A house tour in September 2013

Special tours

House from the rear

Solar panels – for more photos of the house by Lottie visit her blog: http://aplaceaday.blogspot.com.au/2010/12/sustainable-house.html?showComment=1355121254803

House tours:  

No bookings  but places limited so you must email to confirm you will do the tour, please. NOTE: we start right on 1130 and finish right on 1230.

In one hour we: see and discuss the design and systems for: water, energy, recycled water, materials, mistakes, data, costs.

Let’s work on your project – if you’ld like to discuss your project on the tour and get design, product and costing suggestions then let us know by email in advance what your needs are and we’ll give you our best.  If you’ld like to get your hands on the bits and pieces of the water, recycled water and other systems – email us in advance and we’ll work that into your tour.

Urban farm working tours:

Bookings essential:  next Urban Farm Working Tour is DATE TO BE ADVISED.  Start 1130 am –  finish 100.  $15 tour fee.

To book email: tours@sustainablehouse.com.au

In the garden I will work with you and together for an hour and a half we will:

• build a leaky drain – you’ll learn how to dig, install leaky drain
• learn how to prune a fruit tree – how to espalier to make it fit a smaller space
• learn how to manage compost bins – how to keep cockroaches away, how to get compost out and then to spread it without harming fruit trees
• learn how to make a garden  self-nutrifying using a compost bin
• learn how to identify and harvest your own food – from ‘weeds’ that aren’t weeds to unusual edible native plants and to commonly used herbs such as rosemary, lemon grass and more

Working urban farm tours are $15 each and entitle you to $10 off the price of either or both my books, Sustainable House, or Sustainable Food.

Maximum of 15 people on this tour – we’ll be working with tools and our hands; email bookings essential, please.

Group bookings 10 or more people to maximum of 15 people are $10 each.

You can buy a book on the web if you wish, here:

UNSW Press.

Cameras welcome.

See you there, at the little house that could . . . and yours can, too . . .

OH:   you may wish to see the Plan to make a suburb sustainable that I made for Sydney Council; visit here and see it and stay in touch as the Council goes through the steps to make the Plan a binding policy:  

theplan.sustainablehouse.com…  

Michael

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