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Sunday, March 8, 2009

Archive I (I of IV) of Genesis Agenda work of the last 4 1/2 year up to date prior to starting this blog

Our Being

Consultation & People trainings for conscious community living

Work of 2005 to 2008 in a few words and images

  • Creating 'Liberated spaces': sustainably designed microsystems of living/creating/working spaces practicing local self sufficient cultural lifestyles . The Farm was managed as a dairy from the early 1950s until the end of the 80s when, reduced to half its original size it was sold by the two sons of the Yorkshireman owner, Nigel's grandfather, to a Dutch reclaimed land market garden farmer, whose children now manage it. 












GA is partnering Loup Blanc and Chameau Blanc, the making, design and restoration sole trader entreprise of Nigel Peel Cross 

Nigel and Toos (first from right) and a few of us from the Farm community in the Big apple and plum orchard in 2004 with the cottage in the background. 

We are redesigning a Tenant Farm Cottage in the High Weald of Mid-Sussex with a 1/4 acre garden into a sustainable living unit.





 The cottage and its dependent buildings around the courtyard are refitted
with wood heating, oil lanterns
 Good living for dogs and humans together and
a colorful decor and hand made or refurbished/recycled furniture.
The cottage is situated on a 20 acre Estate Farm now managed as an organic food/drink production market garden.

Paths, doors and fences define the flows of people/animal living. 

The garden contains an orchard of local varieties of apples/pears/cherries/soft fruits with meadow and forest garden, a patio, a physics and herbs/ornmental garden (with alpine rockery and ponds systems catching rain water being constructed as we write. The upper structure of a long planned sub tropical and mediterranean green house and propagation unit (rock floor built already below) will be built this autumn as we are sorry to have lost our agaves, phoenix palm and all 4 cordylines during this harsh winter 2008/9).
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The courtyard is bounded by a self built wood making and Defender Landrover restoring set of workshops and a refitted mobile home insulated with British wool, seat of a multimedia and learning studio, library and film projection. 
There is an outbuilding with tool shed and washing facilities (which will also be transformed soon. Then it will be solar and wind power to finish it)





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