For the last eighteen years, the beautiful Laguna Earth House has operated as a permaculture property and teaching centre. It includes exquisite hand-crafted earth, straw-bale, cob and mudbrick buildings, extensive gardens and orchards, poultry runs, a smoke house, wood fired pizza oven and a fish/aquaponics system. Less than 2 hours from Sydney, it has 2 dams, 60,000 litres of tank water, a 4 kilowatt solar system, solar hot water, ADSL internet, composting toilets, sheds, workshops and studio spaces suitable for guests or Air B&B. It provides lots of options for making an offgrid livelihood.

The earth buildings are designed with passive heating and cooling principles for four season comfort without the need for excessive additional heating or cooling. The straw-bale keeps the house wonderfully cool in summer and warm in winter. The surrounding deciduous trees provide deep shade in summer while allowing the winter sun to heat the oiled earthen floors. The organic gardens include wicking beds, beehives, covered orchards and vegetable gardens, and over 30 species of fruit and nut trees. With 3 acres of valley floor, the property has been home to pigs, goats, ducks and chickens. The remaining 40 acres is spectacular native bush with carpets of rock orchids and grass trees, caves and ledges, and copious numbers of kangaroos, possums, wombats, koalas, lyre birds, yellow-tail black cockatoos and many other bird species the Valley is known for.

For further details of the possibilities on this homesteading property see
https://www.facebook.com/lagunaearthhouse/

Local information:
The highly sought after Laguna Primary School is 10 minutes drive away with a preschool another 5 mins along the road in Wollombi Village.

This is a vibrant local community, with an extraordinary range of cultural and sporting activities as well as great local cafes.

Land size: 16.86 Hectares