Chip Taylor (Sunweaver) coordinating solar installation (May 05)

Photovoltaic installation to power our Homestead (May 05)

Sandra Jones (Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative) installing a pv system at D Acres (May 05)

Solar Shower (circa 1999)

A solar panel powers a remote treehouse dwelling (summer, 2003)

Solar panel powers irrigation pump in lower gardens

Seth from Sunweaver installing two types of domestic hot (Fall 2006)

Clivus composting toilets in educational facility

Amaranth

Anemone

Anise Hyssop

Aster

Astilbe

Bean flower

Beauty Bush

Blue Veronica

Borage

Buttercup

Calendula

Chamomile

Clary Sage

Chinese Balsams

Chinese Forget Me Not

Clematis

Cleome

Codonopsis

Comfrey flower

Culvers Root

Dianthus

Elder

Evening Primrose

Foxglove

Fung-Fen

Gentian Sage

Gladiola

Golden Lights Cosmos

Goldenrod

Great Blue Lobelia

Groundnut

Hawk weed

Indian Cucumber

Indian Pipe, Ghost Pipe

Iris

Jewel weed

Joepyeweed

Kiss Me Over The Garden Gate

Kiwi flower

Larkspur

Lavender

Lemon Mint

Lupine

Lupine

Marigold

Meadowsweet

Monkshood

Wild Mustard

Greek Mullein

Obedient plant

Parsnip

Potato flower

Radish flower

Raspberry flower

Cinnamon Rose

Sweet foliage rose

Rudbeckia

Scabiosa

Shinginku

Snapdragon

Snow Drop

Spilanthese

Stock

Sunflower

Spirea

Squash

St. John's Wort

Thistle

Tomatillo

Yarrow

Cerise Queen Yarrow

Valerian

Vibernum

Viola

Mexican Zinnia

First we dug a hole. Forms were placed into the hole. Rebar was laid to reinforce the concrete foundation (July 2004)

A solid stone foundation was built to protect the cob structure from the elements (July 2004)

The Cob Mix: Clay, Sand, Straw & Water (July 2004)

Mixing Cob (July 2004)

Making Adobe Bricks (July 2004)

Adobe Bricks Drying (July 2004)

Wall building was the most time-intensive part of the process (Aug 2004)

First Floor Complete! (Sept 2004)

Protected from the rain : New England weather makes a tarp necessary until a roof is installed over the cob (Sept 2004)

Building up the second floor (Oct 2004)

Cordwood Construction

Natural Plastering (Oct 2004)

Salvaged windows installed along East, North and West sides of Greenhouse (Nov 2004)

1st floor provides winter housing for goats, 2nd floor for chickens (Nov 2004)

2 salvaged woodstoves installed in greenhouse keep goats, chickens and plants warm in the winter (Nov 2004)

Nearly completed Greenhouse/Animal Husbandry building (Nov 2004)

Chickens move into their 2nd floor winter housing (Nov 2004)

A view from the top, a courageous chicken considers descending the ramp (Nov 2004)

Settling into the landscape (Nov 2004)

Another cob creation - the cob oven & cooktop (July 2004)

Oink (June 2004)

Striving for enlightenment (Oct 2004)

Born at D Acres (July 2004)

Clover (July 2004)

And Bella (July 2004)

August & Henri (Sept 2004)

Just one of the girls (July 2004)

crazy huge moth larvae caterpillar thing Micki found in the garden (Aug 2004)

Map of the Grounds (J.Payton, 2002)

Map of Grounds (J. Trought, 2005)

The Homestead houses Workshop, Artists' Studio, Community Kitchen, Office, Yoga Room, Library, Guest Quarters & Plant Nursery (Spring 2005)

Chicken house in lower garden (July 2004)

Mobile chicken tractor, on the go! (Oct 2004)

The first floor of the barn now serves as the D Acres farm store (Mar 2004)

Edith & Delbert Gray's Homestead (August 2005)

Outhouse (July 2005)

The Ox Hovel (July 2005)

The old Sugar Shack (Winter 2004)

Open Sided Storage Shed (July 2005)

The Creeker - the first treehouse built at D Acres (Sept 2004)

Sanctu Treehouse (July 2005)

Irie Treehouse (July 2004)

Crow's Nest Treehouse (July 2005)

Skinny Shack Treehouse (June 2005)

2003 learners & staff

Worktraders (Katherine & Phil) build an arbor beside the Homestead (2003)

2004 learners & staff

Learners plant trees in the orchard (May 2004)

mushroom Cultivation : Plugging shiitake spawn into logs (May 2004)

Limbing pine produces knot-free wood (Aug 2004)

Learning to bake organic snacks (Sept 2004)

Neighbor Eben Brown shares his knowledge of blacksmithing (Oct 2004)

Blacksmithing workshop Oct 2004

Intern Miriam Kessler leads a tour group around the farm (July 2004)

Camp group investigates the oxen (July 2004)

Restoration & Finishing Workshop, Sam Payton with Regina Burtt (April 2005)

Restoration & Finishing Workshop, Sam with George Morrill and Regina Burtt (April 2005)

Restoratino & Finishing Workshop, Sharetha Marsicovetere (April 2005)

Erecting the pole for the solar mount (Spring Crew, May 2005)

Ashland Public Rec (2006)

Boy Scouts (2006)

Local School Visitors (2006)

Proctor Academy (2006)

Permaculture Gathering (2006)

Permaculture Gathering Summer (2006)

Permaculture Gathering (2006)

Summer Crew (2006)

Waste veggie oil conversion workshop at KTM Auto

Alternative technology - solar hot water (winter, 2004)

Alternative technology - solar oven (winter, 2004)

Alternative technology - solar panels (winter, 2004)

Bamboo Construction (winter, 2004)

Sean and new friend working with bamboo (winter, 2004)

Alternative construction (winter, 2004)

Building in progress (winter, 2004)

Family dining (winter, 2004)

Family dining (winter, 2004)

Gardening at GAIA (winter, 2004)

Sustainable Living Course participants (winter, 2004)

Gustavo, co-founder GAIA Ecovillage (winter, 2004)