The Dacha Project Blog

It looks as if I will be robbed of the most exciting time of the spring, Ithaca and surrounded area’s of upstate New York get ‘VERY’ few tornados. Have a look-see! ‘joe

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After 4 hours spent surrounded by the smell of french fries in the Veggie Turbo Diesel (Joe’s Veggie grease car) we piled out into a sunny spot where an overgrown shale driveway ended and our imaginations began. Joe and I had been eating Family Dollar spaghetti and sauce for 2,2oo miles the week before, hunting [...]

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Tomorrow is a monumental event. Thus far our extensive, exhaustive and sometimes circus-like search for land has produced little in the way of results. However, Ithaca seems to be beckoning us like a siren calling through the misty seas. A call so strong even munchkins have flown in planes and business executives from Manhattan have [...]

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So the Dacha still wants to be up north, but maybe a wee bit less north, since the growing season starts in June up in the ‘dacks. A new possibility, inspired by my reading of a book on Eco Village at Ithaca, the Dacha might want to be friends with the Eco Village. And here [...]

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In honor of St. Patrick, who always keeps green in style, I thought I’d post this article from The Seattle Times about diversifying the environmental movement: Overwhelmingly White, the green movement is reaching for the rainbow Although Paula Bock deals mostly with urban landscapes (specifically in the northwest) & we are currently fleeing for the [...]

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Back in the days of my teen angst-when I was just learning how to slam the bedroom door to achieve the most effective sound to destruction ratio (keep the volume high while retaining the basic integrity of the frame)-I used to write down all of my favorite quotes in a college-ruled notebook. Magazine cut-out letters [...]

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As much as this blog will document our smooth success along the road to building the Green Nettle Dacha, it will just as often descry the obstacles. Swinging both ways, this blog will hopefully become a useful reference tool for those looking for inspiration and advice when it comes to building their own off-the-grid home [...]

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above: The search for where to build brought us to many places this past summer. Big news from the six members of what was formerly known only as House Project: We have a name-Green Nettle Dacha, likely to be renamed at anytime to Green Flags, or The Something Garden. We’re not fickle, we simply know [...]

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