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The Satyr and The Nymph Sustainable Homestead

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Commenced:	01/10/2012
Submitted:	13/05/2014
Last updated:	07/10/2015
Location:	Lot 2 Huon Hwy, Surges Bay, Tasmania, AU
Phone:	0488278870
Website:	http://thesatyrandthenymph.wordpress.com/
Climate zone:	Cold Temperate

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The Satyr and The Nymph Sustainable Homestead

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Rural

Project Summary

To live sustainably and renewably with our large family of 6

Project Description

We lost everything we had built up on the mainland of Australia, we were living a consumer heavy lifestyle, we were still mindfull of our excess and throw away and recycled/grew what and where we could, but when we lost our business we decided it was now or never to realize our dream and goal to live self sufficiently and sustainably on our own property, we purchased 10 acres in the Deep south of Tasmania in Oct of 2012 and since then have been slowly making the journey towards true independance and a more permacultured lifestyle, We are a family of 6 My wife and our 4 kids make up the numbers of our clan.

The aim of our project is to live sustainably with a family as large as ours and to impart our knowledge onto others so they too can continue to grow this wonderful ideal called permaculture. We both study via distance, the wife is studying an Advanced Diploma in western Herbal medicines and I am studying 2 Diplomas, one in Interactive gaming and mobile phone applications as well as a Diploma of Permaculture run via Distance through the Riverina Institute, I would have loved to do Geoffs online PDC but being on as little an income as we are I could not afford it. So follow us on our journey, hopefully join us on our property for some hands on experiences and make friends for life.

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