New Permaculture Project in Wales Needs People and Ideas

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 18 May 2011, 11:03

New project near Newcastle Emlyn in West Wales needs people and ideas. Due to an unexpected problem, it may not be possible to achieve the original plan, so alternative ideas are needed.

There's a house suitable for dividing or sharing, a field and woodland. Although in need of some TLC, there is potential to do some amazing things.

- Rooms available to rent, with space for your own garden and permaculture projects
- Buying a share of the site a possibility
- Help us try to achieve the original aim of creating an Eco-Hamlet (architects, surveyors, permaculture designers especially needed)
- Potential site for low-impact (One Planet) development
- Imaginative ideas needed for permaculture based uses for the site
- Come and help with land and building work, surveying and design
- Having rescued this site from a boring and unsustainable conventional future, lets create something special!

PM me to discuss.

biffvernon · Post by **biffvernon** » 18 May 2011, 11:43

Nice picture.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 18 May 2011, 12:00

biffvernon wrote:Nice picture.

Painted with my own fair hand (with a little help from Photoshop

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RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 18 May 2011, 18:26

JohnB wrote:
biffvernon wrote:Nice picture.
Painted with my own fair hand (with a little help from Photoshop ).

I love the 'oil painting' filter.

postie · Post by **postie** » 18 May 2011, 21:36

Is there a website?

What about a working holiday type thing for those who want to come and help out.

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 18 May 2011, 21:41

postie wrote:Is there a website?

Of course, but it doesn't tell you any more at the moment

http://www.eco-hamlets.org.uk/groups_projects.php?id=6

postie wrote:What about a working holiday type thing for those who want to come and help out.

Like this you mean?
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=18443

postie · Post by **postie** » 18 May 2011, 21:54

JohnB wrote: Like this you mean?
http://www.powerswitch.org.uk/forum/vie ... hp?t=18443

Yes.. like that

Thanks... I've been looking for somewhere in W.Wales for a break in August... neat!

BabyOyle · Post by **BabyOyle** » 18 May 2011, 23:40

Where do I sign up?

Seriously, this sounds just our kind of thing, being scouty type people!

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 19 May 2011, 00:00

BabyOyle wrote:Where do I sign up?

Seriously, this sounds just our kind of thing, being scouty type people!

To move in, or come and help?

Either send me a PM, or contact me through http://www.eco-hamlets.org.uk

Post by **clv101** » 19 May 2011, 15:57

I've been to John's site - huge potential, it's a really nice spot with a decent amount of woodland. Good luck!

featherstick · Post by **featherstick** » 19 May 2011, 17:31

I reckon you could advance-sell Bug-Out rights to worried powerswitchers. A range of prices, depending on whether one got rights to one room, water, land, a tent pitch, a caravan pitch, and also perhaps taking into account people's skills. So a telephone sanitizer with no other skills who wanted to live under the roof post-Fall might pay £10,000 now, whereas a vet who has veg-growing skills, a chainsaw, a range of seeds, and would be happy to build their own woodland bender-lodge might only pay £500. Make your own way there post-Fall, no guarantees, no refunds.

RevdTess · Post by **RevdTess** » 19 May 2011, 17:58

If convent life doesn't work out for me, I'll be on my way to John's plot also.

featherstick · Post by **featherstick** » 19 May 2011, 19:18

Hmm. I wonder where a Nun-on-the-run fits on my payment scale..

Hah. What do you call a nun on the run? Chaste!

JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 19 May 2011, 22:54

SisterClare wrote:If convent life doesn't work out for me, I'll be on my way to John's plot also.

The trees you helped plant are still alive

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JohnB · Post by **JohnB** » 19 May 2011, 23:21

featherstick wrote:I reckon you could advance-sell Bug-Out rights to worried powerswitchers. A range of prices, depending on whether one got rights to one room, water, land, a tent pitch, a caravan pitch, and also perhaps taking into account people's skills. So a telephone sanitizer with no other skills who wanted to live under the roof post-Fall might pay £10,000 now, whereas a vet who has veg-growing skills, a chainsaw, a range of seeds, and would be happy to build their own woodland bender-lodge might only pay £500. Make your own way there post-Fall, no guarantees, no refunds.

With a conventional house on site, those sort of prices don't work for making the site viable now, unless they are extra to people buying in who want to live here now. Then the available living space goes, and there wouldn't be enough land to grow food and fuel for everyone. So it's an option, but probably a limited one. It's an interesting challenge!

It's a shame I can't say more about the place in public, but the problem I mentioned in my first post means I have to be careful how much I say. Several PowerSwitchers do know the full story. Almost everyone who has visited sees the potential, and some rave about it. It's too much for me to achieve the potential of the place on my own, and it was never my plan that I would. I just want to live in a small, simple, energy efficient home, with some like-minded neighbours, and happen to be mad enough to try to achieve it!