Finally rain has started to fall heavily again after almost two months of unusually hot sunny days. And it's…

After a fabulous festive Christmas in Frutillar, with sophistiocated food galore, we are back home and loving the…

Soon we'll be building a cabin for our guests, with friends, Megan and Happy. It will be a hybrid earthbag foundation, wood framed structure in a secluded part of our garden, invisible from the road and invisible from us. Should take around a month to get it to a condition good enough for them to move in while they search the region for a piece of land.

Happy's a carpenter with plenty of back woods experience, so I'm looking forward to what we'll come up and included in the…

It's Xmas and we're taking a break from digging to celebrate with friends in Frutillar, in the lake district of Chile. I am reminded of a tree planting and interview with Santa Claus in Hong Kong 2007. In the interview he spoke of the state of the planet and the plight of elves and…

The north side of our garden is now entirely walled in with 100 meters of turf and a gate which is wide enough to…

Silvie is now on her great walking journey from north to south end of Patagonia. She stopped at La Junta for a few days, help building turf wall at Paul & Konomi's place. Now she is walking on the road again toward the south end of Patagonia. Keep on having happy walking Silvie!…

There is no separation between us, our house, our garden, our land, the surrounding nature and view now we connecting…

Today is Konomi's birthday and we're celebrating with the arrival of Pepper, a four month old Ewe.…

Ten days ago we got the opportunity to raft down the Rio Palena, the river…