The Lammas ecovillage and Simon's "Hobbit House" that he had build are truely an inspiration to me. I live in Eastern Oklahoma in the United States and I decided last year to try to buy land outright, even just an acre, and build a hill house in order to become more self-suffient, live low-impact and better provide for my three kids. I first came across Simon's house while doing research on hill houses or earth houses and the article lead me to the Lammas website and I have now watched every episode. It is all really inspiring to me to do my best to get this done for me and my kids. The only thing keeping it from happening right now is buying the land because land prices here in my region are very high. I'm also having to do extensive research on building codes and how they will apply to an earth house built from the straw bales and such since they aren't build like a modern home. Keep your fingers crossed for me that my dream gets to become a reality. Best wishes and much love to everyone at Lammas and everyone around the world who are trying to live lightly on Mother Earth.

Firstly, congradulations on a wonderful site and for documenting your progress... it's inspirational.

I am a member of The Eden Land Movement Australia, our aim is to create a low impact permaculture settlement. The problems we are facing is dealing with council regulations. We don't have planning guidance for low-impact developments available to us and it seems that we are starting from scratch here.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated,

cheers

Lou