Tomorrow, April and I head east. I’ll be attending a PDC at Whole Systems Research Farm in Vermont for 10 days. I’ve been eagerly anticipating this trip since the spring, and the timing couldn’t be better. This fall, we’ll be moving onto our new land and the next year will be full of visioning and designing and making plans for the land and the future. I suspect a lot of the new knowledge I come home with after the PDC will be very helpful for our design process.

Needless to say, don’t expect many (or any) updates in the next two weeks. However, once April and I return in September, we’re going full blast on getting the house on the land ready for living in this winter. It’s going to be a crazy time, because in October we’re headed west to attend the Natural Building Colloquium. We have a small window of opportunity to pack in as much work as we can. I hope we can get everything we want to accomplish done on time so we can return to a cozy house for winter!

We’re going to try some alternative / natural renovation techniques in the new house, including milk paint over the existing drywall, replacing a stud wall with a timber frame bent, using a natural linseed oil finish on the oak floor we’re putting in… all very good fodder for this blog, and hopefully interesting and relevant to you too. Look out for all that in September, ya?

Here are some bonus photos of our new land… just because. Be sure to view them large by clicking on them.