You can hear birds sing and flutter around in the garden. I sit at our large hard wood kitchen table in the cool shade of our porch as I type these words. It is 07.30 in the morning and the first moment I give myself to take a breath and let my thoughts go over …
Yeah, the roof is on. Talking about milestones. The past months have been nerve breaking, every time a clouds started packing over our heads we covered the walls with plastic. Sometimes the plastic did more damage than good,because it concentrated all the rainwater in wall eroding streams. That is all over now. The roof is …
After a couple of very turbulent weeks in Bolivia we have continued our build. This pic is from the Hyperadobe walls in the making. A phase we are almost finishing now. Let me look up a more recent picture. 1 sec…. The day to day hassle and organization around the build has absorbed most of …
A lot has happened between the digging of the first trenches, and were we are today. Halfway the build of the first module in Las Palmas del Este. The work has been on a hold due to unforeseen circumstances, but now we are back to it since a week or two. Here, on this site …
Normally I would have started a website first, and later on perhaps create a Facebook page. Things have changed. For Termitero I created the Facebook page first to launch our idea and organise a workshop. It is called Termitero.Permacultura and now also has its group attached to it. The Facebook page is all in Spanish. …
In two occasions I have installed or helped install barbed wire. That does not make me an expert. Not at all. Nevertheless, I think I might be able to share some insights, tips, and tricks if you want to do it yourself. When to use barbed wire? When cattle are involved. It does not help …
Last week I was determined to write about ground works. Leveling the area and so on, but I realized the water connection was in fact the first milestone. Now I remember there was a lot more going on. So, we will see when I get to the ground works. After the water was connected, and …
This is the preparatory phase before the foundation is dug. The work site has to be prepared before the works can get started. In theory, all the paperwork is done already. Not in our case, but were are just starting and it is Bolivia so thing go a little different here sometimes. When I write …