It is very hot. And quite hard to reason, plan or focus. For those of us in very hot climes, without air conditioning or the like, it is time to pace ourselves and to limit what we try to get done in a

Today was pretty rainy, very grey and quite chilly. And so was yesterday But it was worth it, just for the view alone We woke up early and decided that - instead of sitting inside, around the stove, burning

My family has almost 20 wooded acres in the Hudson Valley of New York, and I can’t shake this idea: a collection of off-grid cabins, each one built with natural materials. Think cob, strawbale, stone,

For years and years Jona and I have been dreaming of building our own house with our own hands. About two years ago we got the chance to make our dream a reality. And while this experience has been very

About six months ago we began building a multi-functional building on our land. We needed a structure to hold the water tank as well as future solar panels. In an effort to stack as many functions as possible

Hello nature lovers these happy!!! This 2025 started our activity in the hand of Community V DAO with the Regen Meeting Cycle ♻️ of @vida.verde 🍃 with the Bio Filtros💧 Workshop. Last Saturday, January

This holiday season I came across some opposing attitudes about ecological living. Namely a friend who is strongly against interacting with the forest for fear of destroying it.

Let's do a little make believe post on this dream I have of building a small community of homesteaders living off the land focused on creativity and living off the land. This is mostly to help me visualize

Natural building is going through a major revolution. Techniques from past and present are collaborating in some spectacular designs. And in this video I have humbly presented a look at what we have been

Another offering from the digital pages of my Natural Building Diary. This is a place where I document the steps we are taking to build our future home with mostly recycled materials and those we are

Humans have made homes out of clay, sand, and straw since pre-history. Now we are living in a renaissance of earthen homes. It is an exciting time when modern and historic building techniques ...

When I was very young I thought that humans didn't really need fences on property lines. I hoped that everyone could contain their aggressive pets, respect each other's space, and talk it out...

So much is shifting at the moment. Bad news has moved us closer to realizing our goals. A loss of one creature has opened the scene for the return of others. The infrastructure we have worked hard to create

Before gas-fed machines, humans of the past had to make do with natural technologies and the techniques passed down to them from their elders. Now we have access to informational videos and all sorts of

Hi garden lovers!🍂🍁 How are you going? It is being a long time since The Promised Land had internet connection... We are back with many insights of what has been happening around here. Last time we were

Hi diy lovers, In the Promised Land, family, friends and volunteers start to come in summer time, giving so much life to the land and helping us around. As we compost the manure, we decided to create a

Hello dear Hivers! Today I'm sharing our experience of building raised beds with dry stone walls. This is our first (almost) spring on our property, the Maha Mahalla on @thepromisedland. We aim to produce

Halo to all you wandering souls, today I bring you my latest attempt at a rocket stove. It's not quite there yet but I consider a huge improvement from the last one. The problem with YouTube tutorials

Today I tried out my new bought chimney cleaner, which I requested at the shop for the measure of my chimney. It seems though, that you have to ask for a smaller one than the actual size, because this

Willow is a great tree to have where you live. It provides infinite amounts of material that can be used for construction, biomass, or even weaving baskets. The problem is that if left alone, it is very