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How Not To Build Your Community Home
It's a scene right out of Tolkien. Elves and gnomes must have come out of the mist to create these dwellings--curved cottages of tree poles and cedar shakes, sculpted earthen walls, convoluted stone foundations. Roofs curve and soar like fronds or bird wings; some are topped by grass or moss. They rise like mushrooms in a 12-acre meadow on a ridge in northwest Washington, surrounded by a fir and cedar forest that looks west across the Skagit River Valley to Puget Sound and the Olympic Mountains beyond. Amidst conifers, apple orchards, berry patches, and vegetable gardens, the structures in this Ecotopian fantasy world were not built by elves and dwarves at all, but bySunRay Kelly