Textile artist / Permaculture Food Forester / Bespoke crochet / Repurposed materials / Wearable Art

Recent adventures and fun times assembling yurts and being tourists in Basque Country.

Collaborative stair building from recycled roof tiles, wall cement and slate flooring. In beautiful Olabe, Basque Country.

Cooking salad greens in Basque Country. Healthy dandelion, stinging nettles and lamb’s lettuce recipe.

Kiwifruit pie recipe, delicious lemon orange zest filling. Hour and a half to prepare, refreshing served next day cold with custard.

Our main building project at Olabe is now complete! Finishing up the yurt and working out the kinks in our yurt assembly process took about a week in total. You can read about the first few days of the project in my previous post. After the frame was up, there were four layers of weatherproofing/aesthetic coverings

My partner and I have been busy assembling a yurt in the Basque Country. We picked up a few tips and ideas you might want to consider if you are starting out on your first yurt building project. It has been a challenging week to get the project completed. The yurt arrived in many pieces