AN AMAZING SMALL HOLDING PROJECT NEAR BRIDGE OF EARN

Here's a few photos I took at Chrissie's brilliant sustainable living/permaculture project the other day, a small holding near Bridge of Earn. (By the way, Chrissie is another woodworking student friend of mine). If ever there was an amazing demonstration of what's possible with a bit of observation and insight, lots of passion and energy, and access to land, this is it. The photos don't do Chrissie's work justice at all but I hope they'll give you a flavour of the place. 

Polytunnel, orchard/forest garden and tiny house in the background

ACCESS TO LAND

Chrissie and I chatted a lot about the issue of Access to Land. It's being discussed a lot at all levels here in Scotland and rightly so. We have a very strange situation in this country where a lot of our land is owned by just a handful of people, so where do we go from there if, like me, you feel that access to land is one of the keys to living sustainably? SEE PAGE: ACCESS TO LAND.

 YOU DON'T NECCESSARILY NEED TO OWN IT

Chrissie rents her small holding from a larger estate, they have a really good working relationship. In fact, she has been making such a great job of the area she currently manages that the estate are giving her the use of part of another field. Ruth and I have lived on two different projects in a work-in-lieu-of-rent arrangement with the farmers in both cases, more about all that here: THE LOG CABAVAN WAY

WOODWORK STUDENT BUILDS BRILLIANT SHELTER!

I always love to see how people can pick up a few new skills and not just run with them but go off at a gallop...

Charlotte did the first and second level woodwork courses with me and helped us to build the new shelter at Perth Community Farm. Now, with help from partner Chris, she's gone on to build her own brilliant outdoor woodworking space... Fantastic stuff!

Charlotte's garden workspace...

Woodwork at Inverquiech

 A few photos taken by a very interesting guy, Steve Smart, who visited Inverquiech recently and caught me, Mark and Mark doing some woodwork...

I've been started teaching woodcarving and shaping recently... lots of fun! and lots of interest in the course. Brilliant that all this hand tool stuff is so relevant.

 

HOW TO SHARPEN PLANE BLADES

 

INVERQUIECH TINY HOUSE - PART TWO

 A few more photos of progress so far - fortunately we got the roof sheets on before the really heavy rain...

BEFORE... we were donated a whole load of wall cladding from a neighbour's renovation work...