Several volunteers spent time in August readying the house, work shop and property for sale. After weeks of poor visibility, the air quality had improved enough that by Monday Sept 27th,  a photographer was able to get good drone shots of the property. The interior of the house was photographed and all images are now

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For purposes of organizing the House and Workshop project (formerly “barn”), we’ve broken things down into three somewhat arbitrary phases. Phase one dealt with bringing both buildings to the property, siting their locations, building footings and foundations and in the case of the house, framing up the ground story and then finally lowering both buildings.

There is still a need for volunteers of all skill sets: labourers, trades people, and food prep people. Please don’t hesitate to contact    info@modana.dhamma.org  if you have the time and interest in helping out!

Forms, Footings and Fun … Tuesday:  Due to a dearth of available rental forms, we’ll be building the forms with 1 x 8’s and 2 x 4’s, with a plan to re-use all the materials for the house forms. This requires some mental gymnastics by the design crew to make best use of any and

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