hobbit houses

Dreaming about the future is something I have much less time for lately, but is conversely all that much more important. After the main house is "done" (for now), and the treehouse and yurts are built, I really want to build a hobbit house into one of the south-facing hills -- perhaps the one just downhill from the treehouse site. This design, a cob/strawbale/turf-roof hybrid, is really nifty.

quote of the day

Irene Trivas records what seedlings she has planted at Frost Gardens in Fairlee while owner Bill “Frosty” Frost waters young plants in the greenhouse. No pesticides are used on the plants, so every two weeks they release 50,000 ladybugs to control pests in the greenhouse. “It’s a lot of them, you have to watch your coffee,” Frost said.