Here is the eco house that Nico is building for his mother. He went on a training course, built himself a wood cabin to live in, and got started. The next door neighbour brings him organic meals and talks about her grandchildren and her great grandchildren and education and other things, makes sure he is alright - and he makes sure she is alright.
The eco hamlet started by accident. A family bought a plot of land to build a house, but when they put in the planning application, the local council changed its mind and inisisted the land be used for a small housing estate or not at all. So the owner divided the land up into 4 plots, and advertised it for people wanting to build ecological houses, with the values that go with it. Voila, eco hamlet is born - smaller garden, more finance for building the house.
When we arrived to visit the site, my first thought was 'this is the way to live'. No fences and burglar alarms, harmonious unsprayed flowers melding one garden into the next, a sense of peace, individual freedom, opportunity for community.
I couldn't believe Nico was doing all the carpentry himself, and he wrote back
'Of course I'm doing it myself - it's like a great big mechano construction. The important thing is to like what you do, the competence to do it follows naturally'.
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