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Our First Encounter with Eden
After several long months, the Welsh border has opened and this week, we were able to explore our land for the first time in any sort of detail. This was an event now so loaded with hope and expectation, I almost held back, preferring the sweetness of anticipation (albeit the bitter and frustrated kind). What would we find? Encampments of vagabonds? Fly-tipping, Hostile locals? All were possible. Instead we found enormous hope and potential coupled with some hopefully not too serious challenges.
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Power To The People
We have to start an ambitious project of this scale with some clear guiding principles. Otherwise, I expect we will lose our way in the face of conflicting options and budget priorities. What are our core values? These will inform design choices, materials selection and the lifestyle we create. Of course, there will be some compromise; we don’t have unlimited funds – or even limited but comfortable. We are scraping this together. So when I say our first guiding principle is to achieve energy self-sufficiency using only renewable sources while remaining stubbornly off-grid, my wallet contracts in my pocket with an involuntary spasm. This tech is very cool but it…
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And So It Begins…
The talk is over (or just revving up). This just got real for us. Found some land. A nice little 3 acre block with outline planning – half forest with a river. It’s on the edge of a Welsh village near the mid coast – not the cutesy Beddgelert with the coffee shops and steam railway kind of village. We’re talking no frills and a nationalist Welsh flag-flying neighbour next door. But that’s OK. We GOT THIS! When I say this, I don’t mean that we know in any way how this is going to play out. We have some ideals and core values: sustainability, as off-grid as possible and…
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Let’s Try A New Way
RECOVERING EDEN has always been a dream of ours but individually, our lives had some other lessons for us to learn first. I'm Terry, a 61 year old Australian. Mel is 55 and from Wiltshire. We both knew we wanted something different from the life of desperate conformity and relentless capital growth that has brought our existence on this planet to such a precipice. But we ploughed very different furrows until, finally, we were presented with the signs that can no longer be ignored...divorce, disenchantment, burn-out, health issues...a healthy dose of life-sabotage to promote a hand-brake turn onto a new path. Happily, our respective paths converged and our respective slices…
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It’s a Wonderful World Photo Gallery
It’s still a beautiful planet and it’s always worth reminding ourselves what we stand to lose. Any of the photos in the following gallery are available to purchase as high-resolution digital downloads or as framed prints. For details, please visit our photo store. 30% of all proceeds will go toward our tree planting fund. The remainder helps us to run this website and other RECOVER EDEN initiatives.
It's still possible