On my travels I have found that the best way to meet local people is to talk to local people. When you’ve met one person then they can recommend another person and so a chain of introductions is created. When I visited Joe Polaischer of Rainbow Valley Farm, it happened that I was sent by a friend of mine to see him and so in turn he sent me to see a friend of his. Graeme North, the pre-eminent practitioner of eco-architecture in New Zealand, just happened to live down the road. Graeme has been building with rammed earth, mud brick, cob and hay bales for over 30 years in New Zealand. There are examples of his work all over the country and unbeknownst to me I had actually been staying in one of them. By a strange coincidence it turns out that Graeme had been a consultant on the building of Laura and Darren’s straw bale house on Waiheke Island.
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