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1 Oct

Started with changing the roof……

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Started with changing the roof and remodeling the main building just to make it habitable. Funds are still scarce, the option taken here is to rely strictly on a local team to do this. A bit scared though about what will happen at this fist step with the great, hard eco-principles. We will go back to Nicolas Godelet, our guiding architect, when it will come to go behind mere survival….. Happy to provide work to people who have chosen to stay in Wulong, the village of which YUANZICUN hamlet is depending.

30 Jul

Family Bootcamp……very first start

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8 Feb

Learn About DONGCHUAN

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DONGCHUAN is a district of Kunming.  It used to be a key producer of copper in the ancient and modern times.  The altitude there varies from 1200  to 3900 meters.  The highest point is displayed on the pictures here taken at JIAOZIXUESHAN (the snow mountain of the sedan chair).  DONGCHUAN  is also famous for its   so called “red soils” with a famous scenic spot, HONGTOUDI.  The farmnhouse is close to HONGTOUDI and located at 1800 m.

see : “http://www.5.cn/magazine/6495/9544/?from=timeline&isappinstalled=0#rd”