“The Natural Living School is an institute for individuals looking to make Natural Building, Permaculture or Natural Building Education into a career. Graduates can move on to a profession as a general contractor in natural building, a teacher, or a consultant.”
The Natural Building Collective
“The Natural building collective’s vision is to nurture the creation of a more sustainable built environment. It is a collaborative project dedicated to educating individuals and organizations about sustainable building’s potential to stimulate the senses, connect people to their environment and awaken our inherent creative potential.
No Work Chicken Gardening
I’ve been following Justin Rhodes on YouTube on his cross country tour of the best sustainable farms. In a recent episode he briefly shows how a thriving plot in his garden was made with just throwing food scraps to the chickens. The chickens scratched through it and turned the scraps into fertile compost. At this point you could plant seeds and starts of your choosing. Or you could do what Justin did and just wait and see what springs up naturally. In Justin’s garden they got peas, tomatoes, corn, and a bunch of squash and pumpkin all for free without tilling or planting.
Store Has Everything You Need To Live Without Electricity
Lehman’s is the biggest, best store of homesteading supplies that I know of. I’ve heard about this company for years and studied their website. In this video Justin Rhodes and the owner give us a personal tour of the store. It’s almost like a museum but more fun. As Justin says, “This is like a homesteaders paradise. Lehman’s Hardware Store of Ohio sells everything you’d need to live off grid.” Very entertaining tour watching the kids have fun and seeing all the interesting products.
Best Places to Live with Minimal Building Codes: Iowa
Email from a reader: “Within city limits there’s some zoning but in the country there’s nothing except getting well and septic approved. Plus, we’re 35 minutes to downtown Iowa City (birthplace of the Tiny Home movement) and 30 minutes to Grinnell, Iowa, home of Grinnell college. We feel like we hit the jackpot as far as building sites.
Young couple transforms old Loire cave into unique home/rental
“Alexis Lamoureux was looking for affordable housing for himself and his girlfriend Lotte van Riel when he rediscovered his great aunt’s old troglodyte home for sale by the local government in Amboise, France.