With an outdoor shower and an area for washing up dishes outside, we haven’t had much of a need for indoor plumbing. With Winter approaching and a new kitchen sink awaiting, we needed a way to drain water from our tiny house and a grey water system was the easiest way to solve this. A […]
Category Archives: Eco Building
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Apr
Apr
In order for us to get on the farm full-time now we’ve taken some drastic measures. First of all, it’s a lot of gas driving an hour and 10 minutes each way from Saranac Lake to our little “broke down” farm in Willsboro. We’ve been doing long weekends of farm renovations by lodging at the Villa […]
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May
May
I have fond memories of lunchtime with my colleagues at work, especially my friend Winston when we would talk about green building ideas. Great conversations and great friends often go well together. He had some cutting edge concepts well-suited for his homeland of Fiji. He even started to make some 3D models. I can’t give […]
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Jan
Jan
I’ve talked a bit about building green with my initial eco-cabin ideas and this week I’ll be attending the “Building A Greener Adirondacks” Conference at the Wild Center in Tupper Lake, NY to get some more inspiration into what the key opinion leaders and professional builders are doing in and around the Park. About the […]
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May
May
All this talk about our farm land search was a little depressing, so in order to put forth some “positive thinking” I am going to devote this post to my eco homestead design. Previously I’ve taken two courses in eco home building, both at the Earthwood Building School in West Chazy, NY. One was focused on […]