Is anyone in this community interesting in hearing about and/or collaborating with me and my grandaughter to document and share the learning we're experiencing during our Hutting adventure?
When we first started looking, as a family, to buy some land and build a hut we thought this would be all about, well, buying some land and building a hut. Over the next few months we learned more about Hutting via the 1000 Huts event earlier this year and started to look for ‘some land’ which became looking for ‘a wood’. We learned about Scottish land reform aiming to put land to better public use and broader ownership, reforesting https://reforestingscotland.org/what-we-do/the-reforesting-scotland-vision/ and rewilding Scotland and the principles of permaculture https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permaculture.
In amongst this time we went into lockdown. We started to look at what ‘school’ at home could be like, and wondering what kids will need to fit them for the uncertainties of the coming months and years. My granddaughter, Mischa and I looked at her curriculum to see what subjects buying a wood and building a hut would cover. Turns out all of them and a few more, for example, project management, team leadership and working, financial planning, research.
And along came https://creativebraveryfestival.com/, a festival planned for a week in September, who's vision is to reimagine education by: taking risks, paying attention, collaboration, embracing the uncomfortable, making it up as you go along, creating despite fear, looking to the future.
We’ve storyboarded our plan and are at the finding a wood stage at Bolton Muir in East Lothian. And we’re starting to design the initial huts and oh yes, Mischa is practicing her woods-woman skills.
We'd love to hear from anyone else who's interested in this journey...
I'd start a Facebook page about your journey, then those interested should be able to find it, best fake diploma site review will also be able to help you setup your fb page and will make you more popular.
Hi Scott, that's great, will watch out for the email.
Lorna
Hi Lorna, read your posting this morning (sorry I missed it) and realised that we're neighbours (in the woodland sense). I'm planning to circulate an email to the other owners on the subject of working together on hutting plans, so it'll be great to get a conversation going. Best regards. Scott
That's lovely thanks, and yes please, happy to share and involve others
https://www.facebook.com/1422755391/videos/pcb.10225307454259691/10225307443419420/
This is the loveliest, most inspiring thing I've seen for ages. Thank you for posting! I'll share this thread on the huts Facebook page and see if we can bring more people in.
Hi all, check out the video my grandughter and I did, we only managed to recored the first half, we might be able to repeat the Q&A second half, if so I'll post. Note our shout out to 1000 huts :-)
Hi thanks, I've reached out to a couple of people on the map but not heard anything yet. And I've met up (virtually) with a social enterprise lead who are looking to set up a community on Mull and an architect who's keen to advise us, and encouraging us to be a bit different and imaginative with our design and materials. We're now looking at how to connect with forrest schools folks. It's amazing once you start to look, how many like minded and open hearted people there are !
Hi Lorna and Mischa, really enjoyed reading your post and seeing how you're going about this. I think you'll conquer everything you come across!
There's so much that your journey links with, like forest schools, self-build, confidence building and reconnection with the land. Not sure where you're based but the recently published google map of hut sites might be useful in terms of finding those nearby on a similar journey to share knowledge, ideas, labour etc. (You'll find the map in one of the general discussion headings.)
Be great to hear more as your journey develops.
I'd start a Facebook page about your journey, then those interested should be able to find it. It's tough going trying to find like-minded others outside of social media nowadays as it seems to be the default place to go. Good luck and enjoy your journey. 😊