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Monday, 16 January 2012
Transforming a windswept peninsula in Wales
Felin Uchaf from dobraidea on Vimeo.
Felin Uchaf - an Educational Centre for exploring ways of living and working in Creative Partnership, with each other and our Environment.
The Felin Uchaf Project grew out of a vision to create a place where people and the land on which they worked could nourish each other in body, soul and spirit and to found a Community Enterprise Centre based on a holistic understanding of our spiritual and physical needs.
At Michaelmas 2004 a small group of friends launched an appeal to purchase a neglected parcel of land in the heart of the Llyn Peninsula on Wales's westernmost shores bordering the Irish Sea, and set about manifesting that vision.
They began to transform the landscape through planting thousands of trees, reinstating hedgerows and wetland habitats and sculpting new eco buildings out of stone, earth, thatch and timber harvested locally.
On what used to be a bare, windswept site there are now a patchwork of small gardens and flowered meadows, a low green haze of young trees and the fruits of many people's labours:
paths that lead to secluded roundhouses,
to a subterranean hall where stories and songs and the arts are celebrated ,
to workspaces for the sharing of fine craftsmanship and
a community garden for people to cooperatively grow herbs and vegetables
in a sustainable, life enhancing way.
The Centre has become a valued resource for schools, community groups and volunteers, a place to reconnect with our land ourselves and each other....
Read more zt http://vimeo.com/24093655
Wednesday, 11 January 2012
"The Earth has music for those who listen."
-Shakespeare
-Shakespeare
Monday, 9 January 2012
Full Moon
http://www.farmersalmanac.com/full-moon-names/
Monday, 2 January 2012
Cob house
Here is a link to a person who is building a cob house - they have some posts about it http://sculptingearth.wordpress.com/category/environmentsustainability/the-evolving-dream/natural-building/
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