Homegrown STRAWBALE, SOLAR & ELECTRIC CAR
SOMETIMES in life an opportunity presents itself and you just have to jump right in. That happened to me one ordinary day in 2008. My husband-to-be David Potter, casually pointed up a hill on his sheep, grain and cattle farm and said: “I’d like to build a strawbale house up there one day”.
That was it. That was the one sentence, and my “Yes!” reply, that launched us into the most exciting, terrifying, rewarding and challenging project we’d ever undertaken. We built ourselves a 400 m 4 bedroom 2 bathroom strawbale house, completely off-grid, with full solar-passive design and using a
