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Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture Courses 2013
Here is the current listing of Workshops/Courses at the Kinstone Academy of Applied Permaculture. Take a look and see if there is anything you would like to check out. This is a great venue with wonderful people, excellent food and beauty all around. Want more...
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German newspaper reviews Cordwood Construction
Over the past month, I had the privilege to be interviewed by a Romanian newspaperwoman (Nina May) about Cordwood Construction for the German newspaper Deutsche Zeitung. The article covers existing cordwood in Europe and North America and its potential uses in...
read moreCordwood Construction on the Black River
[If you wish to enlarge this article, press Ctrl and + at the same time and the screen will enlarge.] Ed and Julie McAllen built a gorgeous cordwood home near Galesville, Wisconsin by the Black River. They built it for $23,000 because they recycled, scrounged and...
read moreMinnesota Cordwood
Minnesota is home to not only strong Viking ancestors, Lake Wobegone and the Spam Museum (the canned meat), but also to a number of beautiful cordwood homes, cabins, cottages and saunas. Here is a cordwood sauna being built near Tower, Minnesota by Paul Harney. ...
read moreCordwood Sauna in Givens, West Virginia
Patrick sent some wonderful pictures of his family building a cordwood sauna in the hills of West Virginia. Since my wife's family is from WV, it piqued my interested. Then Patrick told me he was Finnish (I lived in Finland from 72 to 74) & I was hooked. Since he...
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Cordwood Cottage Garden Shed in Green Bay, Wisconsin
Tom & Mary Barchacky built this wonderfully attractive cordwood shed in the city of Green Bay, Wisconsin. It is a building that was an idea that morphed into a project that became a work of art. The building is made from all repurposed and recycled materials. The...
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Cordwood home Asheville, North Carolina
Maria & Toby built a beautiful cordwood home in the mountains near Asheville, NC. Maria blogs about her life as a homesteader, homeschooler, dye-maven, and grower of herbs. It is an excellent blog, filled with hope and life, and light. This cordwood home has a...
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Cordwood in Oklahoma is OK
Alan & Rebecca Barreca sent me the following pictures and information on their beautiful home in SE Oklahoma. For those who are wondering about cordwood in a hot, humid climate, this will help answer your questions. "We moved into our 16 sided cordwood home last Mar...
read moreCordwood Workshops May 18-19 & July 13-14, 2013 near Fountain City, Wisconsin
May 18-19 Workshop is FULL, please call (715-212-2870 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 715-212-2870 end_of_the_skype_highlighting) to be placed on the waiting list. There are still a few openings for July 13-14, but call to be sure. Would you like a...
read more2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here's an excerpt: 4,329 films were submitted to the 2012 Cannes Film Festival. This blog had 17,000 views in 2012. If each view were a film, this blog would power 4 Film Festivals...
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