Sunday, 4 November 2007

Andrew's Trip to the Woodland Community















Stuart (or maybe Stewart) Woodland Community is a woodland community that grows its own food using permaculture techniques, generates its own power using renewable sources, and aims for sustainable living. There are 4 families there, each with their own house (not conventional houses), and there are other structures as well, which I will show in other pictures. They have iron cookware and get all of their heat from wood fueled fires.















This is a part of the food tent, where they do communal cooking and eating. Many of their structures include "benders" as structural members. Benders are flexible pieces of wood (from hazel, willow, or other naturally flexible types of trees). Almost all the structures include tarp like that shown here. This kind of tarp is a good insulator (for a tarp). It contains a layer of aluminum foil.















They have dogs. The dogs are cute and friendly.















This is one of the community structures. They make their buildings out of old forklift palettes, living trees, used plywood and other cheap but useful "used" material. They even take a page from the HDT and use used windows.















Here we see some rigid plastic sheets sticking out from under the tarp. This plastic is another common material used in their structures, usually as part of the roof.

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