Planting Our Food Forest
Growing a food forest is a long term project, but you have to start somewhere, sometime, to reap what you sow for many years to come. We earmarked approximately 70%…
Our Shipping Container Home
Welcome to our shipping container home. Kick your flip-flops off, beware of the dog and come on in! It started with a dream! We followed through with modeling a concept…
Thinglish Strawberry Tower
Strawberry Tower Powered with Vermiculture What could be more Thinglish than eating strawberries and cream beneath the Christmas tree than well… growing your own fruit in a strawberry tower in…
Our Grey Water System – Recycle, Reuse & Grow Trees
We wanted to integrate a grey water system into the new house design right from the get go. We experimented with a simple solution to collect the grey water from…
The Shipping Containers Have Landed
I wake from a restless slumber for the umpteenth time to the sound heavy tropical rain. It hasn’t stopped persisting it down for over 24 hours and at first light…
Drilling a Water Well in Thailand
Water security was high on our agenda for our homestead, so drilling a water well to provide us with all of ‘God’s Home Brew‘ we will need in the future…
Construction in Thailand – Get Ya Boots On!
The Start of Construction – Groundworks Heading into the rainy season isn’t the best time to start construction in Thailand. Once the heaven’s open up and start to deluge the…
Permaculture, Design, Perception and Punk
If you asked me 5 years ago would I be interested in permaculture and gardening I would have laughed at you. I was living a very different life then. Not…
Types of Orchids in Thailand
Over 1000 Types of Orchids in Thailand There are estimated to be over 1000 types of orchids in Thailand (Gluay Mhai in Thai language). The beautiful, tropical flowers of the…
