Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania

Some random pics from the Fair yesterday. It’s an absolutely wonderful event. I’m finding a ton of interesting things here. For anyone interested in building, farming, homesteading, doing stuff for selves, there are countless items, ideas, demonstrations, lots of speakers on a variety of subjects.

I had 2-300 people at my Tiny Homes on the Move event yesterday. Biggest crowd I’ve ever had, and we had fun. They were with me or rather, they were with the builders/owners of these nomadic homes. A lotta rapport.

About Lloyd Kahn

Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include Shelter, Shelter II (1978), Home Work (2004), Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008), Tiny Homes (2012), and Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:

4 Responses to Mother Earth News Fair in Pennsylvania

  1. Lloyd,
    few links, thought might interest you.

    Wood Gasification
    http://modernfarmer.com/2014/09/%ef%bf%bcwood-gasification/

    How to Set Up a Home Generator
    http://modernfarmer.com/2014/01/set-home-generator/

    How to Find the Right Solar Panel for You
    http://modernfarmer.com/2014/04/exploring-solar-system/

    How to Chop Wood
    http://modernfarmer.com/2013/12/chop-wood/

    A Backyard Wind Farm of Your Very Own
    http://modernfarmer.com/2013/10/backyard-wind-farms/

    On Eating Roadkill, the Most Ethical Meat
    http://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/eating-roadkill/

    Here’s the Front cover for current Issue of Magazine they produce,
    Gotta say, it looks Interesting.
    http://modernfarmer.com/magazine/issue-7-winter-20142015/

  2. Tinker's Bubble
    film about the beautiful Tinker's Bubble, the oldest community of its kind.
    The off-grid community of Tinker’s Bubble in England is the longest standing low impact eco-village in the UK. For 21 years, an eclectic mix of individuals and families have lived here, isolated from the system

    http://www.trueactivist.com/inside-the-uks-oldest-green-community-and-why-we-should-all-be-living-this-way/

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinker's_Bubble

    http://naturalhomes.org/tinkersbubble.htm

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