Dune Croft
We are currently working on this project in the Park Ecovillage Findhorn, Scotland.
It is a self-sufficient, off-grid dwelling that meets all its needs for water, power and sewage and a significant portion of its occupant’s nutritional needs through food growing in greenhouses and outside. Food growing will follow organic and permaculture principles and integrate cycles of water and nutrients with the dwelling.
Power will be provided by a wind turbine as this is the only way to source reliable, year-round renewable energy in Scotland (and on this location without access to hydropower).
The project follows the Nature House (Naturhus in Swedish) model of a dwelling constructed within a greenhouse(s) to make use of several key benefits, like passive solar gain to keeping the house warm, food growing or cohabitation of plants and people.