Eco features

What eco features does the lodge have?

• Made from locally sourced materials.  
• Hand made mud bricks.
• Passive solar design - sun comes right into the building in winter.  Summer sun is excluded.
• Thick mudbrick walls keep lodge warm in winter, cooler in summer.
• Organic materials used in construction. 
• Terracotta floors store heat in winter, radiate coolness in summer as sun is excluded.
• Eaves and roof angle efficient for solar principles.
• Recycling of guest rubbish encouraged, eg hens eat left over food, compost vegetable scraps, recycle glass.
• North facing.
• Septic system reuses water for trees.
• Bird and fauna encouraged by garden planting of Grampian and Australian plants.
• Low energy lights.
• Clothes dryer racks on back verandah, efficient and fast.
• Efficient wood heating in log fire stove.
• Instant water heating by LPG gas.