ABOUT THE DACHA
The Dacha Project is a collective of 6 humans (some munchkin, some tall) who are in the process of creating an environmentally sustainable house & home together. We aspire to be off the grid & to use no propane or natural gas. Our blog is a work in progress (& a labor love), just like us.
In Russia a dacha (да́ча in russky) was a retreat home, to get away from urban areas and connect to nature. The richer crowd used them for social and cultural gatherings, while the poor squatted in them and grew their own food since the gov couldn’t supply enough. Many didn’t have indoor plumbing. Even today many people have dachas and enjoy growing things and sunbathing and sitting around the samovar drinking tea.
Our dacha is, of course, influenced by the present world around us, and the ideas we’ve picked up while alive in our own generation on the other side of the globe. Still, there is something of the Russian dacha in the feeling we bring to the project. It just fit.
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