bamboo nursery
Of the 50 seeds that I bought three weeks, after two weeks already risen some. 22 delicate Pflänzlein of Guadua chacoensis, a native bamboo species in southern Brazil that grows up to 25 meters and a diameter has about 12 to 15 centimeters. The walls of this type are very thick, so that it can make a kind of slats and a laminate. It is also used to build houses and scaffolding. Until we reap
the first bamboo rods from the Pflänzlein, it continues for at least three years.
Matschweg to our little hut ...
must be respected at every step. Not only because of the risk of slipping. Alessandro was yesterday almost stepped on a snake. In view of the black thing that came up there on her, she just looked quickly but still the distance.
I was twelve years ago, I absolutely do not understand for what physics should be informed. We have made such great efforts, such as dissolving the surface tension of water with dish liquid. The fact that this works, we had children already established itself long before. In our experiments on the stream with the water hose, we had also found that the water at both ends will always be high, no matter how you hold the hose. Why should I learn it all over again in school where it should be there to teach me new things. I had declared quite indignant our physics teacher. Remember I had on Monday as Alessandro and Renato have set the levels for teaching. With a hose full of water, a pen and a few chosen branches.
Would not run out of sand, brick Renato had only on Monday of the remaining footings. So he had to wait until Tuesday and that we have brought some of the sand on the dirt road to the property. Then it was true quality. Framework explored and nailed down. Boards nailed to the walls turn. And you looked after all the little hut:
knew this Renato, where he is to leave gaps for the windows, I painted him a quick little sketch. On an empty toilet paper roll. I just had otherwise no other piece of paper to hand.
A bit different from what I wanted to, it has become our little hut. No matter. It works this way and is supposed to serve only as a transition. After the rainy season, we will try to harvest bamboo with a few neighbors, treat and dry, and then in the Brazilian winter, in the dry season, to build a real little house. The bamboo and clay. Until then we will come with 12 square deal.
So far I have always lived very extravagantly, in terms of the square. House or large apartment, it had to be. But I also know to cope with more than I've found four years ago when I have admitted only with a backpack and suitcase on a new life. I have the time less as a constraint, but rather as an enrichment. It's amazing how we humans can adapt to different situations and how that can even be fun. We must admit to just that. The next challenge is therefore called, come with limited space cope.
addition to the little hut but it is also to be a small barn and lots of outdoor area and a pleasant climate in which we are not so dependent on the Drinnensein, as is the case in Germany. So it's not so bad. The
with the water and power we have not really solved. Once we are in the little hut, we will also take in the attack. Until we have found a solution, there is a Gaslämplein, drinking water from the supermarket and showers with his mother, in the little town 10 km away.
"back to stone age", my ma has dubbed our first future of housing. I see it more as a "forward into the modern age". Away from conventional paths, free from ballast, to a nearly autonomous life and above all a more environmentally friendly life.
I know it's a privilege to be woken by birdsong, the order to be allowed to own land, tomatoes, potatoes, salad for their own use to grow and to tinker incidentally still own project. Our bamboo project.
"Dear barefoot to the beach, with the Mercedes to the office," I will now not be able to say. There will be called "Dear woken by birds singing, as frightened by the alarm clock "....