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Building With Mud

Heavy Autumn rains made progress difficult for the ecovillage pioneers in Pembrokeshire, but they still built two beautiful reciprocal frame roundhouses. Here's a film about their good spirits.

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Building an EcoVillage in Wales

Months on from being granted planning permission in 2009, the four of the Lammas families were living on site, with the other 5 families rounding up their affairs and getting ready to move. The trackways and water networks were under construction and some of the families begun building. The autumn weather was kind and whilst the weather turned colder, activity on the land began to warm up. Lammas is starting to take shape. Filmed by www.livinginthefuture.org

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Living in the Future, Ecovillage PIoneers, episode 14

Paul Wimbush speaks to Cindy Harris from The Design Commission for Wales about sustainable building and why they support the Lammas Ecovillage Project. Living in the Future video series from Undercurrents highlights how people have come together to build their own homes, grow their own food, and create lively and sustainable communities. We will post one episode a week. To support the film project see www.livinginthefuture.org

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Lammas Forest Gardening Weekend at Middlewood

July 30th and August 1st
 

This is the final in a series of four forest gardening weekends that we have organised over the last year at Middlewood Permaculture Trust on Slack Bottom Farm near Lancaster. We have had over 70 people in the garden over the previous weekends, and you are invited to come along too, and lend a helping hand in the forest garden, gain skills and knowledge, and celebrate the special time known in the ancient pagan calanders as the Lammas (or Lughnasadh) 'fire festival'.

Last summer a group of us hatched a plan to open up the forest garden, and bring about fresh energy and change. It was agreed that we would organise a series of four weekends, to co-incide with the pagan festivals: Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, and Lughnasadh. As a result, a hardy group assembled for Samhain (Halloween) last year, and set about opening up the forest garden, making it accessible, and building a large fire pit, around which we drummed and danced under the full moon ... until the wind blew up and the rains came in!

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