by blythe_tait@bigpond.com | Oct 10, 2015 | Eco-living
Today, while working out in the orchard, I looked up towards our house and noticed a flash of pink on the roof. We have an earth roof. In an earth roof system, the roof is waterproofed, insulated, and then covered in soil and plants. There are many benefits, two of...
by blythe_tait@bigpond.com | Sep 14, 2015 | Eco-living
We live in a two-storey house…with no stairs. We have external access to the second storey. But who wants to go outside to get upstairs when it’s cold, rainy, dark (or anytime, really)? So, we have two ways to get upstairs inside the house: a temporary ladder and a...
by blythe_tait@bigpond.com | Sep 1, 2015 | Eco-living, pizza oven
It’s almost Peter’s birthday, and one of my gifts to him is a pallet of bricks. Does that seem a bit mean, giving a man a pile of bricks for his birthday? Well, these are no ordinary bricks. They are FIREbricks, or refractory bricks. And the plan is to create one...
by blythe_tait@bigpond.com | Aug 18, 2015 | duck pond, Eco-living
Out of all the tasks we have on our to-do list, you may wonder what made us decide to build a duckpond. Our chickens are fairly self-sufficient- their watering and feeding systems are sorted, and we can leave them when we go on holidays without needing anyone to...
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