How To Make A Bamboo Polytunnel

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“We used a local renewable material, caña (like bamboo).

You could use anything long and bendy – we would  like to try it with hazel next time we are further north.

The only items we paid for are the plastic and string (pita string made from fibres of  the giant succulent Agave plant).

It took six days with four people working.

It’s a lovely material to work with, flexible, strong and  graceful.

The challenge throughout is to balance and work with the natural forces of the material…”

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In all that time an electric wire has never been connected to our house. We haven’t gotten or paid an electricity bill in over 40 years, but we have all the electricity we want. We grow everything we need, here, in our small backyard. We also have a small medicinal garden for tough times. Read More Here...


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