You don’t have to face the street
What do you do on a town block where the street faces northwest, the sun faces north and the views […]
How Geoff Lawton changed it all
A visit to Geoff Lawton & Zaytuna farm 24 years after getting into permaculture I had never met Geoff Lawton […]
Pascals stone & timber shed
Pascal is a unit of measurement and in this case the name of a French Canadian builder of the Bellingen/ […]
Indoors out modern Queenslander – Brisbane
This article was written by Nick and the owner. (Hint for selecting a designer – check they are on speaking […]
A hat roof
Nat had built many great houses for other people before finally getting a chance to build his own. He and […]
Pavillion style house with a view
What does a builder want from his own house? Les and Caroline, the owners of this house are the nicest […]
Grow your own house
The owners of this farm went organic and established a diversity of crops including annuals (garlic), tree crops (fruit, pecans), […]
The house that I built
In the mid 1990s the Bellinger Valley was quite a different place. Land was cheap and work was scarce. My […]
Crafted House
I like this house. It was owner designed and built with the help of my favourite builder, Al Gibbings of […]
Cool temperate passive solar barn house
The owners of this house are a lovely family of seven, who left their comfortable city living to farm under […]
Passive solar reno on a difficult site
The family of five saw potential in this house where most others didn’t. Facing due east on the edge of […]
Earth repair
“As the worlds problems become increasingly complex, the solutions remain embarrassingly simple” (Bill Mollison). Nowhere is this more evident […]