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We’re still alive!

Hi regular readers and thanks for stopping by!

Yes Langi Billin is still going, but we’ve been a little busy. Currently we are finishing the house and about 2/3 of the way through building a 72 metre long and 21 metre wide, netted food forest. We’ll put up pics and designs when we get a bit of time, we’re pretty much exhausted all the time currently, so the blog has taken a back seat for a bit.

Also we have some more info to post for you on off grid hot water,  smart farm open source monitoring, our notes on soil carbon and mycelium from a session with the brilliant Walter Jehne of Regenerate Earth and some stuff on Johnson-Su bioreactors for fungal compost.

Back soon – stay well everyone!

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An eerie day at Langi Billin

This was what is was like the whole day today. 10 Km up the road it was brilliant sunshine!

So we have a 10,000L fire tank now next to the shed and we’ve begun lining out and insulating the kitchen side of the shed- with lots of help! The shed already has a composite EPS and foil insulation on the walls and roof that should provide about R1.2 on it’s own. However we are intending to be spending quite a bit of time in the commercial kitchen so we’ve added R2.5 Rockwool and lined the walls with Hardiboard which we will tile over.

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