Welcome to Spider Spring!

Here is the one acre piece of land we bought recently. On the first morning, waking up on our very own property, I spied a tiny web just outside our tent. It was perfect in construction and it's wee tenant sat perfectly in the middle. I watched the sneaky little lady sitting in her perfect home, waiting for the perfect meal. She did not seem worried that we pitched an orange tent right next to her. I thought of Robert Frost's perfect little poem and the name, Spider Spring flew around for awhile and then stuck.

We dance round in a ring and suppose,
But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.
-- Robert Frost


We plan to build a small complex of little buildings mainly out of Oregon Cob. (See previous blog on our cob oven!) We are planning to use earthbag, cob and natural plasters to sculpt forest "outbuildings", a secret sactuary in the woods.


This is our road, our neighborhood.




Here's looking onto the property from the road.

This is the "trail" leading back off the road.




We have natural springs on the property. This is what we thought was the entrance to the main spring, but it could be a seepage spring, or consentrated upslope a little ways. We'll have to dig around.


Two reasons why we want to limit our overall digging:

Bleeding Heart

Sword Fern



Nathan on The Land.



Look up! Not much sun for solar. Sadly, a few trees will need to be cut for building space and materials.

Home Sweet Home:


And the view from the tent:


We have preliminary driveway plans. It doesn't cut into the buildable area and it only goes back 75 feet:



One more person is happy about the purchase of this land.

She LOVES it!

More to come! We're heading out tomorrow to dig around for springs and do soil testing for clay!