Note about the Posts: Yurt Living posts have specific updates about the yurt. Family Update posts are for the grandparents. You are welcome to read either. Pre-2011 posts are just travel posts.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

Yurt Updates: Moving Earth


Juan and Jenny are our advisors on how to fix the surface water run off problem that we had on our property. We were taking too much surface water from our neighbor and Juan and Jenny were able to fix this by creating a natural drainage canal without concete. It was great to find someone who had a solution that incorporated earth material instead of shoving more concrete barriers on it. Then they put three more canals on our lot below and created a drainage terrace. We are using organic solutions for erosion control like planting ornamental bamboos, various grasses and mani. They have prepared our surface for construction beautifully and we are quite pleased with their work. Here is a link to Jenny's information. http://www.communitycarbontrees-costarica.com/who_we_are.php

2 comments:

Mike said...

Hi there, did you ever construct your yurt? We are in CR and would love an update or to even come see it sometime. There are so many people down here that say it should not/cannot be one..

Mike said...

..be done!