La Ancla ••• Ventura, California

somewhere between madmax and ecotopia is la ancla, an urban sustainability project in ventura, california's la avenida neighborhood. we have a 1/5 acre of land five minutes from the ocean, 3 cottages and an intense passion for laughter, nature, and living in harmony with each other and the earth. we believe it is possible to live well in a beautiful place with a small ecological footprint while not isolating ourselves from economic and cultural resources of the city.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Noticias para Enero/January News

January has been a really good month. T and T and Burrito re-did the back cottage into a living art space complete with their amazing art. The nasty remnants of 40 years of renters has largely been scraped, hauled or painted away and it is looking good.

The front house went through the last of its termite restoration work with the last layer of varnish making the floors look decent. T ripped up another one of our concrete walkways and planted herself a bunch of brassica magic!

We got a couple new orange and lemon trees in and are hoping like mad they survive the occasional frosty morning we have!

Some projects we have on tap for the next couple weeks:

• Rip the rest of the North concrete walkway out and install a chicken tractor over it.
• Design and build some sort of storage shed out of all the materials we salvaged from the houses
• Transform cottage #3 "The Cell" into a more liveable space... possibly with living roof! (or a chayote/passion fruit equivalent!)... and windows installed. And a solar panel or three?

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