Update: Mid-year 2011

Well a long whole year went by, and finally an update! Html5 friendly - makes the site more enjoyable for all... Yes, we're still here, alive, and doing well! Sealed road, shed deck completion, citizenship, new chooks, and hopefully new calves on the way... Cheers!

Winter 2010

Winter equinox has passed, bring on longer days! New road, new dam and new design for the main house! Registered ecohaustas as a business. Graham completed his Resident Building Design Certificate and is pursuing building design and drafting work.

Top Bar Beehives

Issue 18 Green Magazine contains an article In Praise of Bees about beekeeping - in particular about top bar beehives and their advantages over traditional hives. This sparked my interest, since bees are doing it bad with all the human intervention in natural eco-systems. So, I built one using the golden mean beehive plan! Maybe you will too...

Straw Bale 2.0

I read this great short article on straw bale bricks. We think it's an very innovative idea! Wish we had worked with a product like this - seems it could make building a straw bale structure much faster and less labor intensive. Check out Oryzatech, the company that produces them.

G'day! Welcome to ecohaus.tasmania

Welcome to our website journaling the building of our eco-friendly and sustainable property in Franklin, Tasmania, Australia (click for a quick trip). Our goals are to build an energy efficient residence, develop sustainable living systems, gather and share green building technologies and just have some fun along the journey. After spending 2 years volunteering on various straw bale projects (Airstream Travels) in the USA, Graham and Troy decided to make roots in Franklin, Tasmania and practice lessons learnt through our travels. Please enjoy our website!