse design is complete! Designed as an alternative solution to New Zealand code, although designed to code (the joy of bureaucracy) which took around 8 months, longer than anticipated. The adage to always allow extra time & money when building is certainly true, in our case delays were not…
Turn off the news & build a garden
A bounty of bees
Why a food forest?
Moving forward – with an “affordable home”

Finally, after what seemed like insurmountable valleys limiting our ability to move forward with the design stage of our home, we reached the peak. Working alongside an engineer and a pragmatic creative daughtsman thrilled to be designing an alternative solution. We are required to use a structural engineer and Geo-tech…
Challenges ahead
Building a home – more than a destination
Land ownership – a strange concept for first time land owners
nature is the place where the heart dwells, environment is the place of the mind.
- Earth Heart